Azenta UK, Ltd. At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships. All we accomplish is grounded in our core values of Customer Focus, Achievement, Accountability, Teamwork, Employee Value and Integrity Job TitleProduction Planner Job Description Full Time - On Site | Permanent | Wotton, RH5 6QT | Monday - Friday | 8:00am - 4:30pm Plans and schedules production to meet customer requirements, taking account of the complete production cycle and laboratory process. Works from engineering plans and production specifications to establish production schedules, labour requirements, and capacity requirements. Coordinates production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules. Reviews and reports on production performance to plan, reviews cycle times and efficiencies highlighting areas for improvement. Key responsibilities: Responsible for all production scheduling, this includes but is not limited to, injection moulding, other clean room processes and work in the instrument cell. Works with demand planning to ensure business priorities are met. Ensures maintenance tasks to maintain operating equipment efficiency are planned into capacity schedules. Schedule trials of new tools and refurbished / repaired tools & R&D activities. Provide lead time data to the demand planning team, responsible for notification of any lead time delays. Problem solving demand issues. Working with warehouse to ensure materials and stock are available on time for production start. Generating metrics for production performance. Supports and plans production around annual inventory audits. Production admin support tasks, such as assisting with ERP transactions, scrappage forms & creating works orders for new products. Reviews holiday schedules to plan resources. Other reasonable duties as assigned. CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS Knowledge and Experience: Minimum 3 years of planning, coordinating, scheduling, inventory management and production control experience preferably with plastic injection moulding processes Good understanding of Oracle (or similar) MRP based planning system. Strong capability in modern planning concepts and practice Abilities to handle multiple competing priorities, such as prioritizing orders running through the same production facility due on the same date with capacity constraints, minimizing inventory and lead times, etc. Experience working for a global organization headquartered in North America preferred. Skills, aptitude and personal characteristics: Must have excellent spreadsheet skills with strong analytical abilities and excellent attention to detail. The ability to generate new spreadsheets with interlinking with be essential. This role requires the ability to be flexible and proactive to meet customer requirements. Requires sense of urgency, and the ability to provide detailed information when needed. Must be able to establish working relationship with cross-functional colleagues. A good fit with the Azenta Values, honest and ethical. Collaborative and communicative: Able to communicate with and effectively work with the management team; to leverage strengths of the culture, while instilling sense of direction, execution, and achievement. Commitment to Continuous Improvement. Due to the rural area, applicants will require their own reliable transport If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please email at [email protected] for assistance. Azenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Azenta is a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and multiomics services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally. As a global leader in R&D multiomics services, Azenta Life Sciences, leads the way in providing superior data quality with unparalleled technical support to enable researchers around the world to advance their scientific discoveries faster than ever before. To view more job openings please visit our career site at Careers | Azenta Life Sciences

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