Job Title:  Manager, Production - Pharmaceuticals

Qualification: Graduate / Post Graduate in Pharmacy with 12 to 15 years of experience in Pharmaceutical Production

• Candidate having an end-to-end process profile experience starting from Dispensing to Secondary packing.
• 10-12 years of exposure on packing profile (primary and second packing)  plus 2-4 years of experience in the manufacturing section

Specific Requirements:

• Experience in Solid Dosage Form (Tablets/Capsules).
• Worked with EU regulatory-approved pants.
• Exposure with having 4 to 5 billion tables manufacturing capacity annually.

Job Summary:

Implement daily/shift-wise production schedules. Adhering to regulatory, GMP, and HSE guidelines in assigned production areas. Ensure consistent quality of the product by supervising a team of  Assistant Manager/Sr. executives/executives/operators with effective utilization of resources to fulfill the production objectives in respective unit operations

• Strong leadership
• Production Techniques/Troubleshooting
• Communication & Time management & team management skills.
• Reporting
• Inter-personal skills and manpower management
• Coordination within the team and cross-functional departments
• Knowledge of SAP and serialization

Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Production

• Monitor departmental priorities, including productivity, yield, and downtime, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Ensuring and maintaining the production activity, quality, safety, and regulatory compliance in production.
• Managing the daily operations of the area, ensuring efficient and timely production of the products.
• Ensure all manufacturing processes comply with cGMP and other global regulatory standards.
• Ensuring and achieving daily/shift-wise output of respective production areas by adhering to regulatory, GMP, and HSE guidelines, with proper utilization of resources and optimum cycle time.
• Ensuring and performing the production activities to achieve the production plan.
• Ensuring and performing all the SAP-related activities as and when needed based on respective unit operations.
• Ensuring and performing all the serialization activities as and when needed based on respective unit operations.
• Monitoring and ensuring execution of department validation as well as qualification activities in assigned timelines in assigned production areas.
• Ensure efficient utilization of plant resources, including labor, materials, and equipment.

Compliance

• Ensuring audit readiness in the production areas.
• Implementing and ensuring compliance to GMP, HSE and ISO guidelines/standards in assigned production areas.
• Ensuring and maintaining GMP documentation for the process as well area documents in assigned production areas.
• Ensuring and maintaining documentation for the process validation and qualification in assigned production areas as and when needed.
• Ensuring GMP as well as HSE training to the staff of the assigned areas.
• Performing internal quality audit as a “Qualified Internal Auditor” during internal Quality Audit abiding the internal quality audit schedule.

Monitoring and Improvement :

• Monitoring and improving the yield of assigned products.
• Monitoring and improving the overall equipment efficiency of respective areas.
• Ensuring and maintaining the standard labour hours of the respective product.
• Monitoring and improving the on-time in full delivery.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and cost reduction in the manufacturing of products.

Training

Ensuring and imparting training to the operative staff on GMP, HSE, ISO requirements, operation of machines, and process improvement as and when required