This role will support a premier, state-of-the-art facility, that is a key part of our client's Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) hub at their site in Rahway, NJ. This facility will be fully online in the next few years, both in terms of facility construction and organizational realization. The GMP facility is designed for multi-product operations with flexible operating suites, which can adjust as the clinical pipeline demands change. It is capable of meeting all historic, currently existing, and cutting-edge biologics program demands from supporting development to pilot scale, small and large scale potent material handling, and the ability to integrate new technologies and cell-line platforms.
The Master Scheduler will be a member of the NGB Facility Team. In this role, this individual will be responsible for the facility capacity planning, and scheduling and coordination of critical operational readiness tasks. Additionally, this individual will be managing both short- and long-term activities and projects, be a key contributor to determining how work is achieved, and support delivery of MRL's expansive biologics portfolio and clinical supply needs.
Responsibilities :
- Member of the NGB capital project delivery team, who is connected into all project actions and timelines, and supports engagement of business critical timelines, ensures alignment between the facility capacity plan and finite schedule.
- Leader providing project management and logistical oversight of the Operational readiness plan, which will ensure teams are ready to seamlessly start operations at facility startup
- Provide transparency into ongoing NGB organizational and workstream activities, and track / trend performance in key business KPI metrics
- Work closely with enterprise capacity planning roles to generate capacity models, along with other longer term facility schedules
- Work with end-to-end facility functions to enable continuous improvement of the underlining capacity assumptions
- Ensure product demand is kept current in the site's ERP system in line with the material planning cycle
- Lead facility supply governance forums
Required Education, Experience and Skills :
Bachelor of Science, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, microbiology, or related discipline with minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or a master's degree with minimum of 3 years of relevant experienceAt least 5+ years of previous project management & planning experience.Preferred Experience & Skills :
Track record of working effectively with team-members of diverse skill sets and backgroundsStrong presentations and verbal / written communication skillsExperienced in the administration of GMPs, Good Documentation Practices (GDPs), and S&E regulations as it pertains to biologics developmentExcellent attention to detail, highly independent with initiativeExcellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skillsAbility to challenge the status quo with a continuous improvement mindsetStrong analytical and presentation skills.Proficient in ERP systems (COMET / SAP in particular), planning software and system interfaces.