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

Intuitive is seeking an innovative and flexible individual to help drive the planning activities for the Instrument or Systems Manufacturing lines. Someone who will be responsible for the overall status of order fulfillment and managing inventory levels throughout the manufacturing process.

The Sr. Production Planner will be assigned critical operations, NPI or sustaining projects to manage. They must be able to seek out and recommend process improvements, assist in developing of team members skill sets in planning. Take on leadership responsibilities for strategic planning activities that enable the department capabilities to scale to the growing business needs.

You will work with multiple cross-functional teams, including: Manufacturing, Supply chain, Quality, Engineering and several other to achieve both tactical and strategic goals assigned. You must fully knowledge production demand and supply needs, operational goals while incorporating Lean Manufacturing principals. Identify and coordinate issue resolution and continuous improvement (CI) opportunities with other departments. This position requires solid presentation and clear communication skills.

Essential Job Duties

• Manage assigned NPI/Sustaining projects at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Evaluate current process and recommend continuous improvement to evolve process.
• Provides mentorship through tactical training to team members to improve their skill sets in NPI/ Sustaining planning.
• Drive efforts to create and/or updating work instructions (WI) & Departmental Operating Procedures (DOP).
• Supervise and help departments or organizational projects.
• Gain project team consensus, track/ monitor scope, scope changes, project plan time lines against phase review targets, variances and contingencies that surface during implementation of projects.
• Escalate where necessary to management.
• Engage manufacturing teams in the continuous improvement process to ensure assigned projects are identified, prioritized and implemented in a timely and effective manner.
• Identify potential supply risks and inventory exposures by aligning supply chain processes with production plan milestones/targets.
• Illuminate impact to supply continuity for Finished Goods Inventory (FGI).
• Apply concepts and principles of planning to develop solutions to a variety of problems, particularly with supply constraints.
• Perform capacity studies in to help with "what-if" scenarios, forecast changes, and plan for production growth.
• Maintain department metrics; examine trends and results.
• Drive appropriate corrective actions where needed.
• Provide direction to various NPI programs/projects as subject matter expert, to help product transitions to sustaining manufacturing lines.
• Partner with Purchasing and Engineering to review proposed changes and establish Engineering Change Order (ECO) affectivity.
• Execute ECO implementation requirements.
• Help production activities and ensure maximum line up-time.
• Resolve and manage potential line shortages by studying build schedules, shortage reports, on hand inventory reports and supplier delivery information.
• Develop communication relationship with Production, Engineering, Purchasing, Shipping, and Customer Service to manage supp