Production Planner

What You’ll Enjoy At INNIO Waukesha

Innovative Work : Collaborate on advanced manufacturing projects that deliver industry‑leading products powering global industries.

Mission‑Driven Team : Join a group of dedicated professionals committed to safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Safety is a top priority, with annual reimbursement for safety shoes and prescribed safety glasses provided.

Keep Growing: Access a robust tuition and professional development program, as well as internal training and career development opportunities to expand your skills and advance your career.

Health & Wellness: Enjoy medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage for you and your family from day one. EAP program and health care spending account available.

Work‑Life Balance & Perks: Benefit from on‑site gym access, a $300 annual fitness reimbursement program, paid personal days, and RRSP/TFSA and pension plan matching.

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - 90,000 , which will be determined based on the candidate's experience and qualifications.

The Production Scheduler will foster cross-functional collaboration, leveraging their expertise and experience to align with internal departments. Their role is pivotal in formulating and implementing strategies that align with both immediate and long-term business objectives, ensuring a transparent view of material availability with a particular emphasis on initiating the machining of parts. This role will initiate jobs in the Oracle ERP system/MES. They will also be responsible for identifying, communicating, and escalating any material delays in accordance with production and service schedules. This position requires a strong analytical aptitude coupled with a customer-centric approach, and a comprehensive understanding of concepts, methods, procedures, and technical knowledge.

Essential Responsibilities

• As a key player in daily scheduling and planning activities, you will focus on final and sub-assembly machining production and service, meeting short-term objectives, swiftly resolving issues, establishing long-term plans, and conducting root cause analysis to enhance efficiency and expedite the scheduling process.
• Collaborate with team members to resolve issues, track material availability, advise on material shortages, maintain daily communication with internal stakeholders (Production, Sourcing, Quality, Service, Engineering, Sales), and fulfill shop requirements through the scheduling and release of production orders.
• Work extensively within Oracle ERP/ASCP and Microsoft Excel.
• Maintain and improve inventory planning and control systems to ensure that the right material can be received in the right time to support on-time fulfillment.
• Use problem solving skills to work through fulfillment and supplier issues.
• Understand issues and opportunities within areas of responsibility and drive process improvements.
• Create, review, update necessary reports to effectively communicate to all levels of the business.
• Keep system maintenance for accuracy/alignment for scheduled dates in ERP system.
• Collaboration with SIOP to help analyze, identify, and action concerns in our demand signals.
• Monitor the material input to ensure the inventory level in proper level, balance the material supply & inventory replenishment.
• Mitigate and minimize expediting fees and other expenses with suppliers.
• Supports key planning inputs into ERP, including lead times, minimum, maximum, fixed order, and fixed lot multiplier quantities, days of supply, etc.
• Manage supplier updates in ERP to ensure that they are up-to-date and of qualitative value to our internal customers.
• Support supplier performance initiatives and drive resolution on performance issues by understanding supplier capacities & capabilities.
• Support key business initiatives through continuous improvement projects.
• Drive Supply ON adoption with suppliers.
• Contribute to projects as a team member or leads small projects.
• Manage daily and long-range scheduling by rescheduling jobs for pull ins (expedites) and push outs (for inventory control).

Qualifications / Requirements

• Working knowledge of Material Requirements Planning module – Oracle, SAP, etc.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with supply chain focus or related field (or 3+ years of comparable industry experience)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, influence people across a complex matrixed organization, drive change at all levels of the organization, and excel in fast paced business environment
• Consistent track record of meeting / exceeding key performance objectives
• Demonstrated ability to organize, assess, prioritize tasks, risks, resources, milestones, and deliverables with frequently changing priorities
• Demonstrated strong customer service and detail-oriented mindset
• Ability to analyze problems, identify root causes and provide efficient solutions
• Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact

Desired Characteristics

• APICS Certification
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and coordinate several projects simultaneously
• Significant planning, scheduling, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to work independently under tight time deadlines
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Previous planning, procurement, scheduling, or equivalent experience
• Must be a collaborative team player, willing to take ownership of decisions and be a results-oriented self-starter

Accommodations

INNIO is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. We will make reasonable accommodations for the needs of applicants under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please advise the Human Resources Department at View email address on ca.workus.org to ensure your accessibility needs are accommodated throughout this process.

As part of our commitment to innovation and efficiency, INNIO utilizes AI technology to assist in the initial screening of applicants. All hiring decisions are made with human oversight to ensure fairness, context, and alignment with our core values.