Production Scheduler

Job Posting:
**Wonderbrands**, is a leading North American bakery (formerly Weston Foods, fresh and frozen businesses) with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads, artisan breads, and donuts. We are one of the largest bakeries in North America and makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa.

**Wonderbrands**, a division of FGF Brands, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake.

**Job Location**: Langley, BC

**Job Summary**:
The functional reporting for the
**Production Scheduler** role will be to VP, Supply planning and Optimization. The bakery crew e.g. receivers, cycle counters and line shippers who will be supporting the activities below will be providing support to this position for their portion of responsibilities laid out below.

**Responsibilities**:

- Schedule production at the bakery based on guideline from the central planning team
- Ensuring Cycle counts of all raw materials and packaging items minimum once a period
- Improve inventory accuracy at the bakery to 98%+ (FG,SFG,RM &PM)
- Keep a close eye on expiring materials and delisting materials and work closely with Central Planning team for the “Run Out” plan
- Responsible for addressing Finished goods discrepancies between ELM and SAP
- Escalation of Chronic issues e.g. materials discrepancies higher than the tolerance, process discrepancies within the bakery etc. to Central planning team
- Help Supply planning CI team to have visibility on PPW generated out of the bakery
- Ensuring with the bakery production team that number of mixes reported, FG production numbers (entered by line shippers only) are entered accurately and escalate to bakery manager if there is abnormal discrepancy.
- Any other tasks assigned as per the requirement

**Required Qualification**:

- A bachelor’s degree or diploma in Materials Management, Business or equivalent.

Experience of 2+ years in the same field in lieu of a degree or diploma.

**Core Competencies**:

- Customer and Product Centricity - Responds to the needs of both internal and external customers in a timely and courteous manner, showing a sense of urgency; always keeping our products front and center.
- Flexibility, Agility, Adaptability - Adapts to changes; changes strategy in response to new information; responds appropriately and quickly without having all parameters defined; demonstrate tolerance for speed and uncertainty.
- Team Work and Collaboration - Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods of communication to gain agreement or acceptance of a plan or activity. Is effective in building constructive relationships; uses tact; interacts with others in an open, friendly manner, encourages collaboration.
- Relentless obsession with continuous improvement - Always looks for ways to improve effectiveness or efficiency, making recommendation to increase productivity in quality of work; develops innovative solutions, challenges the status quo. To be the best, never compromising.
- Drives Execution - Takes risks, learn from their mistakes, builds trust and is a role model to others. Has a “hands-on” style; is aggressive in achieving desired results.

If you are excited about this opportunity and love baked goods, we invite you to apply

**Wonderbrands** is committed to fostering a work environment with strong core values that support diversity through various policies, programs and activities that encourage sensitivity and accommodations. Wonderbrands offers employment regardless of race, colour, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Diversity is integral to our success as an organization and we will use diversity as a model to help identify and develop the best talent, create effective teams, and achieve overall excellence. In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct - it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Disclaimer: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge and skills. Please keep in mind that other duties may be added or this description may be amended at any time.

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