Production Planner and Scheduler

Flowood, MS

Full Time

Experienced

Zavation Medical Products LLC designs, produces and distributes innovative and high-performance Spinal Implants and other medical devices with a particular focus on high growth and ingenuity. Our team is growing quickly and proud of the fact that our custom-made devices continue to make a huge difference in the lives of medical professionals and their patients. Our employees are actively involved in the design, engineering and manufacturing of technologically advanced medical devices that ensure that we meet our customers’ quality specifications for each product we produce. We are looking to hire an experienced Production Planner/Scheduler to help us continue to grow. The Production Planner/Scheduler will organize production according to customer demand. The goal of the Production Planner/Scheduler is to ensure that product is scheduled and produced on time per the customer acknowledged date and to help communicate with the customer.

Responsibilities:

Plan/Schedule customer orders by reviewing the demand against available capacity on constraint work centers.
Prepare short-term and long-term capacity plans identifying resource needs and scheduling adjustments to optimize equipment utilization and attain customer promise dates. Participate in monthly SIOP process to ensure appropriate resource planning including operator, machine, materials, tooling and fixtures.
Responsible for order execution and on-time delivery performance for customer orders
Works closely with key customers as the single contact point on any expediting, pushout, or capacity requests
Based on production status and capacity constraints, provide open order updates and delivery performance to key customers weekly
Analyze root cause of potential critical misses on delivery and proactively work on remediation plans by collaborating with cross-functional teams (Commercial, Customer Service, Engineering, Quality, etc)
Monitor production to ensure timely release of work orders to meet the service obligations as well as ensure jobs are progressing on time through the various processes, both internal and external.
Coordinates monthly customer forecasting process for site, to support capacity planning, production planning, and material planning activities
Improve visibility and monitor schedule execution on any overdue jobs, engineering holds, or other quality issues for key customers.
Develop/populate daily/weekly dashboard to assess the healthiness of production and schedule attainment for key customers.
Support production Schedulers to establish daily/weekly production plans

Individual Qualities That Will Make You Successful:

A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
A quick learner who is always ready to gain in-depth knowledge of manufacturing processes
A reliable worker who knows the importance of showing up when it counts
Accept assignments with open, cooperative, positive and team-oriented attitudes
Able to plan and execute plans across teams
Effective communicator, both written and verbal

Key Qualifications and Experience That You Have :

Bachelor’s Degree required (Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or related discipline).
3-5 years production planning / manufacturing experience, including medical device manufacturing, Orthopedics preferably
Scheduling application experience is a must. Lynq preferable
Technical certifications such as APICS Certification preferred
Possess excellent communication skills and interacts in a professional courteous manner with all co-workers

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