Materials Planner

Role Summary

Schedules all resources to meet 100% of shipments. Collaborate with Materials and Production teams to ensure production schedules meet demand timing and inventory targets while optimizing efficiency of manufacturing resources.

**The successful candidate for this role will work at our new Magna Structures Heart Lake facility located in Brampton, ON**

Key Responsibilities

• Create production schedules for internal or external suppliers out of internal or external customer demands
• Run weekly MRPs and Make necessary changes to MRP output as needed to ensure customer demand coverage
• Communicate MRP via EDI or email to supply base and obtain acknowledgement of communication to ensure compliance
• Communicate with customers and suppliers on a daily basis to ensure parts/goods availability while keeping inventory within pre-defined levels
• Facilitate and manages scheduling matters within Materials department, as well as, other departments, locations and divisions, including senior management
• Coordinate with other departments to address subcontracting or external manufacturing needs to ensure supply
• Provide daily manpower requirements to production and HR to obtain necessary headcount to perform desired schedules
• Monitor and report production KPI’s • Measure capacity utilization and analyze future demand to identify gaps and opportunities
• Communicate with release analyst and shipping department to ensure harmonization of activities to meet needed objectives
• Set schedules daily for all equipment and monitor production progress
• If bottlenecks occur, define, communicate, agree on and/or report counter measurements
• Identify need for freight expedites and provide written request to logistics department for execution 
• Communicate all component shortages to Material Manager for further escalations
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers and/or suppliers
• Create and execute Purchase Orders and Purchase REQ’s as required
• Commitment to continuous improvement and work place safety
• Dependable and Team Player
• TS16949 awareness and adherence
   

Key Qualifications/Requirements

• Post secondary education or equivalent work experience
• CMS with minimum 2 years experience as a Materials Planner
• Automotive manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of inventory control techniques
• Communication skills to control supplier schedule and escalate to resolve problems with urgency
• Problem solving skills such as 8D, 5 Why, Parrado analysis would be an asset
• Education and experience that support Material Planning techniques

What Heart Lake Offers

• Weekly pay via direct deposit
• Company paid Medical and Dental Benefits and an option for enhanced flexible benefits
• Magna will contribute an amount equal to 3% of regular earnings every week to your retirement savings (MBC program)
• Profit sharing
• Matched GRRSP
• Company paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Safety shoe allowance, prescription safety glasses allowance, custom molded earplug allowance
• Company paid uniforms
• Company BBQ, holiday parties and company events
• Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives 
• Annual Employee Opinion Survey
• Magna Service Award Program
• Magna Scholarship Program
• Group Rogers and Bell cellphone data plan available
• Subsidized cafeteria 
• Educational Assistance Program
• Employee Discounts: new vehicles, amusement parks, etc.
• You get to work with a FANTASTIC Team at a state-of-the-art Electric Vehicle Battery Enclosure Plant

Additional Information

Accommodations for disabilities in relation to the job selection process are available upon request.

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