Planner, Senior Staff

Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus, and we invest in a team who represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering life-saving medical devices through innovative materials science, engineering, and manufacturing. We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we accomplish this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

We are looking for a Planner, Senior Staff to join our team in Costa Rica. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and making an impact on our life-saving work, this may be a good fit for you! As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will: Be responsible for delivering insightful financial guidance to operations, conduct budgeting & forecasting, value-added business analysis, identify and analyze continuous improvement opportunities to achieve P&L and Balance Sheet targets for the site / Platforms / Value Streams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Participates and leads discussion with costumers around delivery schedules.
• Analyzes, recommends and implements processes and procedures to provide accurate results on the
• inventory control of raw and/or any other materials.
• Develop strategic objectives that focus on areas of quality, cost, flexibility, productivity and speed.
• Demonstrate the ability to consistently deliver products and services to meet customer needs.
• Influence junior peers on continuous process improvement as an accepted way of life in business.
• Accurately identify risks that affect supply, transformation, delivery and customer demand and set mitigation plans independently.
• Visualize the total process and aid in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems.
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline, Master's degree is a plus.

Ability to work in a self-managed work team environment.

Wiliness to work different work schedules.

Advanced level in written and oral English communication skills required.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.

Experience with reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Experience solving practical problems and dealing with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

This position description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. The incumbent(s) will typically perform other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities.