Production Planner/Scheduler

General Information

Country United States

City Irvine, California

Functional Area Operations

Job Group Supply Chain

Employment Type Permanent Contract

Working time Full-time

At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your role

The Production Planner/Scheduler will create and optimize manufacturing schedules to meet Irvine's revenue targets. The incumbent will balance customer demand and requirements with the site's manufacturing capacity providing production schedules in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This position requires excellent communication and analytical skills and works closely with all departments to meet business goals and best-in-class customer service levels. The incumbent will work closely with Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance, Account Management, Engineering and Facilities, and Information Technology to achieve the client's timeline and department objectives.

Your profile

Responsibilities

• Develops, finalizes, and communicates a weekly production schedule for the site that balances customer demand with efficient plant utilization.

• Plans, prepares, and controls production schedules coordinating material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials meeting production requirements.

• Advises management of the status of work in progress; material availability; and potential production problems to ensure that personnel; equipment; materials, and services are delivered as needed.

• Schedules equipment; confirms material supply and demands; establishes ROP/ROQs based on forecasts and capacity.

• Drive schedule that triggers work orders or purchase requests for the production or purchase of supporting facets of a master production schedule; CER load and inventory requirements.

• Development and maintenance of scheduling KPIs (Production Schedule Performance, inventory turns, schedule adherence, etc.).

• Maintains and reports key site metrics and KPI presentations to key stakeholders and Corporate leaders as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree with 3+ years' experience in production scheduling within a cGMP manufacturing environment.

• Experience entering and retrieving data in ERP or MRP systems.

• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical production scheduling concepts.

• Bachelor's degree.

• APICS and Lean Six Sigma certifications a plus.

• SAP or Oracle ERP systems experience.

• Working knowledge of Excel.

Salary Range: $65,000 - $80,000

Job Type: Full-time

Working at Siegfried

Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.

Who we are

In the Midst of People's Lives

• Across the Globe The Siegfried Group is one of the world's leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model. The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers' value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.

What we do in Irvine

Irvine is one of Siegfried's sterile drug product manufacturing sites, providing contract development and manufacturing services (CDMO) specializing in difficult to manufacture pharmaceuticals, ophthalmics, and drug delivery devices.

Main activities

• Provides cGMP sterile drug product fill finish of biologics, suspensions, emulsions, ointments, and gels

• All fully cGMP and SHE compliant

Features

• Commercial Products: 5 automated filling lines, Commercial manufacturing, Batch sizes up to 150 K units, Fill Volumes 0.5 ml

• 100 ml

• Semi-automated and automated visual inspection

• Automated packaging with digital data visual verification

• Stability study services

• Drug delivery

• Laboratory services

• Clinical Products small lot capability (semi-automated filling, batch sizes up to 5 K units)

• Clinical manufacturing (batch sizes less than 5 K units)

Strategic importance

• CDMO for innovative and difficult-to-manufacture products from clinical to commercial NDA and ANDA products

• Provides contract sterile drug product manufacturing and laboratory services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries