Project Scheduling Planner
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Job Location:
Northridge, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 84800 - 127200
Posted on:
10-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Project Scheduling Planner Medtronic DiabetesAt Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
About Medtronic Diabetes
Our Diabetes Operating Unit is committed to transforming care for people living with diabetes worldwide. We develop advanced technologies such as insulin pumps continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems and digital health solutions to help patients achieve better outcomes and live healthier lives. Every project you support will directly impact millions of people managing diabetes every day.
Join Medtronics Diabetes Operating Unit as a Project Scheduling Planner in our Product Innovation Group. In this critical role youll support program and project management activities for diabetes products collaborating across multiple groups. Youll support the planning of new development projects and help ensure teams are well-coordinated aligned to the project deliverables.
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronics Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
Key Responsibilities
Support cross-functional teams in planning and monitoring new product development projects and ongoing lifecycle management of diabetes products.
Collaborate with Program/Project Managers to maintain schedules and dashboards.
Develop build and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) integrating multiple sub-project schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM) or other scheduling methodologies to ensure accurate planning and execution.
Perform advanced schedule analysis including critical path identification float analysis resource constraints and bottleneck detection to improve predictability and delivery performance.
Conduct schedule what-if scenario planning and recovery analysis to optimize timelines and mitigate delays.
Track project milestones deliverables and adherence to established processes and regulatory standards.
Support project risk management processes assess schedule impacts and recommend schedule optimization strategies.
Facilitate program planning meetings document decisions and follow up on action items to closure.
Prepare and deliver regular status reports to leadership and stakeholders.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the Product Innovation group and PMO processes.
Support project planning/scheduling aspects of ongoing projects serving as liaison between project management planning teams and line management.
Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and recommend interventions to resolve issues with project managers line managers and clients.
Communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure engagement and alignment with business objectives.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree with a minimum of 0 years relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Project PowerPoint Excel Word).
Project management or commercial product delivery experience.
Familiarity with advanced scheduling management tools (Microsoft Project Smartsheet Jira etc.).
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
Strong communication organization and problem-solving skills.
Experience working under FDA or other regulatory requirements.
Experience building and managing Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) integrating multiple schedules and developing master sub-project schedules using CPM or similar techniques.
Familiarity with agile project management and/or SAFe Agile Project Management.
Experience supporting teams in the development or commercialization of complex medical devices (e.g. insulin pumps CGM systems or digital health platforms).
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
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.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic Inc. (Medtronic) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County you can findhere a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Key Skills
- Primavera
- Primavera P6
- Transportation Planning
- Smartsheet
- Joint Operations
- Production Planning
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- Project Coordination
- Technical Support
About Company
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