Strategic Production Scheduler - Columbus Plant

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Production areas that are clean, well-lit and temperature-controlled
• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs, Medical Benefits start day 1
• Vacation – 120 hours of accrued vacation (1st yr is prorated) + vacation buy program + 5 personal days + 10 paid holidays
• Retiree Healthcare program
• Robust 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

Develops and modifies production schedules and coordinates all related support activities through the manufacturing, testing, and approval process. Develops and implements capacity plans to coordinate labor, equipment, and activities to ensure execution of schedules to planned due dates. Measures workload queue’s and minimizes bottlenecks in the supply chain. Provides direction to numerous support/operations areas. Controls performance against schedules to ensure timely completion of work orders and develops and monitors performance tools, such as input/output control, cycle time, and late jobs to ensure work is performed within scheduling criteria and available capacity. Conceptualizes, designs, and leads activities driven by strategic business needs. Exhibits ability to identify and resolve complex problems, communicates findings to prevent future occurrences throughout the division.

• →Manages the development, modification and implementation of production schedules within the approved horizon.
• →Ensures schedules meet criteria for level-loading and priority maintenance.
• →Resolves conflicting priorities and manufacturing problems that may impact material delivery and availability and avoids late job status.
• →Develops, issues, and analyzes performance reports measuring schedule changes, performance against operation schedule dates, late jobs, and packet availability to Manufacturing.
• →Generates and monitors production metrics.
• →Recommends and implements action plans to improve performance against goals.
• →Resolves potential problems before they affect a negative result.
• →Minimizes bottlenecks in the supply chain by developing capacity plans and capacity controls.
• →Determines labor/machine capacity to achieve planned production requirements.
• →Determines overtime requirements and/or off load opportunities to ensure execution of planned production schedules.
• →Resolves material feasibility related issues delaying production start dates.
• →Acts as primary contact for operational area for scheduling, capacity, work order activity, and lead-time compression.
• →Develops and monitor input/output measurements for key work centers to ensure work and performance are managed within scheduling criteria and available capacity.
• →Establishes work center capacity analysis/profiles defining labor, machines, utilization, and efficiency factors.
• →Determines headcount and equipment requirements to ensure timely schedule execution.
• →Ensures planned start date and due date attainment for area manufactured work orders.
• →Identifies, understands and solves multiple complex/challenging operational issues.

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of experience in operations/distribution/quality
• 4+ years of experience in manufacturing, production planning/control, technical, or quality assurance
• Proficiency with Abbott operational processes
• Knowledge and understanding of business metrics

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