Operations Planner

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. 

The Planner is a key individual contributor to the success of Catalent. The Planner supports the execution of the Master Production Plan for the entire site to achieve 100% on-time delivery of scheduled batches. The Planner leads all tasks associated with the planning and purchasing of raw materials, scheduling of customer orders, including projects, equipment availability, promise dates and working with procurement and materials management when the need for expediting of any material necessary to start the order.

This is a full-time hourly position.  The expected hours are Monday - Friday, Day shift.

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee. 

The Role:

• Performs analysis to determine optimal production schedule of customer orders and combination of key inputs, including Customer requirements from the Project Management personnel, production sequencing raw material and equipment availability based on their own assessment.
• Interprets and communicates special requirements to appropriate personnel.
• Updates new plans and changes in the inventory management system.
• Supports new product introduction, BOM’s and item master as needed.
• Verifies availability of material and capacity before rescheduling.
• Ensures schedule stability by minimizing short term changes to the schedule where possible.
• Creates, monitors and updates manufacturing work orders and parts lists in the system.
• Maintains effectiveness of the Quality System components relevant to this position.
• Responsible for updating existing reports and developing new ones
• Responsible for tracking departmental performance metrics, as required
• Work closely with all internal and external suppliers and vendors
• Maintain work area to 5S standards as posted in work area
• Maintain SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) for all duties and tasks

The Candidate:

• High School/GED
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 2-5 years of experience
• Must be able to read and understand English-written job instructions and safety requirements.
• Successful experience interacting and liaising with internal and external clients, customers, and/or suppliers required
• Experience using electronic ERP and Material Management systems required
• Prior experience in a cGMP environment required
• ASCM or ISM certification preferred

Why you should join Catalent:

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process 
• Diverse, inclusive culture 
• 19 days (152 hours) of PTO + 8 paid holidays
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives 
• Competitive salary with quarterly bonus potential 
• Community engagement and green initiatives 
• Generous 401K match and Paid Time Off accrual 
• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment 
• Tuition Reimbursement 

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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