Order Fulfillment Planner

**Company Description**
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL SKILS & EXPERIANCE:

- Needs to understand Sales, Service, Manufacturing, Supply chain and data support systems.
- Analytical and Logical skills
- Communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
- Logical, measured and process driven individual with strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to operate at multiple levels within JC internal stakeholders.

**SPECIFIC DUTIES, ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** **INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO**:

- Collaborate with Supply Chain and Manufacturing teams to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best support customer needs.
- Support standardization; including KPIs, SOPs, and all other Planning tools.
- Working with the regions to drive performance improvements and implement scalable business processes.
- Business System excellence (ERP).
- Ability to identify and understand root cause to help streamline processes so that the Supply Chain can meet deadlines.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve workflow bottlenecks.
- Assist in the resolution of key supply and demand related issues.
- Notify Scheduling and Manufacturing teams of significant forecast or capacity changes on a timely basis.
- Assist with the coordination, facilitation, and documentation of regularly scheduled planning meetings.
- Utilize MRP systems to coordinate requirements to meet schedules while minimizing inventory.
- Tracking and monitoring Supply Chain performance, minimizing any variations to the planning cycle.
- Coordinate with other departments on production and supply chain objectives and schedules.
- Short and long-term planning to align supply and demand to support inventory objectives and customer needs

**MISSION CRITICAL COLLABORATION**:

- Collaborate with Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data & Analytics team on forecasts.

EHS REQUIREMENTS:

- Additional duties and responsibilities will vary based upon departmental needs.
- Complete all work in a safe manner and follow all safety requirements consistent with supporting the Company’s goals.
- Lifting guidelines in accordance with the Manual Lifting Guidelines noted in the Safety Handbook.
- Follow all environmental requirements consistent with supporting the company’s environmental performance goals.
- Complete, and actively participate in all other EHS training requirements.

**Qualifications**
Bachelors in BE- Mechanical

Min 4 to 6 years experience in similar industry
**Additional Information**

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.