Senior Production Planner

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that maybe assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

The Senior Production Planner is a critical position within our team. This role is responsible for serving as a liaison between all internal organizations to ensure that components and assembles flow smoothly through the work areas to meet stringent deadlines.

Work with various teams in Service, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality and Finance to fully understand Service demand and supply needs and balancing operational goals. Steer project developments as needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop Planning KPIs and reporting on key business analytics to monitor/track inventory, distribution requirements for autonomous demand, backorder projections, etc. to reflect supply chain health of assigned products.
• Develop and refine tools for on-going support of business. Take a lead role for business process and system enhancement SME coordination with supply chain and IT teams.
• Identify and resolve conflicts with material availability, capacity availability and available to promise data integrity.
• Illuminate impact to Supply continuity for Finished goods, represent PPC team in organizational SOE (Supply Execution performance)
• Participate in SIOP activities, highlights capacity challenges, and engage in cross functional alignment with the various stake holders.
• Ability to Forecast and prevent production issues. Resolve issues impacting shop productivity in collaboration with all required groups, i.e., shop leadership, production control operations (material flow), master scheduler, and to develop an action plan and drive implementation to facilitate quick recovery and to minimize impact on overall build performance.
• Maintain master data maintenance and ensure master data information in ERP system, such as item attributes, planning, ordering/manufacturing times, are accurate and up to date. Optimize Part attributes for most effective planning mode for assigned product, ensure world class attribute accuracy and data/ERP integrity.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders of deployment projections, constraints, allocation recommendations, etc.
• Understanding of high complex Mutli-tier BOM System, complex traveler systems routing and customized Supply planning tools.
• High level of MRP understanding, how attributes impact Planned order signals with stakeholders to ensure organizational alignments. (Supply chain, MFG, Engineering)
• Apply analytics and supply chain expertise to manage system parameters and meet target inventory and service level goals while minimizing costs and obsolescence.
• Deliver clear-to-build status, material coverage, Stockout- reports and other analyses as needed. Provide data-driven judgment support to the broader organization through what-if and constraint scenario planning.
• Manage business execution of new and/or upgrade Design, Engineering initiatives that may include last time buy needs, phase-outs and re-designs, new product launch (PPQ, APL).
• High proficiency working in advanced planning modules (o9 AP systems/Kina