Senior Manager of Manufacturing

Strategic Focus

Drives operational excellence in accordance with short and long-term organizational objectives and strategic focus through leadership & technical expertise for continuous development of people & team, quality expectations, compliance, safety, customer and financial goals.

People / Team Development

• Provides key leadership, communication, and organizational management of both non-exempt & exempt personnel including, process supervisors.
• Responsible for the hiring, development and coaching of employees in order to ensure optimal level of performance by all manufacturing personnel.
• Ensures that prospective candidates, who are hired into the business, align with the strategic direction of the manufacturing organization and to help foster a learning organization that exhibits leadership, personal accountability, and a strong sense of purpose and urgency.
• Commit to employee feedback and developmental processes through a communication plan, mentoring, technical acumen, and leadership development.

Operational Excellence

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through employee selection, training and mentoring whilst focusing on operational efficiency and the elimination of “non-value added” activities.
• Support plant-wide strategic plans, programs and activities.
• Work collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams and to act as a change agent whilst leading in a timely and productive manner.
• Identify and follow up/lead opportunities that contribute to the improvement of current manufacturing processes and practices.
• Manage and lead the daily manufacturing operations across a single or multiple value streams.

Quality, Compliance & Safety

• Responsible for assuring compliances with all regulatory requirements – FDA, OSHA, OFCCP, EPA, etc.
• Adheres to all environmental, health and safety SOPs, equipment, policies and procedures, including any department-specific requirements.
• Ensures adherence to production schedules, while holding Supervisors and teams responsible for compliance with all safety and quality regulations.
• Ensures that appropriate levels of trained resources are available to meet scheduled attainment objectives.
• Ensures inspection readiness of all manufacturing areas.
• Participates in inspections conducted by external / internal regulators and ensures the success of departmental audits.
• Interfaces directly with customers and regulatory personnel during plant audits and inspections.
• Is responsible for “on-time” completion of investigations, CAPA’s for major and critical deviations and QE’s.
• Reviews and approves Quality Reports, validation protocols and reports.
• Manages Change Controls.
• Complies with requirements from American Regent’s Safety Program, including Health and Safety mandates and OSHA requirements.
• Ensures the accuracy of all manufacturing management tools/systems and documentation (eg. SOP’s, OJT’s).
• Pairs with Manufacturing Engineering/Product Manager in order to troubleshoot and foster the resolution of process issues by continuously and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing processes.
• Safeguards personnel policy administration including attendance control and Disciplinary Policy.

Customer

• Ensures timely deliverance of products to internal & external customers so that product quality, yield, operating costs and process efficiencies/expectations are satisfied.
• Interfaces with the other managers/customers to ensure our quality commitments are satisfied.
• Participates/leads the scheduling of projects and staff meetings in conjunction with providing updates on departmental activities and project statuses.
• Safeguards timely escalation of manufacturing issue(s) related to management and other cross-functional support teams as may be necessary.
• Advise senior management on production issues and vulnerabilities.
• Develop proposals for improvement and risk mitigation.

Financial

• Ensures profitability [EBITDA] by challenging the status quo and striving for operational excellence for 1st time right product lots/Batch Records, utilization of labor thereby increasing acceptable units and finished good yields, throughput and Overall Equipment Effectiveness [OEE].
• Increase efficiency and profitability through the minimization of production downtime, WIP Inventory, manufacturing cycle time and “set-up” reduction.
• Optimize resources within assigned areas in order to adhere to compliance standards and cost discipline.