Manufacturing Planner

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

**Location/Division Specific Information**:
Allschwil Switzerland

**Discover Impactful Work**:
**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Single Point of contact for all queries regarding ship dates, timelines, availability of material, rush requests and other delivery topics
- Coordinates and communicates with internal stakeholders and FCS Sites delivery dates based on packaging dates and material availability.
- Schedules all jobs and equipment for Allschwil in the printshop with the goal of exceeding customer expectations (OTD) but keeping in mind internal capabilities
- Advise the supervisors (IPI and Production Coding) of current workload and agrees on resource planning
- Reviews and revises the master schedule daily and makes changes as business needs dictate.
- Processes and responds to rush requests
- Pro-actively checks the availability of materials, components and resources
- Builds and maintains rapport and cooperative relationships with internal departments and sister sites
- Anticipates the future workload based on packaging schedule, incoming job request and other tools
- Advises Label PMs and/or manager of any unexpected material shortfalls
- Develop and propose alternative scenarios to remove constraints and enable a more effective job execution
- Notifies managers of any potential changes with regards to the schedule that requires immediate action and/or potential problems
- Checks daily status of completed and shipped jobs in GPM
- Defines Production Runs sequence as needed to maximize productivity and internal operations efficiency
- Includes PPI into the daily work
- Applies Good Manufacturing Principles in all areas

**Education**:

- Requires professional degree, preferably in a health related field or customer service.

**Experience**:

- Requires 2+ years of experience scheduling preferably within a manufacturing environment

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**:

- Requires excellent organizational, planning, verbal, written and numerical skills with the ability to analyze and define solutions and manage multiple tasks to meet strict deadlines.
- Fluency written and spoken in German and English
- Requires excellent communication, organizational skills
- Requires ability to develop strong customer management skills; proactively anticipates, understands, and responds to the needs of clients to meet or exceed their expectations.
- Demonstrated excellent ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel.
- Requires ability to learn and master all internal systems associated with projects (i.e. Salesforce, GPMS, Trackwise).
- Requires understanding and competent use of SOPs required by company Quality standards

**Benefits**:
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.