Production Scheduler

Job description

Job Description

PURPOSE
Drives short term scheduling providing the shop floor detailed finite schedules, defining and optimizing production sequences, releasing orders to production and ensuring materials and capacity availability for the Wilson site. Collaborates daily with Production Business Unit Managers to determine progress of work, adherence to planned completion dates and escalates production problems and/or delays.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provide detailed and attainable daily/weekly/monthly schedule to work center teams • Synchronize bulk manufacturing to the packaging schedule to meet defined release dates • Maintain production schedules and other reports as required • Collaborate with shop floor management on a daily basis to resolve issues regarding manufacturing efficiencies • Provide additional information as requested from Manufacturing, Planning and Finance • Campaign schedule to minimize change-over complexity and maximize opportunity to attain planned production volume • Communicate work center priorities based on Supply Chain communication regarding customer demand and stock out position • Schedule pre-planned capacity impacting maintenance and engineering trials within capacity constraints • Collaborate with Supply Chain Planners and other cross functional managers, on material supply/release, component supply/release, and documentation readiness for planned process order start dates • Communicates the required completion of batch record reviews in bulk and packaging to meet cycle time objectives. • Participate in analyzing and implementing changes inside Finite Scheduling Time Fence.

Posting Title

Production Scheduler

Desired profile

Minimum requirements

Education: Bachelors Degree Preferred

Language: Fluent in written and spoken English

Experience: 3 years experience in supply Chain and/or manufacturing environment or combination of experience and related education. Working knowledge and understanding of, Microsoft Excel, SAP, SMS Office preferred.
Job Type

Full Time
Country

USA
Work Location

Wilson, NC
Functional Area

Technical Operations
Division

Novartis Technical Operations
Business Unit

NTO SOLIDS
Employment Type

Regular
Company/Legal Entity

Eon Labs Inc
EEO Statement

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.