Careers that Change LivesA career at Medtronic is like no other. We're committed to and driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of people worldwide!Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It's no accident – we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it's the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.A Day in the LifeCome join our team as aProduction Plannerat our facility in Billerica, MA, where you'll play a crucial role in supporting the platform for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. With our company experiencing rapid growth, this is your chance to grow with us! As aProduction Planner, you're the backbone of seamless operations. Throughout the day, you navigate between departments, keeping everyone on track and informed about work progress and inventory levels. You fine-tune production schedules, ensuring materials are in sync with demand. With precision, you schedule equipment and personnel, ensuring smooth workflow. Your coordination ensures that parts move seamlessly through the production process, maintaining efficiency and meeting deadlines. In this role, every decision you make ensures that production runs like a well-oiled machine. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.Plans, prepares, issues, and controls production schedules and directs material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of raw and approved finished goods materials timed to meet production requirements.Advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, inventory levels, and potential production or material supply disruptions to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials, and services are provided on-time and at an optimal cost.Schedules equipment and personnel, confirms material supply and demands, prepares work orders or purchase requests for the production or purchase of components or parts based on a master production schedule, shop load, and inventory requirements.Coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance, manufacturing, purchasing, engineering, inventory control, traffic, demand planning, etc.; schedules and expedites the movement of parts by means of move orders, stock transfers, and requests for shipping orders.Must Have: Minimum RequirementsTo be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.Bachelor's degreeMinimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experienceNice to HaveProficient in SAP or a comparable ERP systemSkilled in ExcelStrong attention to detailAbout MedtronicTogether, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.Physical Job Requirements The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager, recruiter, or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America).
