Master Scheduler - Production Planner , GMP

Free Healthcare Option | Bonus Program | 401(k) with Match | College Loan Forgiveness
Core Values: Trustworthy, Relentless, Accountable, Collaborative, Customer-Focused, and Skilled

At Alcami, we deliver reliable solutions that unlock the potential of transformative medicines from discovery to commercialization, through trusted partnership with our clients, recognized industry expertise and proven regulatory track record.

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Job Summary:

The Master Scheduler drives results in a fast-paced environment, overseeing the generation, maintenance, analysis, and verification of the site's manufacturing asset production schedule while ensuring manufacturing readiness. This role is accountable for aligning with Quality cGMP compliance, process requirements, timelines, and revenue commitments, including asset availability to maximize efficiency and utilization. The Master Scheduler is responsible for designing, maintaining, and reporting key performance metrics (KPIs) for scheduling, execution, and capacity, as well as coordinating associated readiness activities. Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, this position fosters information exchange across sites and global functions to manage KPIs, report outputs, and resolve issues promptly. The role demands superior leadership behaviors and a strong focus on ensuring manufacturing readiness throughout all stages of production planning.

On-Site Expectations:

• 100% on-site position.

Responsibilities:

• Generates, manages, and analyzes the master manufacturing schedule for the site in alignment with all cross-functional and workflow inputs.
• Ensures efficient management of all communication processes to disseminate and share critical information.
• Provides feedback for financial forecast based upon capacity and current schedule.
• Creates, maintains, and reports performance metrics relating to scheduling adherence, capacity, and outputs.
• Evaluate and communicate asset capacity to support new business opportunities and strategic planning across functional groups.
• Facilitates Production Staging Meetings, prioritization and follow up of action item list.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, analytical, and project management departments to track all batch readiness items, ensuring production schedule adherence. This includes monitoring batch record documentation, material availability, specifications, sample documentation, and placing necessary orders for materials and supplies.
• Actively monitor the status of open purchase orders, place new orders as needed, and ensure on-time delivery of all materials.
• Promptly identify and resolve issues, communicate potential problems, and implement mitigation strategies to prevent future disruptions in the supply chain.
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of procurement controls, including requisitions and approvals.
• Place orders proactively, execute associated Purchase Orders in a timely manner, and continuously refine the ordering process to improve efficiency and reduce lead times.
• Collaborate with procurement and production teams to monitor and manage key materials, including APIs and controlled substances, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of related experience required.
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing required, sterile manufacturing experience preferred.
• SAP experience preferred.
• APICS certification preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal communication, written communication, documentation, negotiation, critical thinking, analytical, problem solving, detail orientation, organization and time management skills required.
• Knowledge of cGMP, inventory management, and manufacturing preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Outlook) required.
• Experience with scheduling software and ERP systems preferred.

Travel Expectations:

• Up to 5% domestic travel.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to frequently stand, walk, sit; talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee is required some of the time to reach with hands and arms. The employee is required occasionally to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. There is no special vision requirement for this job. The employee may occasionally work near moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals.

About Us:

Alcami is a contract development and manufacturing organization headquartered in North Carolina with over 40 years of experience advancing products through every stage of the development lifecycle. At Alcami, we are a team of dynamic, agile individuals committed to developing life-saving drugs around the world. A mindset of collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, accountability, and customer focus inspires us to be the most efficient, safe, and reliable choice for our customers and the patients they serve. In return, we offer challenging careers, professional growth, and the opportunity to be part of our skilled team with over 40 years of experience as champions that are dedicated, trustworthy, and relentless to advancing products through every stage of the development cycle. Alcami offers an extraordinary opportunity, a competitive salary, and an exceptional benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, life, LTD, STD, 401(k) with match and immediate vesting, and tuition reimbursement / student loan forgiveness.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Alcami is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.