Savaria Concord Lifts

Savaria designs, engineers and manufactures products to help people gain personal mobility. We make a range of accessibility lifts and wheelchair accessible vans. We also produce elevators- from basic to luxurious - for select commercial applications and for home use.

All of our products are made with the goal of helping people move – whether it’s to improve mobility issues or to simply make life easier. By listening to each customer’s unique mobility needs, we’re able to provide individualized solutions – whether it is for health reasons or just personal preferences.

Savaria is the company that brings personal mobility solutions to your life: in the home, in a vehicle and in public spaces.

PRODUCTION PLANNER

Summary:

Assures customer and production requirements are satisfied by performing the following duties;

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plans and schedules workflow for each department and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
• Analyses of future production capacity, monitors current production performance against plan, and regularly reports progress and constraints.
• Generates and issues daily/weekly work orders for all departments in the plant.
• Strong focus on mitigating delays in the schedule through close partnership with line managers, suppliers, and leadership team.
• Performs early missing material analysis to ensure jobs are ready-to-build before they hit the production line – mitigate missing items through follow up and collaboration with feeder cells or Purchasing.
• Create and publish visual, aligned production schedule for the plant to understand daily production requirements at the cellular and assembly level.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement and implements appropriate initiatives.
• Confers with department supervisors to determine status of assigned projects.
• Leads in the development of productivity improvements within Production and Inventory Control, through process optimization and planning.
• Monitors supplier delivery performance and initiates corrective actions with the Purchasing Manager as required.
• Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Assigns effective change dates on Engineering Change Orders, mitigating obsolescence exposure.
• Prepares production reports using MRP reports/system data.
• Prepares/maintains order production/delivery schedule.
• Assist in physical inventory count/reconciliation.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related field coupled with five or more years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Direct experience with hands-on planning within a custom-built, high volume production facility with both internal- and external suppliers.

Computer Skills:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must have knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and Strong knowledge of ERP systems (Baan, ManManx or MK a plus)

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• CPIM designation or working towards.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Superior communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Detailed oriented and driven to get answers and alignment from various departments: Parts, Engineering, R&D, Production, Purchasing, etc.
• Ability to break complex production schedules into more manageable sections useable by cell leaders and employees.
• Strongly accountable to delivering on promises, despite unforeseen circumstances.

The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to describe the principle functions of the job identified, and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work required inherent in the job.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $60,000.00-$65,000.00 per year

The health and safety of all Savaria employees is our number one priority. Please be aware that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as a condition of commencing any role, you will be required to self-report your vaccination status and provide verifying documentation. Should you require medical or religious accommodation related to vaccination please discuss with our talent acquisition team.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $60,000.00-$65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Vision care

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• plant management: 1 year (preferred)
• production management: 1 year (preferred)

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