Specialist, Ppds Planning

Facility Location
- Richmond

Work Location - Richmond

Posting Locations - Richmond

Department - Planning Richmond

Job Function - Supply Chain

Employee Type - Regular Employee FT Salaried

**About Us**:
**Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling**

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love. We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

**About This Opportunity**:
The (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling) PPDS Specialist sets the short-term direction for the manufacturing facility, balancing the service requirements of the business, the plant’s Unconstrained System Line Efficiency (USLE) targets, the space requirements of our DCs and target inventory levels. This pivotal role will set the 2 week production schedule for the facility along with issuing the material requirements to ensure schedule completion. The rolling schedule will link back to the 13 week plan set by the Regional Planning Manager. The PPDS Specialist will have strong analytical skills to monitor both production execution and actual demand, with the expectation to adjust the schedule to mitigate service risk within well-defined planning parameters. The PPDS Specialist must have excellent verbal & written communication skills to ensure alignment to the set plan.

The PPDS Specialist reports directly to the Manager, Regional Planning along with a strong dotted line to the site Plant Manager.

This position is based in the Richmond production facility.

**Responsibilities**:

- Creates detailed 2 weeks production schedules for the assigned plant production lines, taking into account all the external factors availability of materials, plant Unconstrained System Line Efficiency (USLE) rates, maintenance schedules, storage resources, actual demand) and linking back to the 13 week ESP plan.
- Actively participates as part of the Plant Management team, acting as a main liaison with Supply Planning. Takes part in the daily Manufacturing meetings and leads upcoming weekly production schedule meeting.
- Adjusts production schedules in order to address real-time business issues by monitoring system generated warnings.
- Defines, reviews and requests necessary changes with the parameters established in the system (warning profiles, prioritization matrix, order cycles, etc.).
- Coordinates with the Production Manager/Plant Manager all planning parameters, settings and rules.
- Coordinates actions with Demand Planning, Raw Material Planning, Transportation and Warehouses. Analyzes, identifies and communicates potential out of stock situations. Develops preventive measures to address the situations with support of the Regional Planning Manager.
- Identifies slow, not moving and outdates stocks of finished products.
- Supports the Planning Department in preparation of the Annual Business Plan.

**Qualifications**:

- University Degree in Engineering, Business, Technology or Supply Chain
- Strong knowledge of logistics principles and manufacturing operations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong Organizational & Analytical skills
- At least 5 years of experience in production planning, raw materials, packaging and deployment of goods
- Strong influencing skills

**Additional requirements**:

- Strong knowledge of products lineup and plant capability
- Knowledge of production, distribution, and supply processes
- Ability to work in dynamic environment balancing multiple priorities

**Important**:
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.