Production Planner

About the role

Working at Abbott

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

The Opportunity

The Production Planner supports manufacturing operations at Abbott Molecular Diagnostics in Des Plaines, Illinois. In this role, you will be responsible for production planning and scheduling, inventory management, and distribution support to ensure products are available to meet customer demand. Working with limited supervision, you'll coordinate production activities, balance inventory levels, and help maintain the flow of materials needed to support efficient manufacturing operations.

What You'll Work On

• 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 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 ensure 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 need 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.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Supply Chain management; Operations Management; Engineering; Related science or equivalent.
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous operations experience and exposure to manufacturing materials principles and concepts

Additional information

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:

Pay and benefits

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00

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

• JOB FAMILY: Manufacturing
• DIVISION: AMD Molecular
• LOCATION: United States > Des Plaines: DP01

Additional Locations

• WORK SHIFT: Standard
• TRAVEL: No
• MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable

Significant Work Activities

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)