Production Planner

Would you like to work for a company who has made it its mission to make a contribution to improving human living conditions? With around 5,000 employees worldwide Eppendorf is a leading Life Sciences company. We develop and distribute devices, consumables and services for use in laboratories worldwide. Our daily work is characterized by our principle: Collaborate on new ideas. You would like to be in an environment in which you can work in a team in a collaborative and respectful manner? At Eppendorf you will be working, together with your team, on products that really make a difference. You are also motivated by practical work? Then apply now!

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Your challenges

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall production planning process of the assigned product group(s)
• Supports in inventory management, incl. bin location setup, Kanban setup, physical inventory, warehousing, and goods receipt (if needed)
• Enforces, cooperates with and complies with all company inventory control policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
• Observance and compliance to applicable corporate standards in Eppendorf's Quality Management System required as well.

Tasks:

• Maintaining the Master Production Schedule (Demand planning)
• Initiate and maintain the Material Requirement Planning (MRP) system to
• ensure the timely release of material to support an efficient build process
• Planning of all production processes in order to meet production dates
• Generating, releasing and processing of work orders
• Providing and maintaining the Routing Papers (in paper and/or electronically) for all production processes
• Communicate accurate requirements to the Purchasing Department
• Determines and maintains stock levels for manufactured parts based of historical usage and forecast analysis
• Determines and maintains optimized production lot sizes based on optimal capacity utilization and desired stock levels and ensures accuracy of production lead times for manufactured parts

Your expertise

• Two-year (Associates) technical/engineering college degree or certificate and three to four years' related experience and/or training; equivalent combination of education and experience. Proven Production Planning qualifications (e.g. APICS CPIM designation) would be a significant plus.

• ** Employment at Eppendorf in the United States and Canada requires vaccination against COVID-19. All new hires must be vaccinated against COVID-19, or, have a qualified medical or religious exemption, prior to the start of employment**

Your benefits at Eppendorf

• Competitive total rewards package including health, financial, and education benefits
• Innovative and Collaborative corporate culture
• Contribute to improving the human living condition
• Direct impact on business

Please note that we can only consider applications that are submitted online via our application management tool.

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