Production Planner

**JOB TITLE: Production Planner**

**Location: Mississauga**

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**Why you should come work with the Romet Team**:

- **We offer market competitive salaries.**:

- **Annual bonus plan**:

- **100% company paid benefits.**:

- **Group retirement plan.**:

- **Training opportunities**:

- **Social events, a great team and more**

ROMET Limited was founded in 1972. Today, Romet is an international market leader that provides end-to-end measurement solutions to natural gas utilities across the globe by providing best-in-class technologies to meet our customers' needs now and 20 years from now. Our technological platforms are designed to seamlessly provide customer-centric measurement solutions. Our mission is centered on customer satisfaction through responsive deliveries, technical support and customer service that is matched with rugged and reliable products, manufactured with uncompromising quality, accuracy, and safety requirements. We will continue developing innovative technologies within the natural gas industry, promoting efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective energy solutions.

Romet is a collaborative organization where talent is combined with experience to drive our business toward success. This is made possible by the work ethic, creativity and passion of our team members and their continued commitment to delivering customer satisfaction. Our team is truly diverse with different areas of expertise and backgrounds, all guided by a team of experienced and innovative leaders. Romet has been recognized as a Platinum winner for Best Managed Companies in Canada for seven consecutive years.

For the right person this is an exciting opportunity to be developed and invested in to become an integral member of the Order Management team. We are looking for a highly motivated, focused, and outgoing person who wants to springboard their career with a thriving manufacturing company. You will be provided with the coaching and training needed throughout the onboarding and orientation process that will build from your base of skills acquired from your past experiences.

You will learn our business during your training with our experts in Order Management, Engineering, and Operations.

If you are excited at the prospect of joining an award-winning, high growth, technically relevant organization this may be the opportunity for you.

**GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY**:
Reporting directly to the Manager, Order Management, the Production Planner will support the scheduling of all production activities within Romet to consistently achieve on time delivery of products and services within the published Romet policies with support of and cross-training with the Master Production Schedulers.

**Key Job Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Assist with demand planning and production scheduling process, support the weekly and long-term production plan through knowledge of capacity, resources, efficiency, and changeover times, etc.
- Convert planned supply orders to executable work order/jobs per the MRP/MPS planning
- Identify discrepancies and mitigate associated risk for meeting committed customer delivery date
- Evaluate and coordinate material requirements to ensure production/customer requirements are met
- Analyze production resource requirements and available resources to ensure production schedules are feasible
- Follow “Clear to Build” (no part shortages) requirements for all daily production planning, and release production orders to the manufacturing floor, monitor work in progress (WIP) on the production floor, and adjust schedule when required due to material shortages or other manufacturing interruptions
- Assist supply chain in establishing accurate inventory levels (min/max) related to sub-assembly in supermarket and Kanban locations, and assist in problem-solving, and executing appropriate countermeasures for deviations from planned inventory levels (min/max stocking violations)
- Monitor critical process bottlenecks and adjust job scheduling to minimize excess WIP levels
- Prepare production packages and distribute them to supervisors, materials team, and command center
- Print BOM’s, finishing drawings, and work order documentation
- Participate in daily production walks and standup meetings
- Work closely with production team to expedite requested parts
- Support production scheduling meetings with key stakeholders
- Provide critical information to all stakeholders about where and when orders will not be completed on time and could affect the customer’s committed date
- Generate, track and distribute standardized reports, both internal and external for production scheduling:

- On time to start
- On time shipment - delivery to customer and/or delivery to final assembly
- Aged workorder/job tracking
- Timely forward flushing of inventory during job production
- Back up for Bill of Material and Routing creation and manage specification/attributes as needed
- All other duties as assigned

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