Production Planner / Transactions
Production Planner / Transactions
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This is a position with grade
17
This position reports to
Production Scheduler
Your role and responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of Planning and Execution Services, the Production Planner is primarily responsible for translating customer orders and sales forecasts into a production schedule. They ensure the accuracy of planning based on the receipt of raw materials while optimizing the use of equipment and labor.
You will also take on a specialist role in transactions. You will be responsible for tracking all material movements, both incoming and outgoing. This includes validating the accuracy of transactions while ensuring you understand and explain usage variances on work orders.Additionally, you will need to understand and master the transactional invoicing process for all shipments made from the plant.
This role contributes to the ABB Electrification, Installation Products Division and is based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. The work model is 100% on-site, Monday to Friday, during daytime hours.
Responsibilities:- For the work cells under your responsibility, develop optimized production schedules based on sales forecasts, customer order priorities, labor availability, and equipment availability.
- Quickly respond to and integrate new information provided by sales, customer service, or operations teams and adjust the production plan accordingly. Communicate production issues daily to the appropriate departments.
- Complete production reports and efficiently manage performance indicators.
- Participate in the transactional process to ensure that usage declarations are made on work orders. Conduct analysis and provide explanations for usage variances on work orders.
- Participate and contribute with the cycle counting team to identify improvement opportunities to understand and reduce usage variances on work orders.
- Master the transactional process related to the receipt of goods to ensure they are properly received in our system.
- Master the transactional invoicing process for orders to support the shipping department.
- University or college degree in a relevant field such as Operations Management, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, etc.
- Excellent customer service and strong ability to follow up and strictly meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated skills in autonomy, rigor, meticulousness, and decision-making.
- Strong planning and priority management abilities to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Adaptability to a rapidly changing environment.
- Knowledge of SAP, KBM, Excel, Outlook, and Teams software.
- Bilingualism (French - English)
- Retirement plan
- Healthcare plan
- Accident insurance
- Wellbeing program
More about us
****Referral bonus premium $1,500.00****
ABB Installation Products Division (formerly Thomas&Betts),is the number one manufacturer of electrification products in North America with a 125-year history of providing innovation and customer- focused solutions for connecting and protecting electrical systems, as well as a unique differentiated medium voltage offering.Our products are used all around you, every day – orbiting the earth, working on Mars, on the fastest trains we ride, in the fastest cars of the world, crossing oceans, in factories producing your food, in the tallest buildings of the world, in the most modern hotels and in the walls of your home.
With a portfolio of more than 200,000 products marketed under more than 38 premium brand names, our Division offerings are found wherever electricity is used.
We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.
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