Capacity Planner
Listed on 2026-09-14
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Supply Chain/Logistics
Inventory Control & Analysis, Procurement / Purchasing, Operations Management
SCM-Procurement / Supply Chain Logistics Mid-level Professional
Change the future with us.
We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.
Why you’ll love working for Siemens!- Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital work spaces.
- Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
- Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
- Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
- Profit sharing available.
- Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
- Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
- Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
- Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
- Employee perks and discounts.
- Diversity and inclusivity focused.
Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2026 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2026.
What will you do?The Capacity Planner is responsible for ensuring efficient and timely planning of production activities, balancing customer demand, material availability, and manufacturing capacity. This role supports daily, weekly, and long-term capacity planning while driving effective communication between Production, Source, Engineering, and Order Management teams. The position also plays a key role in supporting schedule adherence, identifying and resolving capacity constraints, and maintaining the overall health of the production plan.
Responsibilities- Maintain daily capacity capabilities by work center, identifying constraints and assisting in resolution.
- Perform weekly reporting of work center capacities.
- Validate material availability to support the schedule plan; identify shortages and coordinate with Source team.
- Plan and establish shop-floor production schedules considering customer orders, material availability, and plant capacity.
- Dispatch new production orders to ensure capacity alignment.
- Carry out detailed capacity planning for machine and labour resources by work center.
- Participate in decision-making processes regarding make-in-house versus alternative production strategies to compensate for capacity bottlenecks.
- Expedite and de-expedite production orders as required to meet customer delivery expectations.
- Communicate production priorities to the shop floor using agreed up tools and processes.
- Advise the Order Management team of any delays impacting customer deliveries.
- Create manufacturing-related schedules aligned with orders and forecasted demand.
- Generate MTR production orders for R&D and Product Engineering.
- Support Team Leads with production order-related tasks.
- Implement Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) accurately and on time.
- Collaborate cross-functionally, sharing relevant information to ensure optimal supply chain performance.
- Provide lead times to Order Entry upon customer request.
- Actively support continuous improvement initiatives within planning, scheduling, and production processes.
- Post-secondary education:
College Diploma in Materials Management, Business Administration,…
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