Manufacturing Planning Manager

Lead and manage workflow and priorities of the manufacturing planning teamCreate and ensure standard work is maintained across the site and the within the planning organizationCreate and maintain manufacturing production schedules that optimize plant operational efficiency given the supply plan requirements.Day to day responsibility for overseeing the implementation of these production schedules including releasing, auditing and closure of work orders, as well as collaboration and communication with Manufacturing teams to ensure their proper execution.Communicate and resolve production scheduling issues at plant level and escalate critical unresolved issues effectively to Manufacturing, S&OE and Global sourcing.Collaboration with Manufacturing and Supply & Operations Execution(S&OE) teams to identify opportunities for continuous improvements to the scheduling and manufacturing processesDrive systemic performance improvements in production planning and validate the improvements through defined KPI’s and leverage the Smiths Excellence to drive continuous improvement to those KPI’sMaintain assigned master data and work closely with manufacturing engineering to ensure proper BOM and routing structures.Develop team members (direct reports) through coaching, mentoring and providing transparent feedbackAdditional duties as assigned.