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Industrial Planner

Job in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Listing for: Alstom
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-11
Job specializations:
  • Manufacturing / Production
    Operations Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Production Manager, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Req

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time Industrial Planner in Kingston, ON we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your prduction management expertise in a cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside a collaborative and forward-thinking team of professionals.

You'll play a key role in ensuring the seamless scheduling and control of daily operations on the production line, helping to deliver high-quality products on time in alignment with the Master Production Schedule.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (manufacturing, industrial, procurement, and logistics), analyze data to optimize production processes, and support continuous improvement initiatives using lean tools, and much more.

Schedule and control the daily operations on the production line, so that they are manufactured on time in accordance with the Master Production Schedule.

We'll look to you for

  • Launch, coordinate and control the progress of Work Orders according to the MPS (Manufacturing planning & scheduling)
  • On a daily basis, coordinate with logistic, material planning and quality to allow the manufacturing team to produce as per the plan
  • Monitor production plan adherence and analyze the root causes of delay of the production plan and their impact
  • Identify the bottlenecks as well as all other possible risks on the production plan
  • Calculate manufacturing and testing workload inside the Planning Tool / ERP
  • Identify the quantity of resources needed per workshop, metier, skills
  • Report the Work In Progress (WIP) and Finished goods (FG) for Hard Inventory (HI) consolidation in time
  • Report the Manufacturing Throughput and Production Performance KPIs in time
  • Guarantee that the data inside the ERP (SAP) / Core Planning Tool are updated
  • Ensure that priorities as planned in the MPS are clearly displayed and updated at shop floor level (visual management)
  • Contribute to data accuracy check related to BOM/Routings in collaboration with Industrialization
  • Follow-up daily the progress of Work Orders through close exchanges with EPU/Line managers
  • Check plan orders readiness to ensure work orders can be launch on time and analyze exception messages of the MRP (Material Requirements Planning)
  • Alert the industrial and supply chain teama bout issues impacting plan execution (missing parts, quality issues, production stoppage, technical data)
  • Manage the information workflow of work orders: job release, material consumption
  • Provide the line-feeding priorities visibility to the logistics team in order to secure the production
  • Contribute to minimize the product throughput time and maintain optimum WIP (Working In Progress)
  • Collaborate to the quarterly S&OP:
    Build the industrial planning for opportunities in coherency with inputs from project team, site strategic plan and provide output to central S&OP team for global consolidation
  • Perform operations workload versus workforce analysis and analyze bottlenecks (site capacity)
  • Follow and promote the EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) rules and guidelines
  • Support the manufacturing site and supply chain team in continous improvement as per APSYS guidelines
  • All about you

    We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

  • Degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
  • Minimum 4 years of experience managing planning, production scheduling, production management, or operational supply chain with relevant usage of ERP (ideally SAP) in a manufacturing environment
  • Knowledgeable of industrial planning, production management, logistics, inventory management, material planning in a manufacturing environemnt preferabley…
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