About the role
About the Company
GS1 Canada is committed to helping all employees, customers, stakeholders and subscribers in an effective and timely manner by preventing and removing barriers for persons with disabilities. Our policies and practices are intended to foster diversity, inclusiveness and accessibility, while also ensuring that the workplace is free from discrimination and harassment
About the Role
The Production Planner is responsible for overseeing daily and special production schedules, monitoring product flow, managing inventory and capacity, and ensuring operational efficiency across internal and external stakeholders. This role acts as a central coordinator between multiple stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate, and cost-effective production delivery. In the broadest sense, the Production Planner is responsible for the identification and segregation of different tasks that make up the daily schedule, setting milestones and deadlines, and monitoring progress to the defined goals. The internal nomination for this role is "Production Controller"
Responsibilities
- Create and coordinate daily production schedules throughout the day and make necessary adjustments when unexpected situations should arise (sick employee, down equipment, late shipments.
- Responsible for traceability of product movement internally and externally by tracking shipping and incoming inventory.
- Monitor and adjust schedules to optimize product flow and meet deadlines, as well as alert when daily workload cannot be completed and trigger mitigation solutions.
- Track and monitor the daily capacity for each department and employee.
- Identify any bottleneck in overall process and propose improvement ideas including more training for resources.
- Investigate capacity impact on new services or special projects being introduced and ensure proper cost recovery
- Ensure load leveling procedures are maintained by avoiding spikes in daily workload
- Manage a reserve of product inventory. Using this reserve to guarantee very minimal down time
- Track all incoming product shipments via transport websites and ensure they are properly scheduled according to service requests filled out by subscriber (client).
- Track and monitor when shipments are required for return product and/or donations
- Identify any foreseeable risks and obstacles that may impact the daily schedule.
- Prepare contingency plans, provide risk analysis, and have measures in place to address any issues that may arise.
- Ambassador to GS1 to maintain specific Service Level Agreements ( SLA).
Qualific ations
- A bachelor’s degree in planning/scheduling, business management or accounting required.
- 3+ years' experience in a similar scheduling role for operations and/or supply chain management
Required Skills
- This role requires knowledge of both French (Orally expressive, less so in writing) and English, as it involves frequent communication with stakeholders and business partners across Canada, including in provinces where English is the predominant language - Mandatory
- Communication skills: must have excellent verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with a range of stakeholders
- Analytical skills: the controller must be able to gather and analyze complex data to inform decision-making processes.
- Problem-solving skills: Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
- Project management skills: the controller must be able to manage the daily and weekly schedule from start to finish.
- Experience with inventory management, part classification or category profiling.
- Strong organizational and scheduling skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, Power BI, scheduling planning tools.
- A positive, team-oriented attitude with a commitment to continuous learning and professional Development.
About GS1 Canada
GS1, a not-for-profit association, introduced the barcode and enhanced global standards for efficient business communication across the global supply chain. GS1 Canada is one of 116 GS1 Member Organizations worldwide. GS1 has been partnering with the industry globally for over 50 years—even before GS1 introduced the first barcode on a pack of gum in 1974. Today, GS1 barcodes are scanned 10 billion times a day, and GS1 standards are the world's most widely used system of standards.
In Canada, GS1 Canada collaborates with business leaders, industry boards, advisory councils, and industry work groups through its unique community management role to develop standards, guidelines, and non-proprietary business solutions. Partnering with industry, GS1 Canada provides education and implementation support to subscribers of all sizes across multiple sectors.
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About the role
About the Company
GS1 Canada is committed to helping all employees, customers, stakeholders and subscribers in an effective and timely manner by preventing and removing barriers for persons with disabilities. Our policies and practices are intended to foster diversity, inclusiveness and accessibility, while also ensuring that the workplace is free from discrimination and harassment
About the Role
The Production Planner is responsible for overseeing daily and special production schedules, monitoring product flow, managing inventory and capacity, and ensuring operational efficiency across internal and external stakeholders. This role acts as a central coordinator between multiple stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate, and cost-effective production delivery. In the broadest sense, the Production Planner is responsible for the identification and segregation of different tasks that make up the daily schedule, setting milestones and deadlines, and monitoring progress to the defined goals. The internal nomination for this role is "Production Controller"
Responsibilities
- Create and coordinate daily production schedules throughout the day and make necessary adjustments when unexpected situations should arise (sick employee, down equipment, late shipments.
- Responsible for traceability of product movement internally and externally by tracking shipping and incoming inventory.
- Monitor and adjust schedules to optimize product flow and meet deadlines, as well as alert when daily workload cannot be completed and trigger mitigation solutions.
- Track and monitor the daily capacity for each department and employee.
- Identify any bottleneck in overall process and propose improvement ideas including more training for resources.
- Investigate capacity impact on new services or special projects being introduced and ensure proper cost recovery
- Ensure load leveling procedures are maintained by avoiding spikes in daily workload
- Manage a reserve of product inventory. Using this reserve to guarantee very minimal down time
- Track all incoming product shipments via transport websites and ensure they are properly scheduled according to service requests filled out by subscriber (client).
- Track and monitor when shipments are required for return product and/or donations
- Identify any foreseeable risks and obstacles that may impact the daily schedule.
- Prepare contingency plans, provide risk analysis, and have measures in place to address any issues that may arise.
- Ambassador to GS1 to maintain specific Service Level Agreements ( SLA).
Qualific ations
- A bachelor’s degree in planning/scheduling, business management or accounting required.
- 3+ years' experience in a similar scheduling role for operations and/or supply chain management
Required Skills
- This role requires knowledge of both French (Orally expressive, less so in writing) and English, as it involves frequent communication with stakeholders and business partners across Canada, including in provinces where English is the predominant language - Mandatory
- Communication skills: must have excellent verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with a range of stakeholders
- Analytical skills: the controller must be able to gather and analyze complex data to inform decision-making processes.
- Problem-solving skills: Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
- Project management skills: the controller must be able to manage the daily and weekly schedule from start to finish.
- Experience with inventory management, part classification or category profiling.
- Strong organizational and scheduling skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office, Power BI, scheduling planning tools.
- A positive, team-oriented attitude with a commitment to continuous learning and professional Development.
About GS1 Canada
GS1, a not-for-profit association, introduced the barcode and enhanced global standards for efficient business communication across the global supply chain. GS1 Canada is one of 116 GS1 Member Organizations worldwide. GS1 has been partnering with the industry globally for over 50 years—even before GS1 introduced the first barcode on a pack of gum in 1974. Today, GS1 barcodes are scanned 10 billion times a day, and GS1 standards are the world's most widely used system of standards.
In Canada, GS1 Canada collaborates with business leaders, industry boards, advisory councils, and industry work groups through its unique community management role to develop standards, guidelines, and non-proprietary business solutions. Partnering with industry, GS1 Canada provides education and implementation support to subscribers of all sizes across multiple sectors.