Quality Planner

The 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 resources—including equipment, materials, and staffing—in 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.

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Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exha