Production Planner

Solvita comes from "sol" meaning sun and "vita" meaning life. As sunlight nurtures new life, we take the donor gift and transform it into new hope, bringing the light of healing to patients around the globe in need of tissue transplants. At Solvita, life transforms and reinvents because we believe that everyone deserves more time to live life to its fullest. From One to Many Solvita recovers, processes, and distributes human tissue grafts and is the nation's largest non-profit provider of skin grafts for burn patients. When you come to work at Solvita, a patient gets another chance and families make more memories. What you do here has a direct impact on lives around the world.

About the Role:

As a Production Planner, you will plan and prepare master processing schedules to meet customer needs while maximizing processing efficiency. You will also prepare and submit status and performance reports. This role collaborates closely with management, quality, and processing staff to ensure smooth operations throughout the processing and distribution life of Solvita products. Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and clear communication are essential for success.

Essential Functions:

* Works with Processing Managers on master scheduling and processing needs. Develops and maintains master schedule for donor allocation.

* Ensures tissues are processed within acceptable timeframes and that inventory levels are met and maintained.

* Creates and maintains PO fulfillment report cards to track yields, sessions processed vs target, and PO fulfillment.

* Provides feedback on the donor pool and makes recommendations on donor types and tissues to recover.

* Evaluate forecasts and POs, and new business opportunities for feasibility and report back to customers and sales team on whether we can meet customer requests.

* Integrated Business Planning Supply Review, as assigned.

* Reviews charts for proper documentation and donor suitability.

* Write donor processing instructions.

* Collaborate with the sales team and develop positive relationships with staff and customers to meet processing goals.

* Manages inventory by monitoring WIP and finished goods inventory and recommending planning changes/master schedule changes to maintain acceptable inventory levels.

* Collaborates with the sales team to determine customer requirements, the processing team to ensure those requirements are met, and with management to resolve any issues.

* Manages private label and OEM PO graft production to ensure on time delivery.

* Write and revise standard operating procedures and nonconformance reports.

Minimum Requirements:

Education & Experience

* High School diploma or equivalent.

* Proficiency in Microsoft Office

* Experience creating pivot tables and using formulas for data analysis in Microsoft Excel.

* Experience leading /managing projects independently.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. Drug Free Workplace Public Service Loan Forgiveness Eligible Employer