Manager of Production & Facilities - Biotech

Company Description

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Our high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality and range.

Our tools play a key role in customer workflows from discovery applications through to commercial manufacture and enable its customers to: bring new diagnostics and therapies to market; progress research and development; optimize food production; and continuously monitor and enhance the quality of food, the environment and consumer products.

LGC’s 175+ years of scientific heritage, combined with a track record of innovation and value-enhancing acquisitions, has enabled the company to build its product portfolio and expertise, and develop deep relationships with customers, industry partners and the global scientific community.  Join us and help us achieve our mission of Science for a Safer World! 

Our kit and component manufacturing sites are situated across the US (Middleton, Petaluma, and  Novato) and Europe (Berlin and Lystrup) and are underpinned by either ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 compliance. These capabilities support a wide portfolio of off-the-shelf components and kits critical to NGS workflows including magnetic beads, oligos, enzymes, and library prep kits. Additionally, our primary manufacturing capabilities enable customization and bulk (OEM) manufacture of reagents such as key NGS enzymes for high volume applications.

Job Description

The Manager of Production & Facilities leads the teams responsible for the management of facilities as well as the successful manufacture, dispense, and final assembly of all products at the company’s site in Middleton, WI. This individual ensures that the strategy, processes, administration, and tactical execution of all equipment, facilities, and physical infrastructure needs are appropriately defined to support successful business operations and regulatory requirements. This role works closely with other departments such as Supply Chain, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Finance, Process Development, and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) to ensure the timely, safe, high-quality, and profitable execution of manufacturing operations.

The Manager plans, directs, manages, and coordinates group personnel and operational resources involved in the designated responsibilities at the site. In partnership with HR and operational leadership, this individual is expected to foster a positive, safe work environment and a culture of ownership and accountability.

• Provide overall leadership to teams under direct remit in the areas of safety, efficacy, cost, resources, and engagement
• Manage personnel to effectively deliver the manufacture of product meeting customer and quality standards, while also ensuring compliance with applicable quality and regulatory standards
• Direct the Facilities team and external vendors to satisfactorily deliver the operations and maintenance of site facilities, equipment procurement, qualification, calibration, and preventive maintenance program
• Under direction by leadership, develop and manage operational strategy and lean processes to reduce cost; improve efficiency, scale, quality, and safety; and demonstrate improvement in the customer experience
• Responsible for personnel activities of direct and indirect reports, including budgeting; staffing; training; performance evaluations; mentoring and coaching; and goal setting, including setting employee objectives linked to business initiatives and other key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Serve as an effective operational partner to teams spanning multiple functions, sites, and regions
• Establish processes following designated standards and quality management systems, setting and standardizing KPI’s to evaluate effectiveness and improvements
• Support customer and regulatory body audits as requested; ensure training and documentation requirements are met to support regulatory standards
• Negotiate and manage the purchase of professional services and equipment in support of site operations; deliver facility projects, including construction and design, within specified timelines and budget
• Partner with site and financial leadership to develop annual operating and capital budgets; drive cost reductions in functional area of ownership; lead cost improvement priority projects in other parts of the business
• Conscientiously learn and diligently follow the requirements of the site’s quality management system

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