Job Description:
Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.
We're looking for a Planner, Staff to join our team in Costa Rica. The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating planning of materials required to manufacture and scheduling activities to support one or more product lines.
Travel: 30% of the time
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Develops and maintains production schedules and capacity plans to meet firm and forecasted orders, ensuring systems and databases are up to date.
- Prepares and manages production documentation, including traveler issuance, job closures, and order tracking.
- Plans and estimates material requirements, coordinating purchasing activities to support assigned product lines.
- Analyzes and implements process improvements to enhance inventory accuracy and production control efficiency.
- Collaborates with customers to review and align on delivery schedules.
- Recommends and executes improvements to planning and production control methods.
- Updates purchasing and planning documentation as needed.
- Ensures compliance with company and regulatory Health, Safety, and Environmental requirements.
- Monitors production progress to ensure orders meet required ship dates and avoid over- or under-shipment.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in production planning, materials management or medical device manufacturing operations.
- Strong communication skills in English (B2+)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and ERP/MRP systems.
Other Skills and Abilities
- Strong organizational and analytical skills with the ability to collect, interpret, and act on data.
- Skilled in preparing and delivering presentations to management and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to identify problems, analyze root causes, and develop sound solutions.
- Customer-focused mindset with the ability to respond professionally to internal and external inquiries.
- Tolerance for ambiguity
- Ability to synthesize information
- Knowledge in Theory of Constraints (TOC) and bottlenecks in production processes
- Knowledge / experience in SIOP processes (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning — Demand Management, Supply Management)
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- 4–6 or more years of related experience and/or training
- Proficiency with personal computers, email, databases, word processing, spreadsheets, and graphics software
- Ability to work in a self-managed team environment
- Ability to work differing work schedules
- Good written and oral English communication skills
- Ability to respond to customer, regulatory agency, and business community inquiries or complaints
- Ability to present information effectively to management, public groups, or boards
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Ability to supervise, manage, direct, train, develop, appraise, and assign personnel
Confluent Medical Technologies, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are considered solid, with medical, dental, and vision coverage described positively and HSA-eligible options supported by employer contributions. Feedback suggests core health coverage is a relative bright spot within the total package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is repeatedly highlighted as a positive element. Feedback suggests retirement provisions add meaningful value to total compensation.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in several engineering and managerial tracks, with role-specific pay bands viewed as strong in those paths. Feedback suggests certain professional roles receive competitive pay bands.
Confluent Medical Technologies, Inc. Insights
What We Do
Confluent Medical Technologies applies materials science to MedTech innovation. Confluent specializes in expert design and development of large-scale manufacturing specializing in interventional catheter-based devices and implants. Our key capabilities include Nitinol components and tubing, balloon and complex catheters, high-precision polymer tubing, and implantable textiles. We operate in 8 state-of-the-art facilities across the United States and Costa Rica and currently employ over 2,000 employees. Confluent has earned the confidence of leaders in the medical device community through a proven track record of innovation, engineering, and manufacturing.
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