Senior Planner

Join the best radiopharmaceutical company in the world!

If you’re looking to make an impact while building a meaningful career in a specialized, fast-growing field, North Star Medical Radioisotopes is the place to do it. North Star Medical Radioisotopes is a growing, commercial-stage company focused on advancing patient care by providing therapeutic radioisotopes and novel radiopharmaceuticals to detect and treat cancer.

At the forefront of North Star’s technological innovation is scientific excellence, using first-in-kind electron accelerator technology and integrated campus capabilities to drive progress in radiopharmaceutical manufacturing. Our work is driven by a meaningful mission—advancing life-saving radiopharmaceutical development and ensuring a reliable supply of critical medical isotopes for patients in need. As a rapidly growing organization operating on the cutting edge of science, we offer exceptional career growth and professional development opportunities, supported by world-class facilities and a competitive benefits package.

The Senior Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring the flow of products through the complete production cycle to support the company business plan. This role is responsible for releasing and maintaining manufacturing work orders to support customer demands. The Senior Planner understands ERP planning, production scheduling, and maintains a current inventory of WIP and finished goods.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and release work orders to Operations. Upon completion of work orders, ensure timely final processing and closure of work orders.
• Create and maintain production schedules. Solve scheduling conflicts and issues. Ensure labor and equipment availability. Communicate schedule changes to affected team members. Conduct regular production meetings with key stakeholders.
• Maintain adequate inventory of subassemblies to support production activities. Ensure ERP information is accurate and adjust as demands change.
• Ensure appropriate inventory levels are established for manufactured products.
• Plan and develop workflows for new products and product changes. Incorporate product changes into production BOMs and coordinate inventory levels while minimizing scrap and excess production.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.

After 3 months you will:

• Develop a working knowledge of North Star products and internal business systems.
• Accurately create, release, and close work orderrs in the ERP system.
• Schedule work orders for production.

After 6 months you will:

• Independently manage the production schedule for assigned business units.
• Proactively identify and resolve work order related issues, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Lead a weekly production meeting to ensure key stakeholders understand requirements and business needs.
• Collaborate on document change orders and implement change orders into the production schedule effectively.

Minimum Education/Experience Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and minimum of five (5) years of scheduling and production planning experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Please note the company cannot provide immigration-related sponsorship (including H-1B status, O-1 status, Optional Practical Training support, etc.) for this position. Each successful applicant will be required to complete the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, demonstrating both identity and employment authorization, on or before the first day of employment. Under federal law, only truthful information may be provided on the Form I-9.

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