Manufacturing Supervisor III (Monday to Friday, 2:00pm - 10:30pm)

About the role

The Manufacturing Supervisor III serves as a technical subject matter expert with advanced expertise in operations, leading and facilitating safe operations in line with all safety, regulatory and operational requirements. This role assures long-term team effectiveness by delivering high levels of customer service, ensuring quality of products and services, complying with regulatory requirements, achieving financial performance including cost reductions, and building a culture of high performance.

Responsibilities

• Safety: Manages production safety program while creating an environment where safety is the number one priority; drives safety improvements and conducts safety gembas routinely; present on the floor promoting a culture of zero safety incidents in compliance with all EHS requirements.
• People: Responsible for daily effective deployment of team members and ensures tasks are appropriately delegated to meet production schedule; ensures team members are trained to required standards; drives engagement through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, development planning, and survey action plans; approves time and attendance weekly so employees are paid correctly.
• People: Communicates effectively with team to cascade important communications; acts as advisor/coach to unit/sub-unit and trainer/mentor to junior peers; supervises production support personnel.
• Operational: Responsible for effective coordination of activities within the shift to meet production schedule; ensures smooth shift handover to plan and execute departmental activities safely.
• Compliance: Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory agencies; implements proactive compliance management with material checks, line clearance checks, and spot checks conducted routinely; effectively manages compliance issues that could impact lot completion.
• Performance: Responsible for complete cycle time management and continuously seeks improvements; responsible for change-over time management and continuously seeks improvements; leads or manages process improvement projects; knows all site metrics and actively supports initiatives to meet expectations and targets.
• Development: Develops direct reports through appropriate training and progressively challenging tasks; ensures all personnel, especially Key Talent, have development actions/plans and growth opportunities; pursues self-development with a growth mindset.
• Operational Excellence (OpEx): Leads process improvement initiatives; obtains improvement ideas from team and submits to pertinent groups to improve culture, quality, productivity, and safety.
• Generates and manages non-hazardous and hazardous waste according to internal operating procedures and in compliance with local and federal regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; degree in sciences or engineering preferred.
• Minimum 4 years experience supervising or leading a functional team.
• Experience in regulated pharmaceutical industry strongly preferred.
• Systems: Proficient in Microsoft Office and other manufacturing systems such as SAP; familiarity with industrial automation (distributed control and PLC based systems).
• Regulatory: Working knowledge of safety, quality systems, and cGMPs required.
• Aseptic (If applicable): Experience working in an aseptic production environment preferred.