Production Planner

October 11, 2024

Donald's Fine Foods

Richmond

FULL TIME

Donald’s Fine Foods is a family-owned business that has operated for over 30 years. We are a specialty meat manufacturer spanning six plants in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan serving both domestic and international markets. We have build our business around our core values.
Company Values

Integrity-Do the right thing in all circumstances. Honesty and transparency in everything we do.
Ethical- Always moving forward with a respectful, fair and equitable approach, promoting sustainable practices.
Creativity-Pursue and achieve innovation with passion, purpose, ingenuity and curiosity.
Responsibility-Be accountable for all our actions, decisions, and results.
Community-Foster a sense of community both within the company and external stakeholders, through engagement, collaboration, and support.

The Production Planner position.
Reporting to VP of Business Development you will be responsible for the day to day production scheduling of Donald's Fine Foods across three manufacturing plants. The incumbent will ensure smooth operations throughout the production and distribution life of our product by creating accurate production planning to meet the sales forecast, ensuring inventory information and levels are accurate and at the optimum rates while working closely with production management to continually improve the efficiency by analyzing data to determine future needs.
Job Responsibilities:

Work in close communication with domestic and export sales departments to build accurate sales forecast
Ensures daily entries into production control system are accurate
Works in collaboration with Plant Managers to establish reasonable inventory levels in order to meet customer demands
Monitors finished goods inventory daily and keeps sales departments informed of changes
Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes, raw materials, tools, and labour requirements
Generates daily production quantity in production control
Communicate with Plant Managers for special production requests
Set up lead time for special order production
Improve existing production control system
Create standard production planning process
Generate accurate and timely production reports for management including the executive team
Generate purchase orders or sales orders when required

Requirements:

Passion to learn, inspire, and lead
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – written/ verbal
Bachelor of Business or equivalent
Superb organizational skills with the ability to multitask and a keen eye for detail
Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) is an asset
Minimum 3 years experience in a production planning role within a manufacturing environment
Computer skills using Microsoft Office especially Excel VLookup and Macro
Will be expected to travel as needed to company subsidiaries, as well as to business partners to conduct due diligence
Ability to add value as an individual contributor and an active team member
Ability to build rapport quickly with key members of the executive team.
Demonstrated ability to react to situations with a strong sense of urgency