Production Planner

Rubicon Food Products Limited manufactures and distributes leading brands; Rubicon (exotic soft juice drinks) and Shana (authentic frozen food). Our business in North America is the global growth engine of Rubicon, with exports to UAE, Africa, South Asia, Far East and Australia. Our success depends on dedicated employees that live our moto : Making Life More Exotic.

Job Description

POSITION OVERVIEW

This position is responsible for creating a feasible production schedule, inventory management, and management of co-packers. Co-packer management includes ensuring production targets are met, inventory management with regards to co-packer materials, and supervising the customer coordinator in scheduling shipment of co-packer finished goods and communicating with customers.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES

• Create a feasible production plan within the detailed production scheduling period by shift that takes into consideration available capacity, labour and materials while respecting the product sequencing and optimizing the costs to produce.
• Review the detailed production schedule on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to ensure it continues to meet business priorities and requirements.
• Communicate and manage relationship with co-packers to ensure production plan and schedule is aligned with all key stakeholder requirements.
• Determine material, equipment, and labour requirements.
• Hold weekly production meetings to keep all production staff updated on changes within the department as well as provide reminders to ensure all staff are maintain best practices.
• Prepare status and performance reports and resolve production issues.
• Collaborate with warehouse, quality, procurement, and other departments as required.
• Manage competing deadlines based on project expectations.
• Organize, analyze, and visualize production data to drive decision‑making and improve efficiency.
• Recommending viable solutions to resolve production issues, reduce production costs, and improve production processes.
• Oversee investigations and resolutions with regards to raw material and finished good inventory discrepancies.
• Any other duties as necessary and assigned by the Operations Director.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Skills and Characteristics

Additional Information

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