Manager, Manufacturing

**Position Description**: To support in the production process of veterinary biologics according to a defined production schedule following Good Manufacturing Practices,guidelines and specific outlines of production to meet market demands for aquaculture products.

**Functions, Duties, Tasks**:

- Comply with company quality and safety standards, adhere to safety first and quality always mindset.
- Ensures production operations comply with safety requirements, Good Manufacturing Practices, Standard Operating Procedures, and manufacturing documentation.
- Ensures the product produced according to their approved Outline of Product/Product Dossiers and to Good Manufacturing Practices guidelines to meet market demand for the aqua products.
- Drive & model behaviours in alignment with company principles with a particular emphasis on speaking up for safety & quality.
- Provides technical leadership to cross functional technical team.
- Demonstrates direction including adherence to standard calendar including Huddles and Gemba’s.
- Facilitates the daily huddle meeting, ensures cross functional attendance, metrics delivery and action completion / accountability.
- Provides routine update to control tower on key issues, mitigations, and schedule adherence.
- Facilitates cross functional team meetings, including routine balanced scorecard review, continuous improvement project prioritization and improvement delivery accountability.
- Works with cross functional process team to deliver one schedule including all production and maintenance activities.
- Works with Supply Chain to manage raw material issues / Bill of material improvements.
- Holds routine 1:1’s with supervisor(s) and completes performance management and development discussions.
- Ensures that performance management and/ development discussions are completed for Production Technicians and Process Technicians.
- Guide significant deviation investigations using structured root cause analysis
- Reviews revisions to batch records, Standard Operating Procedure, qualification documents for the production operations.
- Implements small operational changes including writing change controls, ensuring compliance to procedure.
- Provides input to user requirement specifications (URS) documents for key capital projects.
- Acts as production lead for Capital projects ensuring the operational readiness plan is defined and completed on time.
- Escalates significant issues and potential solutions to the Operations Director.
- Other duties as required.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a life science (e.g., Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Biology).
- 5-10 years of experience in the manufacturing industry is preferred.
- Mininum 3-years previous supervisory experience.
- Expertise performing investigations and writing deviations.
- Expertise in completing production documentation (i.e., deviations, Standard Operating procedure, Correctice Actions & Preventive Actions, etc.).
- Intermediate/expert computer skills using MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), SAP and experience is required.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both communications and written.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Thorough technical understanding of quality systems and regulatory requirements.
- Have a strong resiliency to change in the manufacturing environment.
- Lean or Six sigma experience.

**Other Information**:

- Role will be available for contact 12 hours a day 7 days a week for emergency situations.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

**Secondary** Language(s) Job Description**:
**Description du poste**: Soutenir le processus de production de produits biologiques vétérinaires selon un calendrier de production défini en suivant les directives cGMP (Bonnes pratiques de fabrication)et les plans de production spécifiques pour répondre aux demandes du marché pour les produits aquacoles.

**Fonctions, Devoirs, Tâches**:

- Respecter les normes de qualité et de sécurité de l'entreprise, adhérer à la mentalité de sécurité d'abord et de qualité toujours.
- S'assure que les opérations de production respectent les exigences de sécurité, Bonnes pratiques de fabrication, les Procédures opératoires normalisées et la documentation de fabrication.
- S'assure que le produit est fabriqué selon leur plan approuvé de produit/dossiers de produit et selon les directives Bonnes pratiques de fabrication pour répondre à la demande du marché pour les produits aquatiques.
- Encourager et modéliser des comportements en alignement avec les principes de l'ent