Senior Specialist, Master Scheduler

About the position The Biologics Process Research & Development organization within our Company Research Labs is responsible for developing the drug substance manufacturing processes for our Company's biologics pipeline. We work closely with colleagues in Discovery, Pre-clinical, and Early Development to rapidly develop processes for diverse biotherapeutics and efficiently produce material to supply clinical trials. We are also responsible for commercial process development, and development and implementation of new technologies. We work with our partners in our Company Manufacturing Division to commercialize and launch new products. This role will support the Next Generation Biologics (NGB) facility, which will be a premier, state-of-the-art facility, that is a key part of our Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) hub at our site headquarters 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 our company'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

Requirements

• 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 experience
• At least 5+ years of previous project management & planning experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Track record of working effectively with team-members of diverse skill sets and backgrounds
• Strong presentations and verbal/written communication skills
• Experienced in the administration of GMPs, Good Documentation Practices (GDPs), and S&E regulations as it pertains to biologics development
• Excellent attention to detail, highly independent with initiative
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to challenge the status quo with a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong analytical and presentation skills.
• Proficient in ERP systems (COMET/SAP in particular), planning software and system interfaces.

Benefits

• The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.
• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
• More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits

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