For our client, a leading biotechnology company, we are seeking a Production Planner.
General Information:
- Start date: ASAP
- Duration: 12 months with the possibility of extension or internalization
- Workplace: Luterbach, Solothurn
- Workload: 100%
- Home office: possible, from time to time
- Working hours: Standard
About the job:
The Production Planner supports manufacturing planning, scheduling, and changeover activities for the Drug Substance (DS) Manufacturing Site, supporting both clinical and commercial programs as well as the CQV phase. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining accurate, detailed daily production schedules and medium-term production plans used by Manufacturing, Materials, Quality, Engineering, Validation, and Plant Management. You will also support facility readiness, changeover, and maintenance project schedules. Proactively identifying constraints, suggesting alternative solutions, confirming resource requirements, and driving issue resolution across teams are key aspects of this position.
Tasks & responsibilities:
- Developing the site manufacturing schedule for day to day operations and supporting planning activities for long term timelines.
- Responsible for tactical day-to-day scheduling and product changeover timelines that meet the production demand plan.
- Interacting with manufacturing personnel to determine current completion state of production operation activities and to clarify any schedule updates/changes.
- Supporting facility project schedules for shutdown work, commissioning, validation, change-over, routine/non-routine facilities maintenance activities.
Requirements:
- Education: Minimum Associate’s degree (AA) in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related business/science/technical field, Bachelor’s degree (BS) preferred.
- Experience: 3–5+ years of operational scheduling or planning experience strictly within a GMP-regulated biotech or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
- Technical Understanding: Strong practical knowledge of biopharmaceutical drug substance manufacturing processes and on-the-floor operations.
- Advanced IT & Analytics Skills: Expert-level proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas) and Power BI (or similar data visualization tools).
- ERP/Planning Systems: Hands-on experience with enterprise management and scheduling software (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Infor, or specialized scheduling systems).
Soft Skills:
- Independent worker with minimal supervision; customer focused and team player
- Clearly and actively communicates planning, scheduling and changeover information or process issues with affected parties in a timely manner.
- Ability to recognize opportunities for improvement in systems or processes and recommend solutions
- Ability to identify obstacles and escalate appropriately
- Recognizes and performs regular responsibilities, while pursuing learning of new skills and/or processes
- Ability to influence without authority, pro-actively builds healthy working relationships between their department and other groups
Sounds interesting? Apply now – we’re looking forward to receiving your applications!
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