Production Planning Manager

Production Planning Manager

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper—every day, Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

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The Production Planning Manager supports the planning and inventory control functions, maximizing plant resources to meet or exceed planned results in inventory levels and operating costs. Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments and manufacturing unit(s) according to the production schedule to provide exceptional service to customers. Coordinate the monthly SOP planning process within the supply planning function to ensure plants can communicate requirements to achieve forecasted demand.

Responsibilities

• Manages the production planning functions, including development, maintenance, and execution of the master production schedule, and maximizes plant resources to meet demand. Organizes and coordinates various sections of manufacturing. Follow up performance against estimates.
• Manages effective and service-oriented planning functions to ensure that correct procedures are established and adhered to achieve the maximum return possible on customer orders, while continually improving responsiveness, reliability, and service.
• Manages site inventory, including raw materials, work in process, and finished goods. Responsible for optimizing inventory levels to support customer demand fulfillment. Generate regular reporting of inventory, highlighting inventory health to drive continuous improvement.
• Coordinate the monthly SOP supply review process for the business unit, ensuring capacity or staffing constraints are understood and communicated effectively.
• Lead the supply planning strategy and analysis of multi-site manufacturing, supporting the business unit's product management decisions on longer-term production allocation, optimizing costs and capacity.

The essential requirements of this role include:

Education/Experience

• BS in Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business discipline required; MBA preferred.
• 7 years of production planning experience.

Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Analytical skills - able to create and utilize spreadsheet models tracking demand, supply, and inventory, including multiple scenarios.
• Able to quickly merge data from multiple sources, manipulate it, and present it intelligibly to explain the situation (i.e., tell the story).
• Highly proficient in MS Office tools, SAP, and other data or visualization tools is a plus.
• Effective communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good record of KPIs improvement, on-time delivery, lead time, cost, and Inventory reduction, Supplier development, etc.
• Certified in Lean Manufacturing, 6 Sigma, or similar.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.

The annual salary range for this role is $125,000 to $145,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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