Functional Planner

Application Deadline:
- Workplace: Onsite Position- Location: Oakville, ON, CA, L6H 6C9- Contract Type: Full-Time- Working Hours: 40- Employment Type: RegularWould you like to work in an international, innovative organization, where we produce high-quality solutions and are constantly looking to enhance existing and develop new offerings? Are you eager to utilize your expertise in purchasing and take it to the next level? Then we have an interesting position in Grundfos for you.

**What is the job about?**
Grundfos Canada is looking for a Functional Planner/Purchaser for our facility in Oakville, ON.

As a Functional Planner/Purchaser, you will support, and be the owner of, all order handling, planning and purchase requirements.

You will execute global best practices within planning and purchase business processes and ensure compliance to use best practice methods and tools, measurements, and reporting of results in Grundfos.

You will also be responsible for production planning following SIOP process, customer service and deliveries follow up.

**Your main responsibilities**:

- Ensure Master Data of current and new product numbers are correct as well as maintained.
- Ensure order on track to have stock accuracy and realistic planned dates.
- Identify delayed purchase, planned, and production orders and move to new and realistic delivery dates in order to have an accurate plan.
- Share information between production and planning and communicate delays or improvement with order handling.
- Identify missing components for production and move orders with missing components to ensure feasible production schedules are maintained. Actively reschedule production orders and communicate to order handling.
- Ensure the correct picture of the current capacity load and available capacity according to time and pieces is maintained by ensuring routings are realistic and relevant to the product produced.
- Create new production orders to confirm sales orders and ensure component supply. Planned orders which opening period is relevant to the business day should be converted and firmed.
- Convert related purchase requisitions and forward purchase orders to suppliers.
- Ensure order acknowledgements are processed and open purchase orders monitored to meet the required date in the production plan. Send weekly open order requests to key suppliers and follow up on overdue deliveries.
- Check for anonymous stock on customer stock materials and if possible, move requirements or flag that it requires disassembly. Effectively manage excess stock from suppliers.
- Check missing components daily and follow up on delivery.
- Check current purchased items to see if we can do local assembly or build.

**Your background**
We imagine that you have:

- A diploma/certificate in a related field or secondary school degree and equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a purchasing role in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience using an ERP system (we use SAP).
- The ability to use MS Office programs such as Outlook, Word and Excel.
- General knowledge in Logistics and transportation.
- Effective communication and good relationships.

**What’s in it for you?**
What are your goals? Here at Grundfos it’s our mission to help you develop and fulfil your ambitions, both career and personal. We are guided by our six core values, and you’ll find that your fresh ideas will be welcomed and make a difference in everything from local to large-scale global projects. You’ll encounter colleagues from all over the world both as part of your daily work, supporting and all the while broadening each other’s cultural horizons.

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

- Flexible working hours; home office possibility and equipment; up to 3 days’ paid leave for volunteering
- Annual bonuses, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programmes, engaging team buildings
- Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly
- Long-term career development with regular dialogue, as well as continuous learning and development opportunities.

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume and cover letter by clicking “Apply”.

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We look forward to hearing from you.

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**About Grundfos**
Grundfos is one of the world’s leading water technology companies with more than 19.000 employees in 60+ countries all over the world. Our skills commit us to pioneering solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve the quality of life for people. We dare to do things that others cannot or dare not do, as we believe innovation is not only a business opportunity, but an obligation. And what really matters to us is not short term profit, but