Job Description

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Senior Planner in our St. Louis, MO facility controls and manages millions of dollars of inventory and shipments by properly scheduling and analyzing products derived from market forecasts, customer orders, and trend analysis and inputs these requirements into the planning system. The position entails developing weekly production requirements and releasing work orders, scheduling sales orders, interfacing with customer service, sales professionals, purchasing, engineering, and manufacturing to meet customer expectations.

What You’ll do as a Senior Planner

• Formulate the master production plan that best meets market forecasts, inventory objectives, and customer requirements based on value stream constraints
• Load MRP based on agreed-upon build plan driving site-level inventory spend.
• Escalate build interruptions for resolution to ensure excellent customer service.
• Schedule sales orders in Oracle to availability, SSQ lead-time and to best meet customer’s requirements.
• Work with Customer Sales Support to resolve scheduling issues and with Manufacturing to resolve any Purchasing and Production issues.
• Resolve daily MRP problems, including identifying product structure problems, input, and other errors.
• Participate in new product implementation and handle Phase-In/phase-out planning for their products.
• Monitor and report production schedule planning and manufacturing accuracy.
• Develop and maintain procedures and work instructions to support master planning.
• Constantly maintain, evaluate, recommend, and implement improvements in material requirements planning (MRP) to drive down inventory levels.
• Maintain and develop standard work as needed, train team members, and serve as a point of escalation when required.
• Provides inputs to demand planning on shipment schedules, plans, and forecasts based on capacity. (S&OP process).

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed

Required:

• High School diploma or GED and a minimum of 13 years of supply chain experience, including planning experience. 
• Experience with material requirements planning (MRP) and Master planning.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, or related field, and a minimum of 5 years of planning experience, preferred.
• Certification in related field (APICS) preferred.
• MBA or advanced degree a plus.
• Experience in Lean manufacturing environment preferred.
• Skills in Microsoft Excel and Oracle experience preferred

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, wellbeing, and financial future.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision benefits
• Long- and Short-Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add- on benefits / discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.  WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047 . This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.  We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.

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