Lead, Production Planner

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets - passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment - Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

**Job Purpose**:
Under the authority of the Facilities lead, working closely with the purchasing, the prototyping and engineering team, the production planner acts as an intermediary between a company's project management and engineering team and the prototyping unit. He is required to adapt to stock and lead time constraints: must plan the prototyping to be started in relation to the development of the engineering and the availability of materials and meet customer expectations.

**Job Duties and Responsibilities**:
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Draw up prototyping production schedules and comply with them as strictly as possible (time and material);
- Reduce surpluses and stock shortages by optimizing inventory management and lowering costs;
- Work closely with program managers (operations) and technical managers (engineering) on project planning and monitoring.
- Launch production (prototyping) and supply requests considering the engineering readiness, size of orders, manufacturing and delivery times;
- Create the production jobs in the ERP system and launch the jobs in collaboration with the prototyping manufacturing lead.
- In collaboration with the buyers team, maintain an up-to-date and orderly inventory of mechanical and electrical parts, tools and equipment;
- Ensure that the impacts of BOM changes in work in progress or for future productions requested by engineering department are adequately communicated to production, sub-contractors and purchasing departments;
- In collaboration with prototyping production, quality and sub-contractors teams, organize the work to ensure traceability of components;
- Any other related tasks.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineer diploma or equivalent;
- 5 years of experience in a similar position;
- Capacity to estimate estimated production times as well as possible risks, possible delays and the additional costs that these could generate;
- Capability to use SAP to anticipate the maximum storage time of different materials while considering production constraints;
- Ability to react quickly to accelerate or slow down the production rate according to circumstances
- High availability to deal with various contingencies;
- Experience in automotive mechanics (electric vehicles an asset);
- Good knowledge of electrical equipment: conduits, junction box, wiring, fasteners, tools, harnesses, etc.;
- Ability to read engineering drawings;
- Comfortable with the Office suite, especially with Excel and Outlook;
- Knowledge of SAP ERP software would be an advantage;
- Autonomy, meticulousness and resourcefulness;
- Good organizational skills;
- Speed of execution;
- Bilingualism

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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