Ops Scheduler

Lonza; Schweiz; Presencial; Vertraulich; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lonza in Switzerland seeks a Production Scheduler to coordinate mid-scale operations across upstream and downstream production, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery.

You will develop integrated operation plans, collaborate across multiple departments, and contribute to the Master Production Schedule while seeking throughput improvements in a manufacturing environment.

Formación

• Several years (>3 years) of experience in either supply planning or project planning for pharmaceuticals, as well as experience in production environment.
• Fluent in English
• Experience using planning tools such as Microsoft Project, Schedule Pro, Orchestrate, Excel.
• Strong ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple departments.

Responsabilidades

• Development of an integrated plan for coordination of all operational activities with consideration to process, facility, and resource requirements.
• Other scheduling activities include equipment/facility maintenance planning, customer and audit visitations, and large and small plant changes including qualification activities.
• Collaboration with Supply Planning, Bioprocess engineers, Production shift leads, Manufacturing Science and Technology, Engineering, EMR, Lonza Services departments to coordinate operational and maintenance activities.
• Contributes to the Master Production Schedule (MPS) based on supply planning.
• Responsible for capacity modelling including facility throughput improvements.
• Proactively develop strategies to anticipate or counteract possible future supply bottlenecks.
• Active development of measures to improve planning accuracy (process and system optimization).
• Authoring and reviewing GMP-relevant documents and SOPs.
• Preparing and reviewing quality records such as change controls.

Conocimientos

Fluent English

German language (desirable)

Cross-department coordination

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's degree in supply chain or biotechnology

Herramientas

Microsoft Project

Schedule Pro

Orchestrate

Excel

Trackwise

DMS

SAP

MES Syncade

Descripción del empleo

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three 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.

As member of the Manufacturing Support Team, the Production Scheduler performs the holistic operations planning for mid-scale operations including upstream and downstream production with regard to safety, quality standards and on-time-in full delivery.

General functional responsibilities:

• Development of an integrated plan for the coordination of all operational activities with consideration to process, facility, and resource requirements.
• Other scheduling activities include equipment/facility maintenance planning, customer and audit visitations, as well as the coordination of large and small plant changes including qualification activities
• Collaboration with Supply Planning, Bioprocess engineers, Production shift leads, Manufacturing Science and Technology, Engineering, EMR, Lonza Services departments to coordinate operational and maintenance activities
• Contributes to the Master Production Schedule (MPS) based on supply planning
• Responsible for capacity modelling including facility throughput improvements
• Proactively develop strategies to anticipate or counteract possible future supply bottlenecks
• Active development of measures to improve planning accuracy (process and system optimization)
• Authoring and reviewing GMP-relevant documents and SOPs
• Preparing and reviewing quality records such as change controls

Project-specific responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving performance through dashboards, Hoshin boards and other reporting tools

Job requirements:

• Several years (>3 years in total) of experience in either supply planning or project planning for pharmaceuticals, as well as experience in production environment
• Fluent in English
• Experience using planning tools such as Microsoft Project, Schedule Pro, Orchestrate, Excel.
• Strong ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple departments

Additional desired skills and experience:

• Proficiency in German is highly desirable
• Experience with Trackwise, DMS, SAP, MES Syncade

Required education and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in supply chain or biotechnology.
• Alternatively, relevant work experience in biotechnology production environment

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 meaningful 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 significant difference.