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Quality PlannerAvantor • Phillipsburg, NJ, US
Quality Planner

Quality Planner

Avantor • Phillipsburg, NJ, US
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Quality Planner Opportunity

Avantor is looking for a Quality Planner to join our Quality group! The Quality Planner is central to communicate batch and sample investigations, ensuring smooth progress and timely updates. You'll act as a key mediator between Quality and external stakeholders, driving excellence in the Quality process.

This is a full-time onsite role at our chemical manufacturing facility in Phillipsburg, NJ.

What we're looking for

  • Education : Bachelors Degree in physical, life science or other related concentration is required
  • Experience : Minimum 2 years in quality control lab setting in regulated industry (GMP, IPEC, Pharma) experience is required

Strong data analytical skills (e.g. leveraging Excel, PowerBI)

  • Problem solving techniques training, i.e., Lean, Six Sigma
  • Preferred Qualifications :
  • 3+ years of experience

  • SAP experience
  • LIMS experience
  • How you will thrive and create an impact

    This role involves constant communication with key stakeholders to prioritize tasks and address potential issues like labor shortages, equipment downtime, and out-of-specification concerns. By continually balancing and rebalancing resourcesincluding equipment, materials, and staffingin collaboration with various teams, the Quality Planner ensures efficient operations while meeting customer expectations.

  • Execute established weekly scheduling process, incorporating stakeholder priorities, testing time, analyst training, and other information to develop a lab testing schedule.
  • Develop and maintain procedures and work instructions to support planning.
  • Manages and leads efforts with team to ensure gaps are understood and closed or mitigated to minimize potential risks.
  • Tracks performance reports and communicate to senior management.
  • Develop and implement quality plans and weekly scheduling process to ensure compliance to adhere to internal and external customers.
  • Responsible for maintaining up-to-date scheduling timelines as well as escalation of issues to appropriate function.
  • Use Excel and PowerBI to develop and maintain tools that enable timely information sharing on status of lab inventory and progress on priorities.
  • Act as the principal liaison for our cross functional teams to communicate status of items.
  • Proactively communicate to impacted teams any delays or potential delays with revised timelines.
  • Develop and deliver concise and impactful presentations on lab and batch release performance, including root cause analysis of misses and countermeasures / corrective and preventative actions.
  • Track and report on status of action plans for improvement.
  • Collaborate with analysts and lab management to identify and execute improvements to lab processes including scheduling, sample receipt and testing, documentation review and approval.
  • Collaborate with batch release team to identify and execute improvements to the batch release process.
  • Provide critical support to ensure the seamless operation of administrative functions, thereby enabling the quality organization to achieve its strategic objectives on ad hoc basis.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Organizational Relationships :

  • This position will report directly to the Senior Manager - Quality Assurance and will interact with virtually all personnel within the facilities.
  • The candidate must be able to work alone or with groups of others and with little or no direct supervision.
  • This position interacts with all Plant Operations, R&T, Procurement, Marketing, Sales, other roles within the Quality Organization at other Avantor locations, and regulators as required.
  • Knowledge Skills and Abilities (Those necessary to perform the job competently)

  • Ability to understand and complete projects and tasks as assigned; follow process & procedures.
  • Perform duties with the highest regard for safety and quality.
  • Ability to multi-task and follow directions accurately.
  • Environmental Working Conditions & Physical Effort (Under Typical Positions)

  • Minimal physical effort is required. Work requires walking, standing, bending, reaching, lifting, or carrying objects that typically weigh less than 10 lbs.
  • A frequent volume of work and deadlines impose strain on routine basis.
  • Why Avantor?

    Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science. The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor. We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

    Pay Transparency : The expected pre-tax pay for this position is $77,300.00 - $128,700.00. Actual pay may differ depending on relevant factors such as prior experience and geographic location.

    EEO Statement : We are an Equal Employment / Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state / province, or local law.

    If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at recruiting@avantorsciences.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

    For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the Know Your Rights poster.

    3rd Party Non-Solicitation Policy : By submitting candidates without having been formally assigned on and contracted for a specific job requisition by Avantor, or by failing to comply with the Avantor recruitment process, you forfeit any fee on the submitted candidates, regardless of your usual terms and conditions. Avantor works with a preferred supplier list and will take the initiative to engage with recruitment agencies based on its needs and will not be accepting any form of solicitation.

    Avantor offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness programs, health savings and flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, and an employee stock purchase program. Employees also receive 11 paid holidays, accrue 18 PTO days annually, are eligible for volunteer time off and 6 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (except in states that offer paid family leave). These benefits may not apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement or those subject to other eligibility rules.

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