Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain detailed short-term and long-term production schedules for commercial manufacturing, validation, engineering, and technology transfer activities.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing, MSAT, Warehouse, QC, QA, Supply Chain, and Project teams to ensure schedules are feasible and executable.
• Monitor production progress and proactively identify potential scheduling conflicts, bottlenecks, and capacity constraints.
• Optimize utilization of manufacturing equipment, cleanrooms, personnel, and supporting resources.
• Align production schedules with customer demand, project timelines, and business priorities.
• Support startup planning and readiness activities for new manufacturing lines and facilities.
• Track availability of materials, components, single-use systems, and consumables required for manufacturing.
• Coordinate schedule changes resulting from deviations, equipment downtime, material shortages, client priorities, or project requirements.
• Facilitate routine production planning meetings and communicate schedule updates to stakeholders.
• Generate and maintain planning metrics, including schedule adherence, facility utilization, on-time delivery, and manufacturing lead times.
• Support annual, quarterly, and monthly capacity planning exercises.
• Prepare production forecasts and scenario analyses to support business decisions.
• Work with QA, QC, and Warehouse teams to ensure alignment of batch release, sampling, testing, and material movement activities.
• Support NPI, process validation, technology transfer, and commercial manufacturing campaigns.
• Utilize ERP, MES, scheduling, and planning systems to manage production activities.
• Ensure production plans comply with cGMP, quality requirements, and business objectives.
• Support audit and inspection readiness related to production planning and scheduling activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business, Operations Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in production planning, scheduling, manufacturing operations, supply chain, or related functions.
• Strong understanding of production planning, capacity management, and manufacturing scheduling principles.
• Proficient in ERP/MRP systems (SAP preferred) and Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of cGMP manufacturing operations is desirable.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CDMO, or aseptic manufacturing environments is preferred.
• APICS/CPIM certification is an advantage.