Production Planner (a)

This role owns the end-to-end finite production schedule, acting as the central coordination point between manufacturing, engineering, facilities, and support functions to ensure smooth, compliant shop floor operations. It focuses on capacity planning, schedule adherence, and continuous optimization in a GMP biologics manufacturing environment, including the deployment of advanced scheduling and RTMS models.

Prestigious pharmaceutical company

Description

• Act as the single point of contact for the day-to-day management of the finite schedule managing shop floor manufacturing and facility activities
• Coordinate between operations, process engineering, automation, facility engineering, microbiology and other related functions to govern what happens within the process area
• Attend daily tier meetings (Tier 1 and Tier 2)
• Update the schedule daily
• Align the Site Plan of Record with the Finite Schedule to ensure consistency and accuracy and work closely with technology transfer to project the scenarios of new product introduction and proactive planning of new activities
• Enable the seamless execution of activities encompassing objectives of Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Plant Engineering, Calibrations, Lab, and Warehouse operationWork with network experts to develop a road map to fully deploy RTMS functionality to enable increase facility capacity utilization and resource assignment and evaluation
• Fully build out RTMS operations models for fed batch and continuous manufacturing paradigms
• Collaborate cross functionally to performing debottlenecking exercises and partnering with Manufacturing Technology and Strategy on Capacity Ramp and Utilization Strategy
• Support the assessment of unforeseen events to the schedule and create mitigation plans
• Ensure accountability for schedule adherence, take ownership and escalation when issues arise. Work to ensure facility and manufacturing teams are fully allocated

Profile

Qualifications:

• Educational background in a relevant discipline
• A minimum of 2-5 years of work experience in the manufacturing of biologics under GMP, either in upstream or downstream processing
• Ability to solve problems and take new perspectives on existing solutions with a desire to continuously learn, improve and develop. Ability to perform under pressure in a complex GMP environment.
• Business Fluent in English and German:
• Effective oral / written communication skills in English (C1)
• Oral / written communication skills in German (B2)

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant discipline
• Familiarity with the use of SAP, MES, and scheduling tools
• Ability to work efficiently as part of a team, as well as willingness to take responsibility for independent projects

Job Offer

Interested to bring your planning skills to our clients need?
Im looking forward to your application.