Planner, Staff

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.

At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus, and we invest in a team who represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering life-saving medical devices through innovative materials science, engineering, and manufacturing. We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we accomplish this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Summary:

The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating planning of materials required to manufacture and scheduling activities to support one or more product lines located in Warwick, Rhode Island (USA)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• 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 Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Strong communication skills in English (B2+)
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in production planning, materials management, or manufacturing operations.
• 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)

This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. Other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities will typically be performed by the incumbent(s).