Production Manager

Leading Pharmaceutical Manufacturer requires an experienced Production Manager with experience working to a high level of GMP experience.

About the role:

• To provide daily leadership and management of a small production team, warehouse team and a maintenance engineer.
• To ensure all the activities within Pharmaceutical and Food/Beverage manufacturing are compliant to current procedures with regards to Quality, Health & Safety and Customer requirements.
• To lead operational excellence and continuous improvement activities - act as a champion at a site leadership level
• To ensure that the weekly and monthly production plans are met.
• To lead the improvement of manufacturing processes and ensure changes are appropriately controlled

Duties may include:

• To be a leader and model for GMP and associated positive behaviours
• To provide leadership for quality and compliance through early investigation of any deviations, putting in place effective CAPA to prevent repeat incidents
• Participation in regulatory and customer audits
• Improvement of workplace organisation and housekeeping with tools such as 5S to maintain audit readiness
• Daily management of EHS in manufacturing and warehouse areas
• Appropriate General, COSHH and Manual Handling risk assessments are in place
• Drive a culture of engaged employees using continuous improvement
• Set and monitor appraisal objectives for the Production Team Leader, Warehouse Lead, Site Engineer. Oversee Operators objectives & general performance
• Mentor, train and develop operational team members
• To set and deliver the monthly budgets for manufacturing & warehouse both in terms of staff and overhead spend
• To continuously improve manufacturing processes to improve 'right first time' compliance and to reduce cost of waste
• To meet the agreed plan and deliver quality product to customers in the agreed timelines (On Time Delivery)
• To organise and manage the manufacturing and engineering teams to deliver an efficient service to both internal and external customers.
• Work with BD and R&D teams to support new product development Responsible for Manufacturing, Safety, Quality, Cost control and Customer Delivery.
• Responsible for ensuring that all manufacturing and associated areas are compliant to GMP
• Adherence to the manufacturing plan, investigating misses and putting in place necessary improvements to avoid recurrence

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

• Experience within a Manufacturing and Operational environment in Natural Products, Pharmaceutical or Food/Beverage Industry.
• Ideally Degree educated - scientific, engineering or operational management preferred
• Proven track record in leadership of manufacturing teams
• Experience of working in an Operational Excellence culture including Daily Accountability, Visual Management and 5S management

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills Health and safety performance - accidents and lost time
• Right First Time - Quality and Performance - Zero defects/Zero Major deviations.
• Adherence to the plan.
• On Time in Full - Customer Satisfaction.
• Downtime and efficiency performance
• Inspection ready at all times
• Development and mentoring of team and core competencies/behaviours

• Production overhead expenditure
• Taking Ownership: High personal accountability for personal actions and those of site employees
• Passion for Quality: Walks the talk regarding Quality insisting on correct practices, processes and behaviours
• Excellent Customer Service: Strives to and delivers customer requirements and communicates importance to the wider site staff
• Continuous Improvement and Delivery: Seizes every opportunity for site and individual improvement. Introduces continuous improvement processes and elevates their importance

You will be joining an extremely well established and growing Pharmaceutical Manufacturer.