Production Planner / Transactions

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This position reports to

Production Scheduler

Your role and responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Planning and Execution, the Production Planner is primarily responsible for translating customer orders and sales forecasts into a production schedule. Ensuring the accuracy of planning based on the receipt of raw materials while optimizing the use of equipment and labor. You will also assume a specialist role in transactions. Therefore, you will be responsible for the transactional tracking of all material movements, both incoming and outgoing. Validate the accuracy of transactions while ensuring understanding and explanation of usage variances on work orders. You will also need to understand and master the transactional billing process for all shipments made from the factory. • Participate in the transactional process to ensure usage declarations are made on work orders. Analyze 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 correctly received in our system. • Master the transactional billing process for orders to support the shipping department. • For the work cells under your responsibility, develop optimized production schedules based on sales forecasts, customer order priorities, labor availability, and equipment availability. • Quickly react to and integrate new information provided by the sales, customer service, or operations teams and adjust the production plan accordingly. Communicate production issues to the appropriate departments daily. • Complete production reports and manage performance indicators effectively.

Qualifications for the role

• University or college degree in a relevant field such as operations and logistics management, supply chain management, etc.
• Excellent customer service skills and strong ability to follow up and meet tight deadlines.
• Able to demonstrate the following skills: autonomy, rigor, attention to detail, and ease in decision-making.
• Strong planning and priority management skills 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). French is required. English is necessary to communicate with clients outside Quebec on a regular basis.

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

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. For the ninth consecutive year, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. Consistently ranked as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Best Employers, Canada's Best Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and a long-time recipient of the Women in Governance Parity Certification, ABB's culture and commitment is to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces.