Production Planner at Spirax-Sarco Ltd.

Job Title: Production Planner
Location: US Supply - Devens
Location Type: On-Site
Salary: USD 62,738.00 - 94,107.00 Salaried
Requisition Closing date: 08/12/2025
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

This role will focus on:

The successful Production Planner will plan, schedule, coordinate and/or monitor the flow of products through the complete production cycle. Provide timely planning and scheduling of manufacturing work orders to the manufacturing floor in order to achieve both internal financial goals and customer delivery dates. 

Key Accountabilities include

• You will be responsible for reviewing open sales orders to determine customer requirements.  .
• Coordinating delivery of parts to expedite flow of material to meet production schedules
• You will manage inventory levels to ensure that production demands are met.. This includes working with manufacturing, engineering, quality and warehouse.  You will monitor inventory levels and establish safety stock levels over a set horizon
• Utilize ERP system to generate manufacturing work orders/kanbans and release work orders/kanbans to warehouse for picking and delivery to manufacturing. 
• Coordinate between warehouse and purchasing on material shortages to determine new delivery and completion dates for end products. This includes development of shortage lists as required
• Notify Customer service of any schedule impacts to customers via the consensus plan
• Establish, track and maintain consensus plan by reports, such as production progress, customer information and material inventory.  Exercise judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Interacting with cross functional groups and prioritizing your product line

Skills/Experience

• You have the ability to analyze and understand MRP data within an ERP system. 
• You will need to be able to address safety stock inventory levels and demand forecasts. Make informed decisions and develop effective production schedules and recovery plans.
• Understanding of high level Revenue requirements for your program and impacts associated with schedule changes
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, BOM’s in a manufacturing environment.  
• You can effectively communicate, collaborate with internal teams, and can convey information clearly and concisely. You are able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• The ability to adapt to changing priorities, and project requirements is essential in Planning. You must be flexible and agile in your approach to meet evolving business needs
• You prioritize customer needs and requirements, whether it's internal stakeholders such as production teams or external customers. Ensuring that materials are available on time and meeting quality standards as it is essential for customer satisfaction!
• As a Production planner you must conduct yourself ethically in all interactions with colleagues, and stakeholders to maintain trust and credibility as part of our values

This position offers a salary range of $62738 – $94107. Final salary offers are determined by multiple factors, including education, experience, internal equity, geographic location, and the candidate’s expertise, and therefore may vary from the range listed. For roles based outside Massachusetts, the applicable salary range may be lower.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a 5% employer 401K contribution, plus a 50% match on up to 3% of your contributions for added financial security, empowering your financial security.
• Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being day, 9 observed holidays, 1 floating holiday day, up to 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
• Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
• And Many More Benefits: Such as an offering of 3 healthcare plans with HSA contributions along with other benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.