Senior Production Scheduler (338)
About The Position
This on-site position at Civica’s Petersburg, Virginia site plays a crucial role in ensuring the efficient and timely production of pharmaceuticals. In collaboration with stakeholders, the Senior Production Scheduler maintains and improves the production facility’s planning and scheduling process. The role creates and maintains near-term and longer-term production schedules, prioritizes critical-path production activities, and identifies opportunities to support other studies, protocols, and maintenance or calibration activities. Proactively identifying and resolving schedule conflicts is important to success. The ideal candidate is responsive and flexible, communicates articulately and succinctly, and demonstrates a strong presence across the functional teams that support the facility. The Petersburg site is Civica’s new fill-finish facility, dedicated to manufacturing and supplying essential sterile small-molecule and biologic injectable medications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- At least six years of experience in production scheduling in pharmaceutical, biotech, or another regulated production environment.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and address scheduling challenges in fast-paced production environments.
- Detail-oriented, with a focus on accuracy when creating and updating production schedules in real time.
- Strong Excel skills and proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Able to meet aseptic gowning requirements, procedures, and certification.
- Occasionally able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Nice To Haves
- Proficiency with scheduling software such as Smartsheet or MS Project.
- Working knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, regulatory requirements, and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).
Responsibilities
- Evaluate current and future production processes to identify key workflows and dependencies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and facilitate and oversee a comprehensive production scheduling process that meets production requirements and proactively resolves conflicts.
- Assess allocation of areas, equipment, utilities, and teams to ensure appropriate visibility and enable adjustments as needed.
- Optimize scheduling tools and systems, evaluate schedule adherence, drive continuous improvement, and improve efficiency.
- Develop and maintain near-term and longer-term production schedules.
- Lead daily and weekly meetings with cross-functional staff to evaluate schedule adherence, identify root causes, and reschedule carryover work into new windows of opportunity.
- Coordinate with procurement to support availability of materials required for scheduled activities.
- Adjust production schedules in response to changes in demand, material availability, or unforeseen disruptions.
- Validate level loading and work balancing, and schedule preventive maintenance and calibration activities to minimize production impact.
- Communicate production schedules and changes to relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor and analyze production data to identify trends and improvement opportunities; implement best practices to enhance production efficiency.
- Prepare regular reports on production schedule adherence and ensure they are accessible to key stakeholders.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
