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Join Thermo Fisher Scientific to contribute globally, helping customers and advancing science. As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

Become part of our Nashville team committed to providing customers with essential products for their scientific pursuits.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Manufacturing Planning Team supports the Single-Use Technologies Division by planning custom orders and stock products efficiently.

A day in the life:

• Use MRP/ERP/ASCP systems to develop and maintain production schedules aligned with customer demands, inventory levels, and production capacity.
• Lead all aspects of and reconcile exception messages.
• Maintain key item settings in the ERP system to ensure accurate functionality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Materials Planning, Operations, Customer Operations and Support, Logistics) to ensure timely and efficient production and delivery.
• Proactively identify and resolve production-related issues or bottlenecks to minimize disruptions and optimize workflow efficiency.
• Expedite production batches to meet urgent customer requests.
• Analyze and interpret production data using Excel skills; identify trends and make data-driven decisions to optimize production processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance processes, improve workflows, and increase operational efficiency.
• Support expansion and harmonization projects.
• Other related duties as the need arises.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• Preference for Certification in APICS CPIM, CSCP, ISM CPSM, Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt (or higher)

Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Production/Manufacturing Planning or Supply Chain.

• Planning and scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment using MRP/ERP and APS (Oracle, ASCP, SAP, JDE, server-based systems).

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proficient in leading and analyzing data in Excel.
• Validated understanding of manufacturing concepts and principles, finite scheduling, product flow, data management, and supply chain planning.

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