Production Planner at LifeNet Health

About the role

At LifeNet Health, you help save lives, restore health, and bring hope to patients and families worldwide. This job is located in Virginia Beach, VA, on-site, within the Production & Logistics department. The schedule is Monday – Friday, 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ET), and the clinical status is non-clinical.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Production Managers/Supervisors to develop effective production plans that meet defined requirements, while maximizing efficiency and minimizing waste.

• Evaluates availability of materials, equipment and staffing to create and/or modify process orders in SAP to support established plan.

• Maintains inventory level across assigned product portfolio, establishes and communicates priorities to support areas, ensuring that safety stock and product availability targets are met to minimize back orders.

• Works closely with the Strategic Operations Planner to review forecast demand and proposed production schedules for each product line.

• Resolves production disruptions and productivity problems and escalates issues to upper management as appropriate.

• Prepares and submits daily, weekly, and monthly departmental activity reports. Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions using data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain/Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration or related field.

• Master’s degree preferred.

• CTBS: Certified Tissue Bank Specialist, American Association of Tissue Banks.

• CPIM or CSCP: Association for Supply Chain Management.

• One (1) year of related work experience within tissue banking or medical device industry.

• One (1) year of ERP (SAP) experience.

Key Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate and build relationships with all professionals at different levels within the organization.

• Time Management: Ability to prioritize multiple, competing priorities and manage time/workload. Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple time sensitive projects, multi-task, identify project interdependencies and potential risks/pitfalls.

• Attention to Detail: Ability to perform tasks thoroughly and with care; checks work to ensure high degree of accuracy/ completeness and early/ on-time delivery.

• Analytical Thinking: Demonstrates the ability to successfully gather and evaluate pertinent information to draw conclusions and identify potential trends.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Microsoft Suite.