Manager Operations

AMPAC Fine Chemicals•Rancho Cordova, CA

16h•$130,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

AMPAC Fine Chemicals (AFC), an SK pharmteco company, is a custom manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs, Drug Substances) and registered intermediates for customers in the pharmaceutical industry. Our integrated facilities located in California, Texas, and Virginia specialize in process development, scale-up, and cGMP compliant production from kilograms to multi-ton quantities.

Requirements

BS degree preferred

Responsibilities

Oversight of exempt and non-exempt production employees
Interpret and execute policies that typically affect the supervision and union employee groups and recommend modifications to operating policies when necessary
Assures that all production activities are accomplished in accordance with AMPAC policies, sound business practices and are in compliance with applicable regulations as well as all bargaining union contract agreements
Establishes operational policies which affect subordinate multi-level functional groups. Interprets, executes and recommends policy changes
Provide assistance to subordinates in meeting schedules or to resolve operational problems
Administrator of the training program to ensure that all staff receives the appropriate level of training to perform job functions
Responsible for completing performance, quality, environmental and safety investigations
Issuing discipline for BU and non-BU employees as required
Uphold rules and regulations in accordance with company policies and bargaining union contract agreements
May be responsible for union contract administration including responding to grievances and understanding contract interpretation and negotiation
Responsible for tracking operations yearly goals and performing performance evaluations as required
Maintains contacts with inter-organizational and external representatives. May participate in briefings and technical meetings for internal and external representatives concerning specific and/or organizational projects or operations
Responsible for the application of manufacturing procedures which include planning and supervising of resources to support processing requirements
Promote and facilitate diagnosis of work flow impediments and other wastes throughout the manufacturing areas and provide counsel on appropriate tools to eliminate them
Plan and coordinate work programs for shift operations based on engineering needs
Provide planning and coordination for manufacturing operations/facilities including equipment and facility cleaning, maintenance and contractor work
Provide support for customer or regulatory tours of the manufacturing facilities
Represent manufacturing in meetings and discussions with other functional areas regarding manufacturing standards and operations
Responsible for completing operations readiness review for production starts
Participate in corrective and preventative action plans as relates to quality including participating in designing solutions, delegating tasks or the completion of actions
Audit preparedness of production facilities and all associated production quality documents
Management and oversight of quality programs to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements
Participate in incident root cause analysis, development and implementation of corrective actions
Management and oversight of environmental programs to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements
Will partake in safety and environmental corrective and preventative action plans. Such duties will involve designing solutions, delegating tasks, or completion of actions