Production Planning Manager

About the role

As the Production Planning Manager at Pall Corporation, you will support the planning and inventory control functions, maximizing plant resources to meet or exceed planned results in inventory levels and operating costs. You will coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments and manufacturing units according to the production schedule, ensuring exceptional service to customers. Additionally, you will coordinate the monthly S&OP planning process within the supply planning function to ensure plants can communicate requirements to achieve forecasted demand.

Responsibilities

• Manages the production planning functions, including development, maintenance, and execution of the master production schedule, and maximizes plant resources to meet demand.
• Organizes and coordinates various sections of manufacturing, following up on performance against estimates.
• Manages effective and service-oriented planning functions to ensure correct procedures are established and adhered to, achieving maximum return on customer orders while improving responsiveness, reliability, and service.
• Manages site inventory, including raw materials, work in process, and finished goods, optimizing inventory levels to support customer demand fulfillment.
• Generates regular reporting of inventory, highlighting inventory health to drive continuous improvement.
• Coordinates the monthly S&OP supply review process for the business unit, ensuring capacity or staffing constraints are understood and communicated effectively.
• Leads the supply planning strategy and analysis of multi-site manufacturing, supporting the business unit's product management decisions on longer-term production allocation to optimize costs and capacity.

Requirements

• BS in Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business discipline required; MBA preferred.
• 7 years of production planning experience.

Skills

• Analytical skills: able to create and utilize spreadsheet models tracking demand, supply, and inventory, including multiple scenarios.
• Able to quickly merge data from multiple sources, manipulate it, and present it intelligibly to explain the situation.
• Highly proficient in MS Office tools, SAP, and other data or visualization tools is a plus.
• Effective communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good record of KPIs improvement, on-time delivery, lead time, cost, and inventory reduction, supplier development, etc.
• Certified in Lean Manufacturing, 6 Sigma, or similar.

Benefits

Pall Corporation, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) to eligible employees

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $125,000 to $145,000. This range may be modified in the future. This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.