Plant Scheduler

WHAT YOU WILL DO

About you: 

Do you want to spend your working time making a positive difference to the world around you? Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries, and many more? Do you care about keeping patients and people safe? If so, then a career with Steris AST as a Plant Scheduler could be a great fit for you.  

About Us: 

At Steris AST we are the trusted experts in technology-neutral sterilization services including radiation and gas modalities.

We offer electron beam, gamma, X-ray, ethylene oxide and vaporized hydrogen peroxide technologies for the purpose of product sterilization. Whether that product be a medical device, consumables in a hospital environment, cosmetics and toiletries, or industrial products, we make sure everything that makes its way to an end user is safe for use or consumption.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Plant Scheduler role is a pivotal role in ensuring operational service delivery at our Gamma site. Core duties are to make sure all Customers products are efficiently scheduled to ensure maximum plant utilisation, while maintaining each Customers products are processed within specification and without deviation.

Working closely with the internal operational teams and our Customers, excellent communication and relationship skill sets are important for the role. 

• To plan and schedule processing of Customers products to meet customer, quality, regulatory and safety requirements, whilst maximising processing efficiency.
• Ensure that the daily schedule for the plant is distributed to the shop floor, by the end of the day.
• To plan and schedule the plant to achieve the required outcomes in terms of dose specification and on-time delivery, thus satisfying Customer requirements.
• To achieve the above whilst maximising first pass yield and plant efficiency with regard to available cobalt activity and minimising the requirement to use ‘empty’ totes.
• Monitor flow of product through the plant, highlighting areas where backlogs exist and working with Operations leadership team to ensure these constraints are resolved in a timely manner.
• Ensure Customers processed product is collected in  a timely manner therefore keeping a good product flow through the warehouse. 
• To maintain the “scheduling bible” – updating in a timely manner.
• To work closely with the Validation Technician to ensure products fit within the site core business portfolio.

Duties - cont'd

• Perform weekly dose trending analysis and take preventative action to avoid any dose issues and discuss any potential speed changes with the Operations leadership team
• Review & maintain Reading Master Schedule data. Ensure all customer forecasts are up-to-date in the master schedule. Create a monthly PowerPoint presentation for the master schedule calls and lead the monthly Master Schedule calls with the appropriate members of the Commercial Team.
• Assist Operations leadership team to plan for major maintenance undertakings and plant loadings, through scheduling downtime that has least impact on contracted Customers.
• Work with the Admin team to ensure the accuracy of processing paperwork by reviewing incoming documentation and process packs prior to scheduling the run.
• Work with the Admin team to ensure that both you and the administration team support operations, quality and technical teams where necessary thus creating a teamwork culture that is proactive and has a positive mindset
• Liaise with the Commercial Team over queries relating to existing products, new potential work, process capability and any other areas
• Actively seek ways to improve the scheduling process to make the plant run as efficient as possible

Required Experience

• Excellent communication skills
• Effective organisational skills
• Strong data interpretation and analysis skills
• Good facilitation skills
• Ability to work with in high pressured environment and to make and accept adaptions to schedule
• Strong organizational, verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient with MS Office suite and IT based skills

Preferred Experience

Skills