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Sr. Associate Scheduler

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role as a Senior Associate Scheduler you will manage the day-to-day production schedule for Amgen Rhode Island (West Greenwich, RI). This role is a part of the Manufacturing team for Product Lifecycle Management for the West Greenwich, Rhode Island manufacturing facilities.

This is a highly visible role across the site with the core responsibility of supporting manufacturing and F&E by delivering a detailed schedule of manufacturing, maintenance, and client activities. This role will also offer the opportunity to propose, participate, and lead team improvement initiatives to drive improved efficiency and scheduling accuracy. Examples of past and upcoming team initiatives include schedule adherence monitoring, VirtECS tool implementation, reporting and scheduling process standardization and automation, and development and integration of sophisticated scheduling tools (e.g., buffer/media volume and expiry tracking for buffer/media scheduling).

• Building and maintaining the ARI production schedule

• Integrating the ARI client activity schedule (e.g., maintenance, commissioning)

• Leading semi-weekly client meetings to review scheduled client activities (e.g., PMs)

• Lead daily morning meetings to update and communicate the schedule with clients (i.e. manufacturing, facilities and engineering, etc.)

• Off business hour on-call support as needed and regular morning meetings earlier than core hours (e.g. 7:45 am)

• Leading team improvement initiatives to improve productivity and scheduling accuracy

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The outstanding professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's Degree OR

• Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of Manufacturing, Scheduling or Modeling experience OR

• Associate's degree and 6 years of Manufacturing, Scheduling or Modeling experience OR

• High school diploma/GED and 8 years Manufacturing, Scheduling or Modeling experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science or above in engineering, math, or science

• Demonstration of strong analytical proficiency

• Ability to work well with teams, open to change and new insights

• Ability to lead meetings, communicate and explain schedule recommendations effectively, and communicate well within team

• Clear analytical and critical thinking capability under pressure – able to respond to scheduling changes, capture required data, evaluate options, and communicate analysis recommendations to facilitate decision making and make decisions

• Ability to indirectly lead large cross functional team of partners and stakeholders across large biotech facility +600 employees

• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills and error-proofing habits

• Knowledge of facility and manufacturing process within manufacturing and supporting operations

• Knowledge of scheduling tools and associated systems (Werum, VirtECS, MS Project, SAP, PI, Excel)

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey

• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act

• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor