Process Planner

Full Job Description

New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader with various locations in North America. Offering the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE™ brands. It also offers infrastructure development through New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at .

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Process Planning Supervisor and as a member of the Manufacturing Engineering department, this position is responsible for maintaining and creating production routings and bills of material from engineering documentation. This position plans the material flow, labour, and tooling requirements for new and existing products.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Implements Engineering Change Orders (ECO's), Routing Change Requests (RCR's) and Engineering Authorized Deviations (EAD's).
• Creates production routings with estimated labor times for fabricated parts, assemblies, and installations.
• Calculates raw material usage for new fabricated parts.
• Updates production routings of component parts and sub-assemblies.
• Communicates with manufacturing engineering, production, inventory control, purchasing and production control planning to ensure implementation of engineering changes.
• Provides new design and contract support, and bids and sales release customer requests.
• Participate in SWAT meetings and actions open STAW issues as required.
• Conduct process observations and assists with resolution of MRP processing errors.
• Supports lean manufacturing initiatives, manufacturing engineering and production engineering.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

• Post-secondary degree in engineering or technology with previous manufacturing process planning experience.
• Strong understanding of multi-disciplinary manufacturing processes is required, including metal fabrication, welding, assembly work and painting.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, Excel and MRP processes is required.
• Professional team player with strong interpersonal/communications skills with the ability to analyze data and problem solve while functioning in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of Oracle would be considered an asset.
• APICS or CPIM certification would be considered an asset.

Up to 10% of travel is required in this position.

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM:

• Competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package.
• A continuous learning environment.
• Ability to advance your career with a growing company.
• NFI Group has been named a Manitoba Top Employer for 2020 and this is the tenth since the competition was established in 2007.
• Employee social committee organizes numerous events throughout the year, including summer barbecues, holiday festivities, sporting events and tournaments, and much more.
• Ongoing employee development through a variety of in-house training initiatives along with tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions.

OUR WHY:

We exist to move people. Our mission is to design and deliver exceptional transportation solutions that are safe, accessible, efficient and reliable.

NFI Group is a leading independent global bus manufacturer providing a comprehensive suite of mass transportation solutions. News and information are available at , , , , , and .