Job Description
Title: Production Planner – 12-month contract
Location: 24 Napoleon Road, Barrie (hybrid)
Reporting to: Production Control Manager
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Firm and release work orders, performing material availability checks
- Review early/late reports to ensure all open work orders are accurate and current
- Monitor capacity requirements
- Communicate daily with Sales, Production Planners, Senior Planners, Team Leaders, Supervisors, Manufacturing Managers and Purchasing regarding parts issues and priorities
- Request overtime, part production transfers to other facilities or outsourcing as needed to manage bottlenecks
- Maintain planning information in ERP system
- Maintain resource calendars in ERP system
- Coordinate down time recovery plans
- Monitor production part inventories and make adjustments accordingly; perform root cause analysis and find solutions for recurri...