Manufacturing Supervisor

Use Your Power for Purpose

Our breakthroughs would not reach the hands of patients without our dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing team. We rely on agile members who understand the critical impact of their role in Pfizer’s mission. Patients need colleagues like you who take pride in their work and continuously strive to improve outcomes. Your efforts ensure that patients and physicians have timely access to the medicines they need. 

What You Will Achieve

In this role, you will:

• Ensure a safe work environment. Ability to identify, evaluate, and correct potential hazards in the workplace is essential.
• Coordinate, schedule, and participate in daily activities of cGMP production in the manufacturing area to meet supply chain needs.
• Must be flexible to work rotating shifts to support 24/7 operation. Ensure that product quality is maintained through all phases of commercial production including operational parameters of manufacturing equipment, personnel activities, batch record/processing dynamics, and integrated utilities to identify and resolve quality risk to commercial manufacturing. General knowledge of scientific principles, production equipment and related procedures. 
• Aid in investigations. Responsible for the adherence to established policies, procedures, and practices. Participate in inspections and cGMP and Quality decisions effecting short term production
• Provide supervision to hourly direct reports. Motivate personnel by setting high standards, encourage teamwork. Clear, unambiguous communication is critical.
• Primary contact for all personnel issues occurring within the department. Responsible for development plans and personnel reviews. Make initial decisions encompassing personnel issues, disciplinary actions, career advancement, educational assistance, Emergency situations, including injured employees, facility issues, and inclement weather.
• Review completed batch records. Update curricula, close training gaps, support the training of new colleagues.
• Advise management of non-conformance issues and opportunities for continuous improvement
• Provide input on primary decisions on cGMP related documents developed or revised.
• Articulate challenges and solutions to technical and non-technical peers and to department management.
• Act as a departmental liaison with primary support groups.
• Short range planning includes scheduling daily and weekly operations and staff.
• Support SW and help with longer range planning concerns facilities shutdowns and preventive maintenance.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• High school diploma (or equivalent) with 8+ years of experience or Associate’s degree with 6+ years of experience or Bachelor's with 2+ years of experience or Master's with any years of relevant experience  
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and demonstrated leadership capability in a pharmaceutical and/or manufacturing environment
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and correct potential hazards in the workplace
• Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
• Proficiency in managing quality, compliance, and customer service

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

• General knowledge of scientific principles
• Working knowledge of vaccine or biotechnology product manufacturing in a cGMP environment. Including a working knowledge of fermentation, purification, centrifugation, homogenization, Ultrafiltration and Diafiltration (UF/DF), aseptic techniques and other filtration processes.
• Optimize resources to maximize production and ensure quality and safety standards
• Experience in process improvement and innovation
• Capable of supervising staff independently, can effectively coach, guide and manage employee issues and concerns, and can cover the absence of the next level manager. 

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complex projects
• Maintains accurate tracking records and provides timely feedback to Manager regarding status of costs in their area relating to overtime and waste. 
• Monitors usage and expenses related to supplies and labor costs in their work area.  Implements shop floor practices to continuously meet specific standards. 
• Partners with other departments to implement cost improvement projects (i.e., yield and/or productivity improvements.)

Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel, or Environment Requirements

• This will be 12 hour day shift supervisor role with shift rotation of 2, 2, 3 schedule

Other Job Details:

• Last day to Apply: September 5th