MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:
Leadership:
- Cultivate a culture of strong ownership, responsibility, accountability, and teamwork with primary focus on Industrial Safety and Quality Culture.
- Set, reinforce and hold people to high standards while driving toward excellence in all areas.
- Support expectations for all employees, contractors and visitors to exhibit safety awareness and safe work practices. Protect employees and visitors by maintaining a safe and clean working environment.
- Mentor and develop leadership team members, facilitating a culture that motivates employees.
Operational:
Develop and execute strategic, operational, quality and manufacturing process plans that ensure the reliable production and delivery of high-quality API products.
- Ensure continuous improvement culture through implementation of lean manufacturing techniques and cost reductions programs.
- In collaboration with Functional Area Leadership, refine metrics and measure and report against same.
- Ensure on-going process and manufacturing capability improvement. Manufacturing and engineering policy development, installation and maintenance, etc.
- Ensure plant and equipment preventative maintenance programs are effective.
Financial:
- Lead the planning, budgeting, cost monitoring of the Manufacturing department including the Annual Operating Plan.
Quality:
- Represent the Site in all federal agency inspections (FDA, DEA, Homeland Security, OSHA) and customer audits.
- Recommend and implement methods to increase the quality of products and/or services.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education, Experience, Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and/or Chemical Engineering or related field.
- 10+ years’ experience managing a manufacturing environment; specific understanding of API manufacturing preferred.
- Must have strong communication, change management and managerial skills.
- Strong knowledge and demonstrated implementation of Compliance Management – cGMP, technical operations, and quality systems.
- Operational Excellent certifications preferred: Green/Black Belt, Lean manufacturing.
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