Production Planner I

About the job Why Join Bend Bioscience? Mission And Culture At Bend Bioscience, we Advance Health Through Innovation by developing and manufacturing therapies that improve patients' quality of life. We believe every employee plays a vital role in our mission to advance human health through innovative client partnerships. Whether you’re involved in development, manufacturing, testing, or contributing your expertise in other areas, your work will have a meaningful, positive impact on countless lives. Do You Love finding new and better ways to do things? Want to help develop medicines that improve patients' lives? Have a passion for learning and growth? Nerd out on science and technology? Value collaboration and teamwork? Embrace audacity and entrepreneurial thinking? Prioritize safety and lead by example? Care deeply about doing the right thing? At Bend Bioscience, we foster a diverse, inclusive, challenging, and supportive culture. We are committed to continuous improvement, both as individuals and as an organization, and we encourage personal and professional development at every level. Join us to make a real difference in patients’ lives through your work. Your New Role At Bend Bioscience In this role you are responsible for material and capacity planning for Commercial operations. This involves maintaining a valid production schedule for Manufacturing and Packaging as well as related operational activities in sales and shipping. Key Responsibilities (other Duties May Be Assigned) Create process orders and manage the request and issuance of physical batch records to support the Commercial production plan. Allocate materials to process orders. Review status of materials and follow-up with internal departments as required to ensure that materials are released prior to the scheduled start date. Submit where-used information to Quality Assurance to support allocations as required. Create and maintain a valid production schedule for process orders. Maintain a working knowledge of available resource capacity through coordination with Manufacturing/Packaging and analysis of capacity data. If required, adjust schedule and due dates based on schedule delays and notify Manufacturing Management and all other affected parties of any significant changes to the schedule. Release process orders, print allocation sheets, and review physical batch records for completeness prior to issuing to Manufacturing/Packaging. Facilitate and lead weekly scheduling meetings to review production schedule and identify risks and issues that may prevent schedule attainment. Schedule cleaning validations, preventative maintenance, calibrations, and other equipment downtime as required. Assist Stability Coordinator with requests for stability samples from Manufacturing/Packaging. Review equipment and cleaning validation protocols that impact assigned products and related equipment. Request appropriate documentation when requesting batch records. Schedule equipment and cleaning validations to support protocol and standard procedure requirements. Submit record requests for purchased material receipts and retest materials. Enter sales orders, maintain the shipping schedule, submit requests for shipment pick-up, and prepare and submit shipping documentation to Shipping. For controlled substance shipments, prepare DEA permit requests and submit DEA forms with shipment documents. For finished packaged product with DSCSA serialization data, enter and submit shipment Product Tracking information following the shipment Experience And Educational Requirements High school diploma or general education degree (GED) is required; additional education or training within Supply Chain related field is preferred. Three (3) years manufacturing or packaging experience in a GMP regulated environment, preferably with pharmaceutical products. Production planning experience and ASCM CPIM certification is highly preferred. Experience using SAP or similar enterprise planning software is highly preferred.