Production Planner

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions. Location: Clayton NC (Level Commensurate with Experience): Jr. Production Planner / Production Planner / Sr. Production Planner / Production Planning Specialist Summary: Responsible for scheduling daily WIP inventories to enable annual sales of greater than $2 billion in a highly regulated environment. Material selection, scheduling, and assigned quality testing must meet the regulatory and quality requirements of the intended markets while maximizing throughput. The Production Planner must possess process knowledge of manufacturing interdependencies, constraints, and requirements to efficiently schedule their assigned area and react quickly to situations where contingency plans are required. The Production Planner drives plasma production in their assigned area and therefore must be able to communicate requirements to meet company goals to customers within their assigned area. The Production Planner manages daily communication between the Production and Supply Planning Departments and their assigned production areas and must be able to analyze, communicate, negotiate, and initiate complex situations in order to support company success. Primary responsibilities for role: Create weekly production schedules within the capacity constraints [product, equipment or labor] as identified for each work center. Schedule effectively to achieve delivery performance, maximize throughput and meet product outdate objectives for assigned production area. Create weekly production schedules that align with capacities in upstream and downstream departments. Coordinates production to utilize equipment and manpower to meet production throughput targets and the release plan while balancing targets for interfacing schedules such as project, validation, and maintenance work. Monitors pace of production ensuring timelines are met. Communicate production status to Managers and internal customers on a regular basis. Analyze delays and propose solutions to achieve deadlines. Issues batch numbers, product codes, product inspection lots (including additional testing, if required for a specific customer), environmental monitoring inspection lots and serialization information based on source plasma specification and the regulatory requirements of the intended market. Controls WIP with daily value in excess of $500M in support of greater than $2 billion in sales. Correctly combines intermediate materials from multiple sources and specifications. Monitors all WIP inventory. Tracks inventory to avoid write-offs due to expiration. Manages proper inventory levels established for each WIP stage to avoid shortages and excesses. Selects WIP to maximize throughput for stages with excess inventory. Ensures timely identification and destruction of excess WIP inventory. Monitors upstream and downstream production areas to proactively adjust based on performance of supplying/receiving departments Provides input to departmental priorities based on needs of market/division. Acts as a liaison for Supply Chain between Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality. Establishes departmental priorities based on needs of market/division. Acts as a liaison for Supply Chain between Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality. Recommends changes in manufacturing equipment/personnel utilization to meet supply requirements. Publishes weekly and monthly site performance reports. Utilizes SAP for Production Planning, Inspection Lot Assignment, and Inventory Management transactions and generation of weekly sched…

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