Production Planner/Scheduler

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
Join our collaborative team as a Materials Planner III, where you'll play a key role in translating customer and project requirements into an executable and optimized packaging schedule. The role will be instrumental in partnering with strategic stakeholders across Packaging Operations, Client Services, Quality, Supply Chain, and Technical Operations. You will also work with the Operations Planner to support planning deployment, resource assignment, and material planning. The role will be responsible for maintaining visibility to near-term and mid-term packaging schedules, evaluating daily capacity and readiness, identifying constraints, and working with the rest of the Planning department on proactively adjusting the schedule to maximize operational output.

This position requires more than maintaining an established schedule. The successful candidate will continuously evaluate available work, labor, equipment, packaging rooms, and project readiness to identify creative opportunities to increase throughput, minimize downtime, and make the best use of available capacity in a dynamic clinical packaging environment.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Advanced Degree plus 3 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of experience in supply chain/planning, materials management, or procurement in an operations or manufacturing environment preferred.
• APICS certifications (CPIM, CSCP) preferred
• Lean/Six Sigma certification beneficial
• Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JDE) and advanced Excel skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail
• Experience with MRP/DRP concepts and inventory management principles
• Ability to develop and maintain material planning parameters (safety stocks, lead times, order quantities)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience conducting supply planning meetings with key stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and report on key metrics (inventory turns, service levels, backorders)
• Knowledge of manufacturing concepts and principles
• Ability to work independently and make decisions within defined parameters
• Project management experience with continuous improvement initiatives
• Additional languages beneficial
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environment (cGMP) preferred
• Ability to adapt in a results-oriented environment

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!

Other

Relocation assistance is not provided.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future, without sponsorship.

Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.