Production Planner

Job Title:	Production Planner III
Duration:	12 Months+ (Possible Extension)
Location:	Portsmouth, NH 03801 (Onsite)
Schedule:	Business Hours

Area: Manufacturing in GMP setting.

Summary:

• The Production Scheduler is responsible for proactively maintaining and continuously improving the pre-campaign schedule. Perform at least 5/10 (first 5 listed below) to ensure the departmental schedules are accurate and communicated to all relevant departments to drive short term execution of plans.
• Ensure all schedules are created respecting existing labor and asset capacities and achievable based on planned material availabilities. Drive timely resolution of all scheduling conflicts with relevant stakeholders.

Education:

• HS Diploma or equivalent may be considered with relevant experience.

Key Accountabilities:

• Create, track and maintain schedules to provide visibility to defined departments to drive short term execution of plans.
• Incorporate input from all relevant departments to ensure schedules are realistic within relevant constraints and latest information.
• Drive optimization of schedules by balancing demand priorities against optimal production sequencing and efficient resource (facility/suite, equipment, staff, materials etc.) utilization.
• Ensure all feedback regarding changes to existing plans is incorporated into schedules in timely manner.
• Maintain detailed planning and scheduling parameters in planning system to allow optimal use of system scheduling functionality.
• Generate relevant KPI and operational measures to support identification of trends or root causing of sub-optimal performance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills:

• Ability to understand and execute significant projects with minimal guidance.
• The employee is living the cultural beliefs with the flexibility to adapt to changing business priorities.
• Is open to and actively seeks out feedback on their performance and translates that feedback into action.
• Must have the ability to work in a fast paced, high workload environment, be intrinsically motivated, and able to manage multiple projects.
• Must be proactive, action oriented, and have the ability to adapt to a change.
• Must have excellent communication skills both verbally and written.
• Ability to work under time constraints and deadlines with potential workload changes and competing demands.
• Competent using MS Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to measure and report metrics (KPIs) and help to identify issues through peers.
• Adherence to cGMPs is required at all times during the manufacture of APIs. All personnel own the quality of what they deliver and are responsible for notifying responsible management in a timely manner of regulatory inspections, serious GMP deficiencies, process deviations, product defects and related actions.

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