Production Specialist

This position manages and performs activities in the Manufacturing organization related to inventory control, production planning and tracking, training excellence, documentation, improvement initiatives, and quality. The primary objective of the position is to meet quality, production, and improvement goals.

Responsibilities

• CAPA:

Lead event investigations using root cause problem solving tools. Write and obtain approval for investigation reports to meet timeliness goals and production schedule. Manage corrective action deliverables to ensure timely completion. Interface with Manufacturing batch record review and Quality to address batch record errors.

Work with Department supervision to develop and implement Right The First Time improvement and Human Error Reduction initiatives.

o Track and report metrics.

• Training:

Work with Department supervision to develop and implement Training Excellence initiatives and use ISOtrain to ensure department personnel are assigned appropriate training curriculum. Conduct general awareness training.

Monitor Department personnel training compliance to reduce and eliminate controllable missed training.

Interface with site training coordinator, track and report metrics.

• Documentation:

Work with cross functional teams to improve and update directions. Interface with Documentation Center personnel to revise documents.

• Inventory maintenance and production tracking:

Subject matter expert in SAP for inventory and production. Track and report bulk usages. Support production in inventory management.

Interface with Planning to create and manage production process order numbers and batch numbers.

Initiate and track blanket purchase orders for goods and services to support production.

Track weekly and monthly yield performance and report to Department supervision and Finance.

• BS degree in Engineering or Science is preferred.
• 5+ years experience with pharmaceutical, biological, chemical manufacturing or similar is preferred
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft office and communications software packages.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at  the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors  including  geographic location, and we may ultimately  pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be  modified in the future. ​
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​
• This job is eligible to  participate in our short-term incentive programs.  Note: No amount of pay is  considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned,  vested,  and determinable. The amount and availability of  any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a   particular employee  remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be  modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion,  consistent with applicable law.

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