Production Scheduler
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Mid
Bachelor's
Nashville, TN, USA
In Person
Operations & LogisticsProduction Planning & Scheduling
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 3 years of production scheduling or planning experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or sterile/aseptic manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of aseptic processing concepts, including isolators or RABS, cleanroom classifications, media fills, and autoclave cycles.
- Experience with enterprise resource planning or advanced planning and scheduling systems such as SAP, Oracle, JDE, PlanetTogether, Kinaxis, or similar.
- Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookups, and experience with scheduling or Gantt tools.
- A solid understanding of current Good Manufacturing Practices, batch record processes, and regulated manufacturing documentation.
- The ability to manage multiple shifting priorities under time pressure.
- The ability to communicate across functions and present schedule risks to operations leadership.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain rolling detailed production schedules across dispensing, compounding, filling lines, visual inspection, and packaging suites.
- Sequence batches to minimize changeover time, cleaning and sanitization cycles, and gowning transitions while respecting product segregation.
- Adjust schedules in real time for deviations, equipment downtime, material delays, quality-control hold times, or client priority changes, and communicate impacts promptly.
- Model suite, equipment, and labor capacity constraints to identify bottlenecks.
- Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering on preventive maintenance and calibration scheduling to minimize production disruption.
- Flag capacity gaps or overbooking risks to leadership and propose mitigation options.
- Align detailed schedules with the Master Production Schedule, demand plan, and client-committed delivery dates.
- Coordinate with Warehouse and Materials Management to confirm raw material, component, and primary packaging availability before scheduled batches.
- Work with Quality Assurance to sequence batch record issuance, in-process testing, and release timelines.
- Support Client Services and Program Management with schedule visibility, risk communication, and root-cause input for schedule-adherence metrics.
- Maintain accurate schedule data in the enterprise resource planning system.
- Ensure batch numbers, lot genealogy, and campaign sequencing are correctly reflected across scheduling and quality systems.
- Generate schedule-adherence, on-time-in-full, and utilization reports for operations reviews.
- Support root-cause analysis for schedule misses and participate in corrective and preventive action activities related to planning and scheduling.
- Operate within current Good Manufacturing Practices, data-integrity, and site standard operating procedure requirements, and complete required training.
- Participate in Sales and Operations Planning and tiered daily-management meetings, providing schedule status and escalating risks.
Desired Qualifications
- Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization experience is strongly preferred.
About the company
August Bioservices is a US-based CDMO offering end-to-end drug development and manufacturing from pre-clinical to commercial. It combines large-CDMO scale with a customer-focused hybrid model to serve startups and big pharma. It provides full development programs including research, development, testing, lab services, and sterile fill/finish under one integrated process, ensuring cGMP and FDA-quality standards. Its goal is to help clients bring safe, effective drugs to market efficiently through a seamless, integrated pathway.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$88.6M
Headquarters
Nashville, Tennessee
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Vial filling qualified in July 2026, unlocking throughput from the $60 million expansion.
- Series B funding in 2025 financed an additional high-speed vial suite and automation.
- August Bioservices' 2026 event calendar signals active business development across BIO, CPHI, and Contract Pharma.
What critics are saying
- Sterile injectable capacity takes roughly 30 months to qualify, delaying revenue from expansion.
- A single FDA contamination finding can halt lines, erase customer trust, and trigger recalls.
- Specialization in sterile injectables concentrates exposure if outsourcing demand shifts or major clients leave.
What makes August Bioservices unique
- Nashville campus offers sterile injectables, development, and manufacturing on one contiguous site.
- August Bio runs fully isolated vial, syringe, and IV bag lines with in-house analytics.
- The 2026 site integrates automated inspection, labeling, packaging, and serialization for faster releases.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays