Manufacturing Planner/Scheduler III

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• HS Diploma or GED is required

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• 5 years Supply Chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
• BS in Supply Chain, Engineering, or another business or technical field preferred.
• Formal process improvement / operational excellence training is preferred.
• Experience in enterprise business systems and business software.
• Previous production scheduling experience preferred.
• SAP experience required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

• Strong leadership skills and ability to manage conflict and drive resolutions.
• Ability to pull data and compile to formulate improvement initiatives across the department.
• Ability to inspire, foster innovation, collaborate, and effectively manage cross-functional teams.
• Concise and effective written, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Ability to support multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent MS Office skills
• Strong understanding of GMP requirements
• Organized and able to work independently with minimal supervision.

• Create a schedule for commercial manufacturing work stream in line with scheduling parameters aligned with operation partners, ensuring maximum asset and labor utilization.
• Collaborate with Planning and Project Management teams to ensure production readiness; enable schedule stability and resolve conflicts.
• Maintain SAP and Taylor master data integrity.
• Own and report key metrics, including scheduled attainment and OTIF.
• Lead Value Stream and Manufacturing Review huddles.
• Collaborate with Planners and S&OP Planner for required SAP changes to routings.
• Create strong relationships with cross-functional teams to enable collaboration and process improvements.
• Lead / participate in weekly Readiness reviews.
  Support other scheduling functions, including backup to Packaging/PDS Scheduler.