Site Scheduler (Biotech)

 

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there's no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is dedicated people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of in Lonza.

This position is based in our Portsmouth, NH facility and is eligible for a hybrid work schedule in accordance with management guidance.

Job Summary:

The Production Scheduler is responsible for proactively maintaining and continuously improving the production schedule.

This person is responsible for ensuring the departmental schedules are accurate and communicated to all relevant departments to drive short-term execution of plans. The Scheduler also ensures that all schedules are created respecting existing labor and asset capacities and achievable based on planned material availabilities. The Scheduler drives timely resolution of all scheduling conflicts with relevant collaborators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create, track and maintain the short-term schedules to provide insight 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
• Maintain accurate production schedule, providing data for the MRP process to meet production demands
• Review documents such as production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to determine personnel and materials requirements, and material priorities
• Monitor production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials, and quality control measures, using this information for Continuous Improvement activities such as maintenance of routings and BOM's, increasing accuracy of production schedule and efficiency reporting

Key Requirements:

• High School diploma/GED or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
• At least 5 years Supply Chain work experience.
• Ability to influence both Supply Chain and functional leaders to support production optimization recommendations.
• Good communication and presentation skills. Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to measure and report metrics (KPI's) and help to identify issues through peers and manager through root cause analysis.
• Ability to use production scheduling systems.
• Competent using MS Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to utilize Business Intelligence systems to extract data and generate reports.

Every day, Lonza's products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package including performance-related bonus, medical and dental coverage, 401k plan, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off (PTO), and more.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.