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Thermo Fisher Scientific

Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies

Manufacturing Planner 2

Production Planning & SchedulingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeFrederick, MD, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • Three years of supply chain or planning experience with a degree, or four years of experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Three years of experience working in a regulated CGMP manufacturing plant, preferably in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industries.
  • Knowledge of inventory control techniques and confirmed understanding and application of planning functions related to Capacity Planning (CPS), Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and interfacing systems such as quality assurance and forecasting.
  • Experience using an enterprise resource planning system; SAP, Oracle, or JDE E1 experience is preferred.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Excel.
  • Ability to work independently, typically initiating tasks with input or mentorship from a manager, and to work within a global operations organization and with external clients.

Responsibilities

  • Generate supply plans to fulfill requirements of the demand plan, working with manufacturing and procurement teams across value streams to ensure supply is available within the planning horizon using enterprise resource planning systems.
  • Deliver customer fulfillment targets while limiting working capital costs to inventory entitlement.
  • Deploy new process changes and templates, and work on cross-functional projects to account for organizational changes.
  • Build short- and long-term production plans and generate orders that fulfill demand requirements and help the business meet revenue targets.
  • Implement and maintain supply planning processes and initiatives across regions, business units, and product groups.
  • Collaborate with partners in procurement, marketing, sales, finance, and site-wide operations groups.
  • Support the development of key performance indicator results and maintain them at target to support supply and demand consensus.
  • Identify capacity constraints and collaborate with manufacturing teams to resolve them across regional manufacturing sites.
  • Coordinate planning and manufacturing teams to achieve schedule attainment based on constraints in supply, capacity, equipment, or other operational factors.
  • Manage inventory entitlement for assigned SKUs to sustain global supply health while minimizing expired, excess, and obsolete inventory risks.

Desired Qualifications

  • A bachelor's or associate degree is preferred.
  • Experience with SAP, Oracle, or JDE E1 is preferred.
  • Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industries is preferred.

About the Company

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Makes lab instruments, reagents and supplies

Thermo Fisher Scientific makes and sells the instruments, chemicals, consumables and lab services that drug companies, hospitals, universities and industrial labs use for research, testing and production. Its products cover work from gene sequencing and protein analysis to diagnostic tests and lab freezers, and its distribution arm ships supplies to labs worldwide. Drug developers also hire it to run clinical trials and to manufacture medicines under contract. It earns money from consumables that labs buy again and again, along with instrument sales, service contracts and outsourcing fees. The company traces its roots to Thermo Electron, founded in 1956, which merged with Fisher Scientific in 2006, and it is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Waltham, MA
Founded
1956

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