Manufacturing Planner

About the position

This position is responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating and/or monitoring the flow of products through the complete production and sterilization cycle. Coordinates and expedites the flow of work and materials to assure the plant meets scheduled production demands. The production planner will establish, maintain and ensure proper execution of a valid production schedule for respective items, and is responsible for level loading daily production schedules through analyzing resource capacity and other constraints to optimize throughput, while minimizing manufacturing cycle time, and inventory and achieving on-time delivery goals. This function supports manufacturing from the initial purchase of raw materials through their conversion to finished goods. Responsible for production planning and for achieving targeted schedule compliance goals with departments. They provide future demand to Finance for forecasting and budgeting. Buyer/Planners are also responsible for assuring that the raw materials and other production related items assigned to them are available to meet the planned production schedules. Ensures compliance with company quality systems, policies, procedures and best practices, and all local, state, federal and company safety regulations, policies and procedures. Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English. Willing and able to uphold company Values.

Responsibilities

• Supports manufacturing from initial purchase of raw materials through their conversion to finished goods.
• Responsible for production planning and for achieving schedule compliance goals with departments.
• Works with production operators, production management, Planner/Buyers and Logistics management across the company.
• Balance raw materials and supplies to minimize on hand inventory.
• Ensures scheduling does not result in outages of material and production stoppages that could negatively impact other plants/customers, causing backorders and/or revenue loss to the company.
• Owns/Drives monthly Master Data activities.
• Assist in the development of the annual department budgets, including personnel and equipment requirements.
• Provides delivery promise dates/lead times to internal and external planning teams for incoming orders.
• Provide future demand to Finance for forecasting and budgeting.
• Responsible for Production Order Review, Master Data, Monthly PPH & Scrap trend files and Budget preparation activities.
• Budget activities include: Creating file of current production BOMs/Routings for review.
• Review ‘Version 1’ master data.
• Recap current PPH trend for use in setting new year standard.
• Recap current component/operational waste for use in setting new year standard.
• Scheduling review meetings w/BLT to set new year standards – pph & waste.
• BOM/Routing copy process – production master data copied for budget and validated.
• Create budget BOM/Routing files for planner/business review.
• Compare current year budget master data to new budget master data.
• Review usage probability on BOMs with alternate materials (eg, Brazil or SLP cuts).
• Add operational scrap to routings where needed.
• Prepare units input file and load to SAP.
• Evaluate errors and master data issues for resolution, including contacting other sites.
• Recap Cannula requirements for sourcing evaluation.
• Assist setting up new materials, work centers.
• Field specific questions because of our knowledge of processes and systems.
• Other duties as required to support the needs of the business.

Requirements

• Must have at least 3 years of manufacturing/planning experience.
• Associates or Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Operations Management, or related Business field is preferred.
• Must have advanced excel skills- macros, v-lookups, etc.
• SAP/MES experience preferred.
• MRP/ERP experience preferred.
• Planning/Buying experience preferred.
• Background in Lean manufacturing preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)