Production Planner

**Job Profile**
Reporting to the Director of Planning and Scheduling, the Production planner is responsible for planning and scheduling upcoming orders on the right assets considering the Customers’ requested delivery date, production capacity and the communicated lead-time. He/she will be working with all department partners like production, sales, Logistics and product development ensuring that scheduling is meeting customers’ request while production change overs are well optimized.
**Responsibilities**
- Proficient at planning and preparing production schedules for manufacturing based on orders’ delivery requirements while optimizing production lines’ change over sequence.
- Daily duties will include creating and tracking production versus planned orders, monitoring priorities and delivery dates and expediting if necessary.
- Ability to grasp operational requirements and adjust the plans accordingly. Being flexible while striking a business balance between customers’ needs and production optimization
- Solve problems and develop corrective actions for process failures related to Manage the production planning to ensure timely delivery of parts to customers.
- Act as a liaison between all the departments and monitor the progress of the production and strategic plan.
- Liaise with sales division to determine customer requirements and promptly informed the relevant departments of changes to current production schedules.
- Promptly addressed and resolved production issues to minimize delays in production.

**Requirements**:

- University Degree in a relevant major, preferably chemical, or industrial Engineering.
- 3 to 5 years minimum of experience in a manufacturing environment with at least 2 years production planning and inventory management with a track record of results
- Experience/Knowledge in Plastic film manufacturing is a real asset.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Solid computer skills (Office suite mainly Excel and Access, ERP) and ability to extract the data and analyze it in depth using different methods like pivot tables
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Highly self-disciplined, detailed and results oriented.
- Must have flexible schedule and willingness to monitor and support all assigned production processing with comprehensive and quick response solutions.
- Can work under pressure in a very agile environment

**Company Profile**
Balcan Innovations, founded in 1967, with multiple plants in Canada and some operations in the US, is a leading North American private producer of flexible packaging and laminated films. The company offers solutions to a wide-range of industries including construction, food and beverage, agricultural and horticultural, chemicals, and many more. The products portfolio of Balcan Innovations includes roofing shingle overwrap, laminated bags, bales, wraps, barrier protection, stretch film, stand-up pouches, tubular films, valve bags, and specialty films.
With its vertically integrated operations including printing, extrusion, lamination and converting, Balcan, throughout the years, has maintained above-average margins and stable long-term revenue growth. The company has positioned itself to meet the growing demand for flexible packaging and is aiming for strengthening its leader position with continued growth, organically and through acquisitions.
Balcan is striving to be the North American leader in custom film and flexible packaging and fulfill its mission to deliver high quality, sustainable film and flexible packaging that protects and promotes its customers’ products.

Work Location: In person