Production Planner III
Location: Portsmouth, NH
Duration: 12+ Months
Job Description - Job Details: Focus on describing what the job will be doing (primary responsibilities)
- 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.
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.
Supervision Received - Close Supervision: The incumbent is assigned duties according to specified procedures and receives detailed instructions. Work is checked frequently.
- Supervision: The incumbent performs a variety of routine work within established policies and procedures and receives detailed instructions on new projects and assignments.
- General Supervision: The incumbent normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and receives general instructions on new assignments.
- Direction: The incumbent establishes methods and procedures for attaining specific goals and objectives, and receives guidance in terms of broad goals. Only the final results of work are typically reviewed.
- General Direction The incumbent exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
Qualifications: Education: Degree (required): HS Diploma or equivalent may be considered with relevant experience.
Degree (preferred) B.A. or B.S.
Field of Study Life Sciences or Education
Language(s) Required* English Ability Level 2 - Business Fluent
Certifications (incl. professional qualifications) i.e. ACCA, GPHR, CIPS, PgMP Work Experience Area: Manufacturing in GMP setting Level* Advanced - 5-10 years
Area Operations Level Entry Level - 0-4 years
Competencies & Behaviors Agility Learns from experience, errors, and setbacks
Helps others learn from experience to develop themselves
Challenges the status quo and looks for opportunities to make improvements in his/her area of the business and beyond
Embraces new initiatives and drives successful implementation in his/her area
Business Acumen* Provides feedback to his/her managers on the content of the strategy and its implementation
Sets and delivers on individual and team objectives that support the company strategy Uses knowledge of his/her business area and related areas to make correct and timely decisions
Uses knowledge of his/her own business area and related areas to identify and develop operational/financial improvements
Collaboration Works in partnership as an active member of his/her team and cross functionally
Generously shares information and knowledge with others across teams and functions
Actively seeks out and shares different perspectives from a broad network and implements alternative approaches
Champions and role models the values of diversity and inclusion
Customer Focus Proactively seeks to understand internal/external customer needs
Develops insights that can be used to enhance customer satisfaction or other metrics Identifies when company and customer interests may not align and seeks effective solutions to resolve or escalate
Uses systematic approaches to ensure customer key metrics are tracked and analyzed for continuous improvement
Driving Results* Establishes and consistently delivers on KPIs and challenging goals for him/herself (and team) Proactively shares credit for successes Helps peers (and team) overcome performance obstacles and challenges Secures buy-in from key stakeholders Ensures delivery excellence for own goals and those of his/her team Regularly solicits, assesses and addresses feedback Appropriately prioritizes multiple demands and leads defined work to successful conclusion on time
Leadership* Supports others in taking responsibility for a safe and sustainable environment Takes personal accountability for outcomes resulting from choices and behaviors of self and team environment Seeks and provides feedback to their team to support professional development Takes personal accountability for defining and implementing his/her own development and supports others to do same Creates a positive work environment for his/her team and demonstrates high integrity Ensures clear and direct 2-way communication within his/her team and other organizations
Responsibilities Quality: 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.
Safety: Must know and follow job safety procedures, attend required health and safety training, proactively promote safety at work, and promptly report actual and potential accidents and injuries. Must comply with safety policies of the company and site.
Skills What analytical capabilities or niche skillset does this role require? 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.
