Staff Analyst, Capacity Planning

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, 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.

As a global leader in clinical diagnostics, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has challenged convention to elevate the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving patient health for more than 90 years. Our diagnostic solutions are used in routine and complex clinical testing, and are used in hospitals, reference and research laboratories, and physician offices around the world. Every hour around the world, more than one million tests are run on Beckman Coulter Diagnostics systems, impacting 1.2 billion patients and more than three million clinicians per year. From uncovering the next clinical breakthrough, to rapid and reliable sample analysis, to more rigorous decision making—we are enabling clinicians to deliver the best possible care to their patients with improved efficiency, clinical confidence, adaptive collaboration, and accelerated intelligence.

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The Capacity Planning, Staff Analyst, will be responsible for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing capacity risk across our global portfolio of manufacturing processes and production lines. In addition, the role will translate demand into capacity needs across Beckman Coulter’s extended value streams with critical suppliers and OEMs. This role partners closely with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Management and Commercial Teams to ensure feasible, data driven capacity plans that balance demand growth, throughput, labor, equipment, and material constraints opportunities.

This position reports directly the Senior Director of PSI and is part of the Global Supply Chain Organization located in Chaska, Minnesota and will be an on-site role

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and maintain long range end‑to‑end capacity models for complex manufacturing lines (multi-step, variable cycle times, shared resources). Deploy standard repeatable process across our product lines globally
• Support global portfolio growth by leading standard processes of assessing global capacity needs and proactively identifying areas of risks; strong leadership and impactful communication across cross-functional teams to drive proactive risk mitigation projects
• Perform what‑if scenario analysis to evaluate demand changes, mix shifts, new product introductions, and process improvements.

The essential requirements of the job include

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain Management or related field with 9+ years of experience or Master's degree with 7+ years of experience or Doctorial degree with 4+ years of experience
• Demonstrated experience modeling capacity for complex manufacturing processes (not just simple rate-based planning).

• Experience supporting S&OP / IBP or long-range capacity planning.
• ERP planning system experience (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Kinaxis, OMP); depth of experience with modeling tools and advanced analytics

Up to 20% travel.

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, 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.

The annual salary range OR the hourly range for this role is between 120,000- 150,000 This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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