Material Handler (Biotech)
Join our ambitious team at Lonza AG, where you can contribute to world-class advancements in life sciences. Own your career while making a meaningful difference as a Material Handler in our Houston, TX facility. Help us compete at the highest level in the industry by ensuring flawless execution of our inventory and supply plans.
Key responsibilities:
Perform all routine tasks to convert planned orders into material plans, including the creation and management of planned material requirements.
Liaise strictly with Schedulers to ensure all material plans are up-to-date and responsive to changes in material requirements.
Build and maintain detailed material planning parameters in planning systems.
Collaborate with collaborators (Manager Supply Chain, Scheduler, and PM) to develop safety stock and inventory plans that meet production needs.
Expedite material availability through coordination with procurement and teams involved in inbound material processing.
Track, report, and facilitate timely material availability, including testing and release for production.
Develop and handle important metrics for material-related analysis to ensure a detailed understanding of material availability.
Complete key material mobilization or write actions to achieve efficient inventory management while minimizing scrap/waste.
Ensure the timely shipment of materials to customers.
Manage readiness of material commodities, ensuring they are prepared for campaign use without release testing.
Represent the supply chain at internal project meetings, ensuring raw materials campaign activities are managed efficiently.
Identify, develop, and successfully implement major raw materials breakthrough projects to improve efficiency and operational support.
Ensure master data accuracy within the ERP system and collaborate with QA on vendor qualification.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Key requirements:
Bachelor's degree in business management or equivalent experience in Supply Chain.
Proven background in material planning for GMP manufacturing.
Ability to influence Supply Chain and functional leaders to support inventory management and strategy recommendations.
Outstanding communication and presentation skills. Ability to present ideas clearly and concisely.
Proficient in analyzing data and identifying issues through root cause analysis.
Proficiency in using MS Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to apply Business Intelligence systems to extract data and generate reports.
Every day, Lonza's products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
