Staff Planner: Remote Pilot Plant Scheduling & Strategy

Dexcom, Inc; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CGM technology impact

Comprehensive benefits

Global growth

Tuition reimbursement

Employee development

Job summary

Dexcom is seeking a Staff Planner for the San Diego Innovation Center to orchestrate pilot plant activities across R&D, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing. You will align materials, equipment, resources, and schedules to accelerate innovation while ensuring operational excellence.

The role offers influence on strategic priorities, opportunities to drive continuous improvement, and exposure to a global CGM technology leader with comprehensive benefits and growth prospects.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8-12 years of related experience.
• At this level a graduate degree may be desirable with 4 years of related experience

Responsibilities

• You develop and maintain integrated production, development, and resource schedules supporting pilot manufacturing, process development, engineering builds, validation activities, and technology transfer programs.
• You serve as the primary planning coordinator across Manufacturing, R&D, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management to ensure alignment of priorities and execution plans.
• You coordinate material readiness and inventory planning activities to ensure availability of components and supplies required for pilot plant operations.
• You drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on planning processes, scheduling methodologies, system utilization, and operational efficiency.
• You act as a planning subject matter expert, providing guidance and recommendations that influence operational and strategic decisions across the Innovation Center.
• You facilitate planning reviews and communicate schedule status, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to leadership and project teams.
• You proactively identify scheduling conflicts, resource constraints, and material risks, driving mitigation plans to maintain project milestones and operational commitments.

Skills

ERP systems

Excel & BI tools

NPI / tech transfer

Process improvement

APICS CSCP/CPIM

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree desirable

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Dexcom is seeking a Staff Planner for the San Diego Innovation Center to orchestrate pilot plant activities across R&D, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing. You will align materials, equipment, resources, and schedules to accelerate innovation while ensuring operational excellence.

The role offers influence on strategic priorities, opportunities to drive continuous improvement, and exposure to a global CGM technology leader with comprehensive benefits and growth prospects.