Production Planner 4646 - The Staffing Resource Group, Inc

Production Planner

SRG offers flexible staffing solutions with a national presence. We provide contract, contract-to-hire, direct hire and executive search services. SRG utilizes an innovative approach to identify and qualify talent that is unique to the Staffing industry, featuring a cutting-edge platform that allows us to rapidly and precisely match professionals to client requirements. We have a proprietary database of over one million candidates and maintain continuous contact with our qualified talent.

Environment: A global leader and trusted supplier in the pharma, biotech and specialty ingredients markets. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the company is focused on advanced manufacturing, high-quality control systems, regulatory expertise, and research and development (R&D) capabilities. The company s products and services include active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), stem cell therapies, drinking water sanitizers, vitamin B compounds, organic personal care ingredients, industrial preservatives and microbial control solution to combat viruses, bacteria and other dangerous pathogens.

Title: Production Planner
Location: Portsmouth, NH
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Hours: M-F: 8AM-5PM
Salary: $34.89 hourly paid weekly (Benefits Available)
Employment Type: Long term contract

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.

Duties may include any of the following:

• 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.

Position Skills Required:
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.

Position Requirements:

• Degree (required)* HS Diploma or equivalent may be considered with relevant experience
• Degree (preferred) B.A. or B.S.

• Manufacturing in GMP setting 5- 10 years
• Operations - 0 - 4 years

EOE/ADA
IND123
#LI-SRG14