About the Role
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee manufacturing, packaging, and warehouse operations.
- Ensure production plans and delivery targets are achieved on time.
- Maintain compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), SOPs, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure manufacturing documentation is accurate and audit-ready.
- Work closely with Quality Assurance to manage deviations, investigations, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs).
- Monitor production performance, including yield, scrap, rework, and downtime.
- Lead, develop, and manage production supervisors, team leaders, and operators.
- Ensure workplace health, safety, and environmental compliance.
- Coordinate with Procurement and Engineering to ensure material availability and equipment reliability.
- Manage production costs, budgets, workforce planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Engineering, Production Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years’ management experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of GMP and regulatory requirements is advantageous.
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience is advantageous.
- Experience in a contract manufacturing (CMO/CDMO) environment is advantageous.
- Experience managing unionised workforces is advantageous.
- A postgraduate qualification would be an advantage.
Salary
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