Production Planner

Mizuho OSI•Fremont, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Mizuho OSI is a leader in specialty surgery and patient positioning markets, offering surgical tables and patient care products. The Planner executes the Master Schedule for assigned products by creating a Production Plan to support the Material Requirements Plan (MRP) and management direction. This role involves planning, scheduling, and coordinating products through the entire production cycle, ensuring inventory and asset management controls are used to provide the right amount of material at the right time to satisfy customers. The position is part of a cross-functional team focused on developing Lean stocking and build strategies to maximize material coverage while minimizing costs and resources. This materials leadership role will drive continuous improvement activities and work with customers to educate them and integrate Lean manufacturing methods.

Requirements

5 years of directly related experience.
Associate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience with increasing level of responsibility.
Ability to clearly express oneself verbally and in writing in English with good grammar, vocabulary, and eye contact.
Ability to communicate effectively with employees and business contacts in a courteous and professional manner.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong presentation, project, and organizational skills.
Excellent computer skills including operating Windows-based personal computers.
Ability to efficiently and effectively use Microsoft products such as Outlook, Word, Excel.
Shop Floor and Machine Shop Planning experience utilizing a state-of-the-art MRP system; SAP preferred.
Analytical skills required for determining priorities, lot sizes, lead times, and shop floor schedules.
Able to read and interpret MRP, bills of materials, routings, non-conforming materials reports, and other common manufacturing documents.
Knowledge of computer applications such as EXCEL, Outlook, Word.
Ability to be accurate, detail-oriented, and perform in high-pressure situations.
Ability to effectively interact with all functional areas, at all levels, both verbally and in writing, particularly Purchasing, Manufacturing, Production, Engineering, Stockroom, Cost Accounting, Shipping, and Sales Ops.

Nice To Haves

APICS certification a plus.

Responsibilities

Plan production according to the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Material Requirements Plan (MRP) requirements, including work order creation, ongoing maintenance, and variance reconciliation.
Publish production schedules and ensure adherence by collaborating with all functional areas to meet production requirements.
Follow Manufacturing Routers to ensure products are built per print or reworked per instructions.
Communicate, track, and expedite material shortages or other issues affecting the production plan or sales order backlog.
Manage capacity overruns in Assembly and Machine Shop by balancing machine and resource demands.
Communicate completion schedules of assigned products.
Evaluate Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), and ensure proper implementation on assigned products, including establishing effectivity dates, initiating and monitoring purge/rework/scrap actions, and evaluating projected and total costs of ECN implementations.
Monitor and act on past due work orders, cancel process messages, MRB balances, safety stock levels, and other order recommendations.
Utilize Lean / Demand flow skills to drive inventory replenishment, establish control cycles, and supermarket quantities.
Participate in evaluating costs, methodology, and processes to streamline materials flow through manufacturing.
Assume materials responsibilities and roles for assigned value streams.
Establish, manage, and update control cycles and kanbans for assigned value streams.
Manage build priorities based on Heijunka boards.
Manage part lot sizes to support demand flow production, balancing cost with material coverage.
Work to reduce set-up times/costs to increase capacity and runs while decreasing run quantities.
Ensure the use of lean manufacturing tools such as continuous improvement, metrics reporting, 5S, and visual controls.
Plan the addition of new product demands on machine shop resources and assess capacity shortfalls.
Manage Material Master Data elements including Procurement Type, MRP Controller, In house Production Time, Planned Delivery time, Schedule Margin key, Lot Size, and Replenishment Lead Time.
Planning responsibilities may be in Production Assembly and/or the Machine Shop.
Process Trade Show returns.
Understand Mizuho OSI’s business objectives and the relationship between the Department and those objectives; support and follow the Corporate Vision, Mission & Values Statements; maintain service and quality levels; and enable Mizuho OSI to be a great place to work.
Understand, follow, and support Mizuho OSI’s internal Quality System policies, procedures, and work instructions, including applicable external regulations (21 CFR Part 820 and applicable International Standards).