Production Scheduler 18-month secondment Fixed Term Contract FTC
Production Scheduler 18-month secondment Fixed Term Contract FTC
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This role is aligned to support the OSD (Oral & Solid Dose) department and reports into the Scheduling Manager at the GSK Ware manufacturing site. The purpose of the role is to create and execute a (upto) 13week rolling production schedule to fulfil the order book whilst optimising manufacturing flow and inventory. Working in a GMP environment you will keep records (both paper and electronic) up to date and in line with data integrity.
Summary of Key Responsibilities:
Create an optimised schedule in the business ERP system to fulfil the customer order book.
Facilitate the scheduling meeting to lock the schedule for the first week ensuring lineside schedule availability in a timely manner.
Apply the defined scheduling methodology (eg; Make to Order Make to Stock Fixed Repeating Schedule etc).
Review and action exception messages and escalate issues affecting supply plans.
Generate trend and drive Conformance to Schedule (CtP) and Plan Stability via defined Tiered Accountability Process (TAP) and escalate issues as required to site and customer interfaces.
Provide a clear understanding of any issues effecting delivery of the order book and associated actions to the aligned value stream team through the Order Fulfilment Meeting.
Monitor and manage inventory in line with shelf life and inventory target requirements.
Ensure timely right firsttime availability of Process Orders including batch and allocation of materials.
Support product life cycle management including the setup of manufactured materials.
Fixed Term Contract (FTC) Please note that this Fixed Term Contract (FTC) is due to run for 18months.
About You:
This role would suit a selfmotivated person who has experience of working in a crossfunctional global supply organisation. You will be resilient and calm under pressure. You will have excellent attention to detail strong people skills and a proven ability to influence people to achieve and drive performance. You will have a strong continuous improvement mindset and strong demonstrable organisational skills. Experience and competence in the use of SAP / ERP would be preferred.
About Ware Manufacturing Site:
We are colocated with our R&D colleagues and recently opened a new stateoftheart oral solid dose facility at Ware. At this location our scientists technicians and engineers (from R&D and Global Supply Chain GSC) work collaboratively together (using the latest technologies) to rapidly knowledge transfer and deliver GSKs most innovative medicines faster and more efficiently. On site we produce over 60 million respiratory inhalers each year with growing demand in future years. The site also processes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for use both on site and other manufacturing sites in our network.
CLOSING DATE for applications: Wednesday 16th of April 2025 (COB).
Basic Qualifications:
Relevant experience / qualifications (eg; supplychain scheduling)
Analytical Proficiency.
Operational knowledge and understanding of manufacturing processes associated with a dosage form.
Experience working in a cGMP aligned pharmaceutical environment.
Qualification in Supply Chain MRP (ideally).
Benefits:
GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees which include but are not limited to:
Competitive base Salary
Annual bonus based on company performance
Opportunities to partake in on the job training courses
Opportunities to attend and participate in industry conferences
Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership (GSK are accredited by IET IMechE IChemE and other professional bodies)
Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
Employee recognition programmes
If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK GSK.
Why GSK
Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger more sustainable shareholder returns as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases HIV respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders its also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves feeling welcome valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So if you share our ambition join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer we are open to all talent. In the US we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity race/ethnicity colour national origin religion gender pregnancy marital status sexual orientation gender identity/expression age disability genetic information military service covered/protected veteran status or any other federal state or local protected class**US only).
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