Production Planner

Job description

POSITION LOCATION: The Production Planner creates and maintains headcount, equipment, and facility capacity plans to meet output targets in 24/7 genetic testing labs. This role develops and communicates production schedules, production targets, and continuously monitor performance versus plan. Provides daily/weekly reporting of lab KPIs and schedules to lab leadership and interfaces across the organization, including but not limited to Lab Operations, Process Engineering, Equipment support, Analytics, Product Managers, and Engineering to optimize lab production. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop and maintain capacity models for headcount, equipment, facilities across multiple labs.. Create daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules aligned to production goals. Monitor shift-level execution against plan, highlight deviations >5% and remedial plans Partner with Lab Operations leaders realign WIP and production priorities to overcome production constraints. Track and report KPIs; QCDS, schedule adherence, cycle time, bottleneck queues, OEE. Partner with Continuous Improvement teams and other individuals on identifying production constraints and improving scheduling for higher thr...