- Location
- Alajuela, Costa Rica
- Type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Source
- Workday
Description
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)
