Job Title:  Production Planner

Position Summary

At STERIS, the Production Planner is responsible to ensure that an uninterrupted flow of product is available to meet Customer demand/forecast as agreed upon with Global Supply Chain, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service via the Sales Operation & Planning (S&OP) model. An understanding of best practices in scheduling, MRP systems, and data/metric analysis is essential for this role to be successful.

What We Offer You

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing:

Competitive salaries
Healthcare benefits 
Tuition assistance
Paid-time off
Paid holidays
Matching 401(k)
Annual merit increases
Annual bonus
 

Join us and help write your next chapter.

What You Will Do

• Formulates the master production plan that best meets market forecasts, inventory objectives and customer requirements, and inputs to MRP for assemble to order products.
• Analyze, develop, and publish weekly production schedules as well as update MPS system with 52 week planned requirements.
• Scheduling of customer sales orders in Oracle based on availability and customer expectations.
• Interfaces with sales, engineering, customer service, marketing, and manufacturing to resolve customer and facility build requirements.
• Provides inputs to demand planning on shipment schedules, plans and forecast based on capacity.
• Releases work orders to the manufacturing floor aligned with the production plan.
• Coordinate and participate in Phase In / Phase Out Product meetings to eliminate/reduce obsolete inventory impact.
• Constantly maintain, evaluate, recommend, and implement improvements in materials production schedule (MPS) and material requirements planning (MRP) to drive down inventory levels.
   

What You Will Do - cont'd

•    Develop and maintain procedures and work instructions to support master planning.
•    Researches and resolves daily MPS and MRP problems including identifying product structure problems, input and other errors.
•    Performs extensive data entry.
•    Responsible for creating, measuring, disseminating and presenting statistical data and variance reporting and analysis.
•    Ensure proper load and maintenance of the MPS as well as any Master Planned Order
•    Schedule sales orders in Oracle to availability, SSQ lead-time and to best meet customer’s requirements
•    Deliver excellent customer service to the Field to support strong Customer satisfaction in the STERIS brand.

The above statements reflect the general details of the job and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all duties inherent in the job.
 

What Will Help You Be Successful

•    Bachelor degree preferred with minimum of three (3) years relevant experience.  Minimum of thirteen (13) years experience will be accepted in lieu of degree.
•    APICS (CPIM/CIRM) or other Planning related certifications preferred, but not required.
•    Knowledge of ERP Systems, Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirement Planning, Production Planning, and Capacity Planning. 
•    Creating and maintaining detailed master production plan that aligns with S&OP process.
•    Must have strong computer skills in Microsoft Office.
•    Previous experience with Oracle, SAP, or similar manufacturing systems.
•    Demonstrated knowledge of continuous improvement projects and lean tools. 
•    Demonstrated effective interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
•    Demonstrated technical ability to utilize supply chain planning tools and systems.
•    Strategic thinking, strong analytical skills, and able to synthesize considerable amounts of complex data.

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