About Kinaxis
In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2024), we want to help you take the first step in crafting your career journey.
At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Location
This is a hybrid position. You must be in the Toronto office, at least three days a week.
About The Team
Production Scheduling is the process of arranging, controlling, and optimizing work and workloads in a production or manufacturing process. Kinaxis Enterprise Scheduling unifies production planning and scheduling activities on a single, concurrent platform, allowing planners and schedulers to immediately see the impact of demand and supply changes, from forecast all the way down to the shopfloor schedule.
The Enterprise Scheduling team is focused on building an enterprise level scheduling application with the flexibility of a site-level scheduler and a focus on fast, scalable scheduling algorithms. The team has a passion for solving complex scheduling problems and building highly scalable, configurable, and extensible applications.
This role is only for specific enrollees of PEY Program in the Engineering department of University of Toronto.
This role is a full-time, 12-month position, starting May 2025.
What you will do
- Design and implement novel Production Scheduling models, heuristics, and meta-heuristics
- Translate real world Production Scheduling use cases and constraints into computational models
- Collaborate closely with our experienced developers, adhering to best practices including unit testing, and software craftmanship
- Engage actively in our scrum rituals, contribute to design discussions, and partake in code review sessions
- As a product-focused team, embrace a range of roles including tester, investigator, facilitator and support
Technologies we use
- Java for core algorithm development
- IntelliJ, JIRA, Confluence, Git
- State of the art in-memory database and analytics technology
What we are looking for
- Working toward a degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering (or related)
- Excellent software engineering skills
- Knowledge of production scheduling algorithms and techniques using optimization and/or heuristics
- A love of algorithms and problem solving, and the desire to apply them in the real world
- Working knowledge of Java, C# or similar language, including object-oriented design, unit testing
- Ability to design high performance code that does in seconds what others do in hours
- The commitment to help every member of your team perform better
- Background in, or understanding of, supply chain management a nice to have
- Experience working under agile methodologies such as Scrum a nice to have
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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.
Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Ford, Unilever, Yamaha, P&G, Lockheed-Martin, and more.
Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs and training and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com .
Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com . This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
