Planner, Manufacturing ​/ Production, Operations Engineer

About Company

Mizuho OSI is the leader in the markets for specialty surgery and patient positioning. The company’s portfolio includes specialty surgical tables for procedure‑specific approaches that improve patient outcomes in spine and orthopedic surgeries along with disposable and reusable surgical patient care products.

The Planner executes the Master Schedule for assigned products by creating a Production Plan in support of the Material Requirements Plan (MRP) and direction of management. The planner is responsible for the planning, scheduling, and coordinating of products through the complete production cycle ensuring inventory and asset management controls are utilized. The goal is to provide the right amount of material at the right time to satisfy customers.

This role is part of a cross functional team that develops Lean stocking and build strategies that maximize material coverage while minimizing costs and resources. This is a materials leadership role that will drive continuous improvement activities to achieve desired results. The Planner works with our customers educating them and integrating our Lean manufacturing methods.

• Plan production according to the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Material Requirements Plan (MRP) requirements, including but not limited to work order creation, on‑going maintenance, and variance reconciliation.
• Publish production schedules and assure adherence by working with all functional areas to ensure proper and timely material flow to meet production requirements.
• Follow Manufacturing Routers to have products built per print or reworked per instructions.
• Communicate, track, and expedite any material shortages or other problems that affect the production plan or sales order backlog.
• Manage capacity overruns in Assembly and Machine Shop by balancing machine and other resource demands.
• Communicate completion schedules of assigned products as required.
• Evaluate Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), and ensure proper implementation on assigned products including:
  • Establish effectivity dates that appropriately balance cost impact and customer service.
  • Initiate, monitor, and ensure closure on any purge, rework, and scrap actions consistent with ECN instructions.
  • Evaluate projected costs of ECN implementations. Comprehensive analysis is often required.
  • After implementation determine total cost of ECN.
• Monitor and take action on past due work orders, cancel process messages, MRB balances, safety stock levels, and any other order act on recommendations.
• In assigned areas, utilize Lean / Demand flow skills to drive the replenishment of inventories throughout the process. This includes establishing control cycles and supermarket quantities. Sales or other usage may trigger replenishment builds / deliveries from our suppliers as well as our machine shop.
• Participate in the evaluation of costs, methodology, and processes to streamline the materials flow through manufacturing.
• Assume materials responsibilities and roles for assigned value streams.
• Establish, manage, and update control cycles and kanbans for assigned value streams.
• Manage build priorities based upon effective utilization of the Heijunka boards.
• Manage part lot sizes to help support the demand flow production process balancing cost with material coverage.
• Work to reduce set‑up times/costs to increase capacity and the number of runs while decreasing the run quantities.
• Ensuring the use of lean manufacturing tools such as continuous improvement, metrics reporting, 5S and visual controls.
• Plan the addition of new product demands on the machine shop resources and assess capacity shortfalls.
• Management of Material Master Data elements including but not limited to Procurement Type, MRP Controller, In house Production Time, Planned Delivery time, Schedule Margin key, Lot Size, and Replenishment Lead Time for Planning and/or purchasing.
• Planning responsibilities may be in Production Assembly and/or the Machine Shop.
• Other duties include the processing of Trade Show returns.
• Understand Mizuho OSI’s business objectives and the relationship between the Department and those objectives; to support and follow…