Production Scheduler (Open to New Graduates) chez Wonderbrands

Company

Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.

Our Program

Do you have a passion to innovate and a desire to challenge the status quo? We are seeking individuals interested in starting a career in an organization that offers opportunities to work in a fun, stimulating, and dynamic environment as a Productions Scheduler.

We want to help you unleash your full potential! Our Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program is designed for high-potential professionals, with an objective of training the next generation of leaders and developing our home-grown talent. We create safe and inclusive spaces that encourage you to be you. The result is an agile workplace, filled with Team Members that have a relentless obsession with continuous improvement and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker!

What Wonderbrands Offers:

• We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training; Unleashing Your Potential 
• Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
• Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, and a generous flexible Medical/Health spending account
• Employer matching Pension program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - restaurants, gyms, shopping etc. 

Summary:

The functional reporting for the Production Scheduler role will be to Supply Planning Manager. The bakery crew e.g. receivers, cycle counters and line shippers who will be supporting the activities below will be providing support to this position for their portion of responsibilities laid out below.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Schedule production at the bakery based on guideline from the central planning teamand optimize production runs
• Adjust schedules in response to unplanned events such as machine breakdowns, labor shortages, raw material delays, or increase demand
• Escalation of issues, when necessary, e.g., materials discrepancies higher than the tolerance, process discrepancies within the bakery, production shortages etc. to Central planning team
• Accountable for ensuring scheduling files are maintained and up to date with new changes
• Responsible for releasing process orders for production
• Help Supply planning team to have visibility on PPW generated out of the bakery
• Track and report key scheduling KPIs such as service fill rate, on-time completions
• Ensuring Cycle counts of Finished Goods completed bi-weekly and responsible for addressing Finished goods discrepancies
• Improve inventory accuracy at the bakery to 98%+ (FG, SFG)  
• Ensuring that the bakery production team maintains up-to-date and accurate information on the reporting system and escalating the issue when necessary
• Act as backup for Material Planner as required  
• Other duties as required

About You:

• A bachelor’s degree or diploma in Materials Management, Industrial engineering or equivalent
• Strong communicator and team builder
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced & multitask environment
• Possess strong understating of Production Scheduling
• Ability to learn fast, ambitious, and come up with new innovative
• Naturally curious and strong desire to learn and grow
• Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent time management skills and have sense of urgency
• Flexible to work different work schedules when needed
• Must have strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel.
• SAP experience is considered an asset
• Programming skills are considered an asset
• Positive attitude and a results-oriented mindset
• Bright, driven and clear about your future career goals
• Roll up your sleeves mentality with a whatever it takes mindset to get the job done

What is the recipe for a great career at Wonderbrands?

Working at Wonderbrands, there is never a dull moment! As a successful company that is continually growing there is always challenging yet rewarding work to be a part of. We have an entrepreneurial spirit which encourages all our team members to use their own creativity and out of the box thinking to come up with solutions and new ideas.

Wonderbrands, now part of the FGF Brands Group of companies, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading-edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake. We are heavily focused on embracing an entrepreneurial drive and a highly collaborative start up culture with an emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.

In compliance with Ontario’s Bill 190, we confirm that this posting represents a current existing vacancy within our organization.

Disclaimer: The above describes the general responsibilities, required knowledge and skills.  Please keep in mind that other duties may be added, or this description may be amended at any time.