Manufacturing Operations Manager

About Us

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a skilled professional to join our team. We offer a comprehensive range of life-changing technologies that span the spectrum of healthcare, with top businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines.

Our diverse portfolio includes diagnostic solutions, diabetes care, medical equipment, and nutritional products. Our dedicated team works tirelessly to integrate new products or processes into existing manufacturing areas.

This involves managing validation & introduction of these changes to ensure all launch activities are completed on time and in full with no impact to product cost or quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Interface with technical and commercial organizations to integrate new products or processes into existing manufacturing areas.
• Monitor performance of equipment, machines, and tools and correct incorrect problems or process parameters that produce low OEE's, non-conforming products, and low yields.
• Direct responsibility for facilitating efficient operations within production areas, optimizing human resources, existing processes, and ensuring production goals are met.
• Lead all capital management activities in the department, ensuring project managers manage their budgets and implement on time and in full, without impacting daily production activities.

Primary Function / Goals / Objectives:

• Fully adhere to Health and Safety Rules and Regulations in the plant.
• Maintain plant safety at the highest level with a zero accident target and immediate response and thorough investigation and corrective action for all hazardous occurrences and accidents.
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is a main priority in any operation carried out in this job function.
• The Principle Projects Manager is responsible for consulting SOPs for any job task he/she may carry out and ensure they fully understand and adhere to the SOP.
• Implement a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with human resources.
• Develop direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate, and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
• Monitor daily work operations and provide direction and guidance to lower-level managers, experienced employees to achieve project goals.
• Oversee project management activity in the department by closely monitoring all Capital, PIER, OEE, Quality, and other project-related initiatives ensuring all are implemented compliantly, on time, in full, and within budget.
• Interact with internal and external customers, meeting regularly, responding to requests, and explaining procedures.
• Interpret and execute policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organization unit.
• Monitor internal and external indicators by reviewing reports and organization literature, meeting with peers, and reading departmental reports.
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of area budget through regular analysis of cost and spending.
• Participate in validation activity, providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
• Manage new product launch/first lot to stock to ensure release is on time and in full.
• Manage several Project Engineers.
• Provide direction and guidance to managers, experienced technical individuals, evaluate performance of, and assist in career development planning for subordinates.