Production & Planner

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

As Production Planner you will, under limited supervision provides production planning/scheduling, inventory management, or distribution support to maintain production operations and customer product availability.

• Analyze planning requirements and initiate appropriate action to support the master schedule or independent demands.
• Schedule Manufacturing Operation to ensure availability of items under planners' control with minimum negative impact on manufacturing
• Facilitate weekly ITP meeting with CFT to align on production needs vs available capacity
• Ensure work-in-process availability Inventory
• Forecast requirements and schedule production to meet these requirements.
• Perform system maintenance and updates to insure database integrity for planning fields and files.
• Utilize personal computer tools to perform analysis and provide recommendations to management.
• Maintain raw material and work in process inventories in accordance with pre-determined inventory levels and targets.
• Recommend procurement strategies for internal and external supplies compatible with economic, supply and quality goals.
• Understand raw materials needs and translate these needs into inventory plans and strategies.
• Manage material flow from external and internal suppliers through manufacturing channels to achieve maximum production efficiency, minimizing waste and impacts to customers.
• Understands and applies manufacturing systems, interpolates manufacturing requirements.

• BA or BS preferred and 1-2 years operations/distribution experience, or directly relevant technical experience sufficient to demonstrate the knowledge typically associated with the degree and experience requirement.
• Proficient in Power BI and Microsoft Excel with strong analytical foundation

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.