Animal Logistics Specialist - Montgomery, United States - Fortis Life Sciences

Fortis Life Sciences

Verified Company

Montgomery, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

The Opportunity

Fortis partners with diagnostics and life sciences companies to design, validate, and manufacture solutions to solve their complex development problems.

Fortis' tailored approach and end-to-end capabilities accelerate the work of its customers as they bring the next generation of medicines and diagnostics to market.

Fortis serves a global customer base and has offices across the world including four R&D sites and three GMP and ISO 13485 compliant manufacturing facilities in North America.

What You Will Do

Oversee all aspects of the production planning process including antigen preparation, plasma/serum processing, semifinished and finished materials as applicable.
Maintain the backorder list and update weekly.
Maintain the rabbit breeding schedule and advise in demand planning exercises.
Working with both R&D and Manufacturing, track in process animal projects, antigen inventories and reorder antigens as needed.
Create and maintain all animals in SAP, including schedules and work orders.
Work with Animal Operations personnel to monitor animal health, maintain animal inventories and necessary schedules as approved by IACUC and attending veterinarian.
Maintain ideal numbers of animals onlease and available to ensure proper levels of plasma/serum materials for manufacturing.
Maintain titer information on all animals and oversee pool and queue process.
Working with Finance and Operations, assist in inventory management, including counts, as needed.
Work with Animal Operations and Manufacturing leadership on continuous improvement initiatives as well as better data tools and dashboards.
Perform other tasks as assigned by management, which may not be listed above, that are necessary to accomplish our goal of improving lives by supporting scientific discovery.

Who You Are & What You Bring

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Mathematical and scientific skills.
Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
Good interpersonal and teamwork skills.
Solid planning, priority setting, and project management skills with experience managing multiple priorities concurrently.

Preferred educational and experiential background:

Bachelor's or Advanced degree in relevant scientific field.
2+ years' experience in a related role preferably in protein manufacturing.
Knowledge of manufacturing and inventory management functions of SAP or an equivalent ERP system.
Expert level knowledge of Microsoft Excel

What We Offer
We have an incredibly talented group of intelligent, down-to-earth individuals who are committed to developing and manufacturing only the highest quality products

Our mission:
"Pursuing a Healthier World by Creating Tomorrow's Science Today" is complemented by our core values (
EXCITE):

Excellence - We believe in solving for root cause. No shortcuts, no "band-aids"

Customer First - We prioritize the experience and outcomes of our customers above all.

Integrity - We are honest and accountable, holding ourselves to a high standard of ethical conduct.

Trust - We believe an engaged, empowered team begins with a foundation of trust. We trust our team members to make the right decisions and to be driven by and evaluated on results.

Entrepreneurship - We encourage smart risk taking. We value novel mistakes in the pursuit of innovation.

Fortis provides a competitive salary, success-sharing bonus plan, medical, dental, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan. We are an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

We are an E-Verify Employer in the United States.