Supervisor, Packaging

Bausch Health Canada is the international head office of Bausch Health Companies, one of the fastest growing international pharmaceutical companies dedicated to bringing quality health and wellness products to all Canadians.

Our team manufactures and markets a wide variety of pharmaceutical and health products that are distributed in pharmacies, healthcare practices and hospitals across the country.

At Bausch Health, we invest in our employees and we believe in the importance of cultivating performance and outdoing ourselves in finding new and better solutions with the aim of responding innovatively and effectively to current needs.

**1. Summary of the position**

Reporting to the Head of Packaging, the incumbent supervises the packaging fitters and technicians, and is primarily responsible for coordinating all the department's technical activities. He oversees employee training and development, and manages technical projects. As a participative leader, he suggests opportunities for continuous improvement and appropriate cost reduction activities.

**2. Main responsibilities**
- Supervise fitters and technicians to ensure the efficiency of production and packaging operations.
- Ensure technical coordination of product development in compliance with quality, safety and environmental constraints.
- Guarantee the integration and technical supervision of projects.
- Provide technical advice and assistance to employees to ensure efficient and rapid troubleshooting of equipment.
- Develop and write procedures to improve productivity, and monitor, control and ensure compliance with these procedures.
- Facilitate the development and implementation of continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives.
- Manage the implementation of the preventive maintenance plan defined with the technical departments.
- Controls and monitors purchases of parts within a defined budget.
- Ensures compliance with GMP within the department and on projects (issue of Change Controls, CAPA, participation in investigations).
- Ensures compliance with HSE policy in his/her department by proposing HSE improvements through the PASS and following up on corrective actions resulting from incident/accident analyses.
- Provide job-specific training, verify that training records are current and accurate, and ensure that all training requirements comply with GMP and safety regulations.
- Manage relationships with partners, suppliers and contractors.

**3. Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or industrial engineering or equivalent
- 3 to 5 years' relevant experience in a similar role in a pharmaceutical production environment
- Working knowledge of regulations governing the pharmaceutical industry
- Experience in project management
- Excellent leadership skills, including people development, conflict management and collaborative decision-making
- Interpersonal skills and ability to mobilize people at all levels of the organization
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- The masculine is used in this publication without prejudice for the sake of conciseness._
- Bausch Health is committed to equal employment opportunity and complies with equal employment opportunity laws in effect wherever it operates._

Bausch Health is an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.