Senior Production Planner - TekWissen LLC

Overview:

TekWissen group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a leading biotechnology company that combines technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise, and process excellence and helps their customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. Our client specializes in pharmaceutical ingredients, Bioscience, Biopharmaceuticals, Custom manufacturing, Biotechnology, Life science ingredients, Nutrition, Microbial Control, Agriculture, Materials Science, Personal Care, and cell and gene therapy.

Job Title: Senior Production Planner

Location: Portsmouth, NH - 03801

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

• 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.

• 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.

• 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
• 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.

• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience in production planning and or scheduling
• HS Diploma or equivalent may be considered with relevant experience
• BA or BS in lifescience background is preferred
• Experience in a GMP Manufacturing environment
• 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.