Production Planning Specialist

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter

Schedule production for products and components ensuring domestic and international customer orders are fulfilled in a timely manner. Primary responsibilities include production scheduling to maximize the utilization of production resources, managing reallocations of orders, oversight of inventory, and developing and maintaining appropriate reports to track and monitor production and inventory status.

Your Team

Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the team strives to create quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to create products with the customer's needs top-of-mind.

We build relationships with each other to get work done.

As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds.

What You'll Be Doing

• Schedule adequate amount of resources to meet production requirements to fulfill all domestic and international product orders and ensure timely delivery to customers.

• Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.

• Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with Centralized Planning Specialists and Operations team.

• Maintain manual forecast to generate supply base requirements for accessory items.

• Arrange for delivery, assembly, or distribution of supplies or parts to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules.

• Ensure parts are coded and routed to meet implementation dates of new products.

• Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, on-time delivery misses, short shipments, or reallocations, so that status reports can be completed.

• Analyze and track on time delivery misses, short shipments, and reallocations. Lead countermeasure activities.

• Develop and maintain a close partnership with Materials, Sourcing, Engineering, Distribution, Production, Customer Service and Centralized Planning Specialists.

What You'll Bring

• High School Diploma or (GED) General Education Degree or equivalent experience by combination of additional education and work experience.(Bachelor’s Degree Preferred)

• One to Two years’ production control experience (2-3 years’ experience scheduling, procurement, customer service, or shop floor execution.)

• In depth understanding of MRP and DRP processes

• Requires proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft applications, JDE, and CIMX.

• General understanding of standard planning/manufacturing rules, procedures and processes.

• Strong communication skills both written and oral a must.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $52,800 - $72,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon locat