Job Description
Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Shape the Future with Us!
At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.
Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The Production Planner is responsible for end‑to‑end production planning and scheduling to support manufacturing operations and customer delivery commitments. This role drives production schedule execution, finished goods inventory planning, and capacity alignment to meet Supply Chain Management KPIs.
This position reports to the Senior Manager, MD Assembly & Production Scheduling and is part of the Manufacturing and Operations team, located in Singapore, and will be an on‑site role.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Plan, release, and manage production schedules to support manufacturing execution and meet customer request dates, including timely work order creation and release to ensure uninterrupted production flow.
- Manage finished goods inventory planning by analyzing historical sales trends against PSI forecasts and translating insights into executable production plans that balance inventory targets, capacity utilization, and customer demand.
- Monitor capacity, risks, and operational issues, developing recovery plans to address quality issues, unplanned downtime, or supply disruptions, and highlighting risks that may impact schedule adherence or material availability.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with Manufacturing, Engineering, Global Sourcing, Quality Assurance, Buyers, and Order Fulfillment teams to ensure material readiness and support new product introduction (NPI) and end‑of‑life (EOL) transitions.
- Drive continuous improvement and governance by applying Danaher Business System tools, maintaining planning‑related master data in SAP, and ensuring compliance with Quality Management System and Environment, Health & Safety requirements.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
- Multiple years of experience in production planning, supply chain, or related functions within a manufacturing environment
- Hands‑on experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis for planning and reporting purposes.
- Experience supporting production scheduling and forecasting in a structured manufacturing or operations setting.
Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.