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At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

An Associate Operations Planner helps to drive production related planning activity at their site. This involves synthesizing various inputs in order to develop a daily/shift level production schedule, which will serve as the primary driver for the production facility. Additionally, the production schedule must be maintained and updated to reflect production misses, overages, requests from central supply chain planning for changes, etc. The Associate Operations Planner must also communicate changes to the plant, and to central supply chain in order to maintain reliable production plans. In doing so, this position helps Zimmer Biomet commit to the highest standards of patient safety and quality in our products and services and to world-class and ethical business practices.

How You'll Create Impact

Strategy & Vision

+ Maintains and modifies the production schedule, and communicates it to manufacturing operations and others, as necessary

Operations

+ Analyze the master production schedule from central supply chain for capability gaps to create the daily and shift level production plans

+ Receive communication and action on updated plan relating to high impact events

+ Conduct capability reviews, and communicate parameter changes across the organization

+ Act as a primary point of contact for other branches of Supply Chain, to take questions related to site planning, and execute on follow up items

+ Participate in the continual improvement of planning practices to ensure best in class production planning capability of individual plant, and Zimmer Biomet as a whole

+ Collaborate within the production planning function to ensure standard process

+ Communicate with E2E planner regarding supply disruptions or changes to the master production schedule

+ Monitor the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and manage inventory accuracy

+ Monitor the integrity of the routings and work center capacities, updating as necessary

_This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise all of the essential functions for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act._

What Makes You Stand Out

+ Knowledge of supply chain planning and management · Strong communication skills

+ Ability to work to deadlines and produce outputs on a regular, timely basis

+ Understanding of end to end supply chain interactions, activities, and underlying interdependencies

+ Ability to use analytical tools to issue, support, and execute decisions

+ Analytical skills and ability to extract meaning information from various sources of data

+ Ability to communicate effectively both upwards and across the organization

Your Background

+ BS or BA in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or other related field

+ 0-3 years of experience in supply chain, project management, planning, or IT systems

+ Planning experience preferred

+ Experience with medical devices preferred

+ Experience with one or more ERP system preferred

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability