Production Planner/Scheduler

Lonza • Houston, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Production Planner/Scheduler creates and maintains short-term production schedules that give relevant departments visibility and support execution of production plans. The role incorporates input from relevant departments to ensure schedules reflect current information and operational constraints, and optimizes sequencing and use of facilities, equipment, staff, and materials. It maintains accurate production schedules and planning parameters to support MRP and production demand.

The position reviews production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to establish personnel and material requirements and priorities. It works with New Product Introduction to establish bills of material, routing, equipment requirements, staffing needs, and cost projections. The role plans production commitments and timetables using sales forecasts, monitors production and quality data for continuous improvement, incorporates plan changes promptly, and generates KPIs and operational measures to identify trends and root causes of suboptimal performance.

The position is located in Houston, Texas, United States. Lonza describes its workplace as inclusive and ethical and highlights collaboration, accountability, excellence, passion, and integrity as core values.

Requirements

• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, and Customer Operations.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and accurate in a fast-paced planning environment.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills to identify supply risks and inventory challenges and develop mitigation plans.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, build stakeholder relationships, and drive alignment toward business objectives.
• Experience managing inventory, material requirements, production planning, and supply continuity while meeting customer demand.
• Proficiency in SAP, Microsoft Excel, and inventory management or planning systems, with ability to analyze and interpret complex data.
• Ability to deliver results under tight deadlines, adapt to changing priorities, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Create, track, and maintain short-term schedules that provide visibility to relevant departments and drive execution of plans.
• Incorporate input from relevant departments and account for constraints and current information when developing schedules.
• Optimize schedules by balancing demand priorities with production sequencing and efficient use of facilities, equipment, staff, and materials.
• Maintain accurate production schedules and provide data for the MRP process to meet production demands.
• Review production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to determine personnel and material requirements and priorities.
• Work with New Product Introduction to establish bills of material, routing, equipment requirements, staffing needs, and cost projections.
• Plan production commitments and timetables for business units, programs, and jobs using sales forecasts.
• Monitor production volume, raw-material consumption, and quality-control measures and use the information for continuous improvement.
• Incorporate feedback and changes to existing plans into schedules in a timely manner.
• Maintain planning and scheduling parameters in the planning system to support optimal use of its scheduling functionality.
• Generate KPIs and operational measures to identify trends and root causes of suboptimal performance.

Benefits

• A variety of benefits dependent on role and location; the full global benefits list is available on Lonza's careers website.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed