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Supervisor Day, Microbial Manufacturing
AGC BiologicsCopenhagen, Denmarkfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Dec 2025
About the role
<p><b>Our purpose is to bring hope to life by enabling life-changing therapies for patients around the globe, creating a healthier and happier tomorrow. Our mission is to work side by side with our customers in order to improve patients’ lives by bringing new biopharmaceuticals to market.</b></p><p></p><p><b>Manufacturing Supervisor – Microbial Day Shift</b></p><p><i>Are you a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced GMP manufacturing environment? Do you enjoy being a visible role model on the shop floor and supporting a team in delivering safe, compliant, and efficient operations? Then join a dynamic and international company where everyone is responsible for delivering right on time as one team.</i></p><p><i>With AGC Biologics’ continued growth, we are establishing a new Supervisor role to strengthen daily operational leadership across </i><i>Microbial Manufacturing.</i></p><p></p><p><b>The Manufacturing Team</b></p><p>The Manufacturing Department is responsible for executing GMP operations across multiple production lines supplying drug substance for pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial manufacturing. We collaborate closely with Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Process Support functions to ensure reliable operations and continuous improvement.</p><p>As Supervisor, you serve as the first-line leader for a team of 6–10 technicians, depending on department and production processes. You work side-by-side with your team to maintain safety, documentation accuracy, operational flow, and strong team engagement.</p><p></p><p><b>The Position – Day/Evening Shift</b></p><p>The Night Supervisor works in a rotating shift schedule depending on department needs. Your physical presence on the shop floor secures real-time decision-making, problem-solving, coaching, and stable execution of production activities.</p><p>This role covers:</p><p>Microbial Manufacturing (Downstream)</p><ul><li>Harvest, recovery, and purification activities</li><li>Support across the microbial manufacturing department</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Key Responsibilities</b></p><p>You will:</p><p>• Lead daily operations on the shop floor and ensure safe, compliant execution</p><p>• Guide <span>technicians/operators</span> in real time and support troubleshooting when needed</p><p>• Ensure documentation accuracy and drive strong GMP behavior</p><p>• Monitor process performance and maintain production flow throughout the shift</p><p>• Secure effective handovers between shifts and maintain alignment across 24/7 operations</p><p>• Support training, process confirmations and continuous improvement work</p><p></p><p><b>Your Qualifications</b></p><p></p><p>You likely bring:</p><p>• A technical or academic background within biotechnology, bioprocessing or engineering</p><p>• Experience from GMP manufacturing</p><p>• Leadership exposure — formal or informal</p><p>• A proactive mindset and the ability to stay calm and structured during busy periods</p><p>• Strong communication skills and a natural ability to motivate others</p><p>• Familiarity with Lean or structured problem solving is a plus</p><p></p><p><b>Who You Are</b></p><p></p><p>You are an engaged, visible leader who enjoys working closely with people and setting direction in a dynamic production environment. You value teamwork, safety and quality and you contribute to a positive and solution-oriented culture.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>AGC offers</b><br/>AGC offers a dynamic working place with good opportunities of working with a varied array of tasks and challenges. You will get insight into and experience with the way the various departments throughout a contract manufacturing organization interact in order to achieve success. Exciting and challenging assignments will constantly come your way, and you will to a large extent be able to plan your daily work yourself. AGC offers an informal working environment, where humor is part of the daily work life. We respect each other and our individual differences. AGC’s employees have a flexible attitude and we help each other to reach deadlines together as one team.</p><p></p><p><b><i>Our culture at AGC Biologics is defined by the six core values: Knowledge, Trust, Quality, Ingenuity, Accountability and Teamwork. Our core values stem from our team members and are embedded into our DNA. They provide a common language and understanding of how we as an organization are connected across three continents. Our core values serve as a compass and reminder of how we achieve our purpose of bringing hope to life for patients around the globe. <br/> </i></b></p><p><b><i>AGC Biologics is a leading global biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standard of service as we work side-by-side with our clients and partners, every step of the way. We provide world-class development and manufacture of mammalian and microbial-based therapeutic proteins, plasmid DNA (pDNA), messenger RNA (mRNA
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