Production Planner

Your Job

Phillips Medisize, a Molex company is seeking a Production Planner to maximize the effectiveness of both pre-production and production manufacturing processes at our Hudson, WI facility. In this role, you will be responsible for planning and communicating build activities across the organization to ensure seamless operations. You will establish and maintain strong, mutually rewarding relationships with both internal teams and external customers by prioritizing and meeting customer expectations. By engaging cross-functional resources and the broader team, you will play a critical part in delivering high-quality products on time, supporting our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.

Our Team

At Philips Medisize, we aspire to be the preferred partner of choice for leading global customers, to create innovative products that help people around the world live healthier, more productive lives. We are an end-to-end provider of innovation, development, and manufacturing solutions to the medical, regulated products, automotive, consumer and defense markets. Companies count on Phillips Medisize to bring their breakthrough ideas and innovative branded products to market - with confidence. As a contract design and manufacturing organization (CDMO), we work closely with our customers to deliver proven, highly engineered products.

What You Will Do

• Manage and communicate build schedules across multiple programs to optimize on-time delivery (OTD) and meet program timelines.
• Act as liaison between Program Managers, Project Engineers, and Operations to ensure alignment and timely issue resolution.
• Coordinate with vendors and Operations to track the status of parts sent for secondary operations and ensure on-schedule completion.
• Prioritize shipments internally to minimize premium freight costs while meeting customer commitments.
• Serve as backup Buyer, handling procurement tasks as needed to support operations continuity.
• Notify Program Managers and Project Engineers of changes impacting cost such as price adjustments, overtime premiums, and expedited requests.
• Forecast and monitor weekly resource and machine capacity requirements to maximize production efficiency and reduce overtime.
• Oversee end-to-end production scheduling, considering preventative maintenance and planned downtime to ensure on-time shipments.
• Manage ERP system order entry, prioritization, and adjustments to support accurate production workflows.
• Ensure availability of all required components, documentation, subassemblies, supplies, and equipment for scheduled jobs, including coordination with other facilities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word and Excel
• Experience using ERP systems; SAP preferred.
• Experience with basic inventory, production control techniques, JIT, work cells, and self-managed teams
• Bachelor's degree in Production Management, Supply Chain, or Operations OR Bachelor's degree with concentration in scheduling, materials management or customer service OR 2+ years' related experience in manufacturing facility with scheduling, inventory or materials management experience

What Will Put You Ahead

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Ability to independently manage tasks while also functioning effectively in a team setting.

This position does not qualify for VISA Sponsorship.

In order to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, this position requires applicants to either provide proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status or be eligible to receive an export authorization (a license) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Molex company, Phillips-Medisize mobilizes and deploys specialized capabilities and services across highly regulated industries, including health care, regulated consumer, automotive and defense. We design, develop and create innovative and life-changing medical technologies for millions of people around the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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