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A Day in the Life

Cranial & Spinal Technologies: Part of the Neuroscience portfolio Cranial and Spinal Technologies (CST) is redefining cranial and spinal procedures to reduce variability and improve outcomes with the goal of restoring long-term quality of life for more patients. CST is comprised of four global businesses: Spine & Biologics Enabling Technologies intelligent Data Solutions (iDS) and China Cranial Spinal Orthopedics & Technologies.
Spine & Biologics offers procedural solutions for spine surgery and bone grafting solutions for spinal fusion.
Enabling Technologies delivers an innovative portfolio which include robotics navigation intra-operative imaging advanced energy devices cerebral spinal fluid management and critical care.


The Production Planner Plan the schedule for the lines and value stream in the Humacao site. The planning scope goes from the machining process to the shipment of the final products.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Plans prepares issues and controls production schedules and directs material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of raw and approved finished goods materials timed to meet production requirements.
• Advises management of the status of work in progress material availability inventory levels and potential production or material supply disruptions to ensure that personnel equipment materials and services are provided on-time and at an optimal cost.
• Schedules equipment and personnel confirms material supply and demands prepares work orders or purchase requests for the production or purchase of components or parts based on a master production schedule shop load and inventory requirements.
• Coordinates interdepartmental activity with quality assurance manufacturing purchasing engineering inventory control traffic demand planning etc.; schedules and expedites the movement of parts by means of move orders stock transfers and requests for shipping orders.
• Monitor the Schedule attainment for the lines that is managing in the site for the machining plan and for the shipment plan.
• Understand from the operations team the misses to schedule attainment and the root causes of the misses.
• Prepare the weekly plan for the surface treatment materials that support the shipment plan he creates.

Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

Nice to have:

SAP knowledge.

Planning experience in manufacturing plant

Inventory control

Kanban management

Blue yonder (planning platform) knowledge

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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