Supervisor, Manufacturing Operators

3 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Thermo Fisher Scientific Full time

**Work Schedule**

Standard (Mon-Fri)

**Environmental Conditions**

Office

**Position Summary**:
This role involves co-leading the Auckland Biomanufacturing (BMU) production team in the manufacturing of finished serum, freeze dried proteins and cell culture media supplements sold under our market leading Gibco brand. These products serve a variety of customers and are used in the pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and in the biotech industry. You will lead all aspects of day to day operations in the Biomanufacturing Unit and you will be responsible for ensuring our colleagues complete their manufacturing activities safely and in conformance with standard operating procedures and cGMP/ISO principles. This requires ownership and responsibility supervising the production team and overseeing the conversion of raw and intermediate materials to finished products ensuring timely supply of product to meet or exceed customer quality and lead time expectations, as well as business operational targets.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Leadership
- Maintain alignment with the co-supervisor of BMU in the coordination of workload and workflow across multiple production areas including cleanroom operations, freeze drying, UVC and other specialty products processing.
- Lead the team in completion of planned tasks and activities, including shift work and 24/5 production as required.
- Act as delegate to the Manufacturing Manager and co-supervisor as required.
- Lead and be accountable for BMU production deliverables and objectives.
- Maintain a strong focus on improving health and safety outcomes for our teams.
- Enhance the overall customer experience by maintaining service and delivery levels and promoting a right first time culture while maintaining an efficient and safe manufacturing environment.
- On-going development of the manufacturing team through coaching and skills development to support achievement of objectives, personal development and change management.
- Be an SME for the BMU manufacturing facility supporting technical enquires and customer audits as required.
- Take a hands on and team approach to completion of required tasks and hold team members accountable for performance.
- Support and maintain compliance to ISO9001, regulatory requirements and applicable principals of current good manufacturing practices (cGMP).

Manufacturing
- Support and contribute to our quality systems including change controls, deviations, customer audits and notifications, SOP and BMR updates.
- Develop, report and deliver on manufacturing metrics.
- Train others in manufacturing systems and documentation
- Champion and contribute to process improvement and PPI teams to advance customer allegiance, quality, cost, and productivity gains.
- Complete other activities that support maintaining and improving manufacturing processes and systems
- Champion our safety culture by ensuring employee accountability and that safe work practices, including wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are adhered to. Conduct proactive hazard identification and report any accidents, incidents and near misses. Promote the use of hazard identifications within BMU.

**Working conditions**:
Works in an office area and in a production environment. May be required to lift up to 20kg on occasion. Able to work safely with chemicals and hazardous materials and be flexible around hours of work.

**Frequent Contacts**:

- Production planning and purchasing teams.
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control teams.
- Bioproduction teams.

**Minimum Requirements/Qualifications**:
Qualifications & Experience
- Tertiary science qualification
- Experience working in a cGMP/ISO environment in a manufacturing role.
- Experience with and high level of understanding of ISO9001 quality systems and principles
- Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheets, quality and inventory systems
- Experience in people leadership and team development
- Experience and understanding of sterile filtration and aseptic (cleanroom) manufacturing processes, freeze drying, and biological’s production preferred.

**Skills & Attributes**:

- Strong people leadership skills with the ability to motivate, engage, hold people accountable and develop employees.
- Attention to detail.
- Focused, thorough, methodical, systematic.
- Highly self-directed and pro-active
- Excellent communication skills
- Consistent track record implementing continuous improvement and change.
- Adaptable and flexible to changing customer demands and requirements.

**Competencies**:

- Results Driven - Consistently achieves results, even under challenging circumstances.
- Ensures Accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
- Collaboration - Builds partnerships and collaborate to meet shared objectives.
- Problem solving/decision making - Seeks appropriate data and utilises available problem solvi



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