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Production Engineering Manager
Description
This position will manage a team of engineers providing production and continuous improvement support for day to day operations of a pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging site. Specifically, the Production Engineering Manager will:
- Directly lead the production engineering team
- Set expectations
- provide feedback and coaching
- ensure appropriate performance and goal attainment of team members
- Continuously assess and ensure the appropriate team structure and coverage is in place to support growth
- Identify gaps and ensure the proper hiring and development of employees with the support of Human Resources.
- Lead cross-functional project teams
Duties:
- Coordinates and leads production engineering team in identifying, planning, and executing projects aimed at performance improvement.
- Manages own major performance improvement initiatives.
- Investigates quality issues and monitors and ensures on time investigation report submission and effectiveness of CAPAs from production engineers.
- Assists the team in breaking work into manageable pieces, helping the team manage capacity, work estimates, and ensures team’s accountability to goals.
- Identifies and assists removing impediments for the team as they arise.
- Facilitates conversations how the team is trending against the overall roadmap, goals, and objectives.
- In conjunction with project engineering, ensures equipment and processes are designed for ease of use and efficiency.
- Monitors projects through control phase and reports results to stakeholders.
- Employs change management strategies to ensure team members are setup for success.
- Creates and updates GMP documentation including but not limited to change controls and standard operating procedures.
- Drives process improvements in all aspects of work.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Minimum of 5 years of work experience in operations, engineering, or quality preferably in an FDA regulated environment
- Greenbelt/Lean Six Sigma training
- Demonstrated ability to work in a high growth environment, making informed but quick decisions, driving results through hands-on implementation
- Demonstrated ability to dive deep into complex systems, identify improvements, and rally support to implement
About us:
Our focus is on health care products that improve people’s lives. We are a market-leading generic prescription pharmaceutical company that specializes in “extended topical” medications, like creams, foams, mousses, gels, liquids and inhalable products. It’s a great time to join our team because we have a high growth trajectory with now more than 1,300 employees across six locations in the United States and Israel. We’ve already established a successful track record of launching first-to-file and first-to-market generic pharmaceutical products that have helped to make prescription products more affordable for patients and reduce costs for the healthcare system. Our team members work in a dynamic environment where opportunity is built on a foundation of honesty and transparency. Please consider joining our team where great things are happening and you can make a difference.
