Production Planning Senior Officer

About the Role

Tabuk Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Production Planning Senior Officer to join their team in Dammam. This full-time role involves planning and managing production schedules, ensuring adherence to sales delivery requirements, and optimizing production capacity utilization within the company's operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and manage production schedules to meet sales delivery requirements and optimize production capacity.
• Improve scheduling processes using capacity planning tools, batch trackers, delivery plans, and production sequences to achieve production objectives.
• Follow up on sales operation requirements for invoicing and shipping release in alignment with production and delivery plans.
• Monitor finished goods (FG) inventory levels for liquidation plans and transfers.
• Ensure raw and packaging material (RPM) availability and schedule to meet production timelines.
• Respond to acceleration or cancellation requests from sales operations, considering production and delivery plans.
• Review and follow up on process orders to support the production plan and shop floor requirements.
• Review sales orders against needs planning using the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and Material Requirement Planning (MRP) report.
• Interface with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department, and supervisors regarding material status and production planning issues.
• Establish and adjust priorities for specific sales operation orders to meet monthly target sales (MTS).
• Release and manage process orders for production.
• Revise and update schedules based on production sequence specifications, established priorities, and the availability of workers, materials, and machines.
• Provide support to Engineering, Quality, and R&D on production plans as needed.
• Update and follow up on batch tracker and delivery reports, including root cause analysis for delays, by leading daily meetings to review work progress and promote teamwork.
• Create and follow up on quality requirements (CCR, NC, CAPA, and requests on eQMS / DMS).
• Act as the Supply Chain Department Representative for quality audits and reports on eQMS, TMS, DMS, CAPA, NC, and training.

Safety, Quality & Environment

The role requires ensuring adherence to GMP & safety guidelines in all activities.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Engineering degree or a degree in supply chain management.
• Sufficient experience and knowledge related to Planning and sales operations.
• Sufficient experience and knowledge in regulatory requirements and planning aspects related to cGMP.
• Fluent English language skills are essential.
• Proficiency in computer skills is required.