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The Operations Delivery Engineer is responsible for managing equipment transfers and product launch dates in accordance with project timelines.  In addition, this person will be directly involved in the training and skills development of staffing related to new processes and equipment.  The Operations Delivery Engineer will also help to develop and improve Job Instructions, SOP’s and batch records on a regular basis. This position plays a key role in understanding process data and observations from the shop floor to drive systematic improvements.  The Operations Delivery Engineer reports to the Tableting Operations Manager and collaborates cross functionally with all manufacturing departments as well as Technical Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Quality Departments.

Key Responsibilities:

Critical contributions this role is counted on to deliver include:

• Developing standards and procedures to improve reliability of manufacturing process

• Execution of timelines concerning new equipment and product launches   

• Key contributor in skills development and training of staff

• Leading root cause problem solving for Operational NCCAPAs (non-conformance corrective actions & preventive actions reports) and Customer complaints and identifying how to prevent reoccurrence

• Supporting Operational Excellence initiatives including Total Productive Maintenance programs, i.e. Autonomous Maintenance, OEE 

• Leveraging your Technical Mastery of manufacturing to aide with successful new product launches, understanding processing times (routers), and implementing process improvements

• Utilizing appropriate problem-solving techniques to determine root causes of manufacturing failures (Design of experiments, RCFA, FMEA, etc.) and initiates necessary corrective action to eliminate/reduce recurrence. 

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is recognized as a strong technical leader with hands-on experience within a Tablet manufacturing environment with knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).  You will possess a "discover, learn and apply" mentality that can motivate others to succeed. You will also have a proven track record for implementing and sustaining operations systems, methods, skills, and behaviors. 

Critical Success Factors:

You’ll be most successful in this role if you have:

• Knowledge of Tableting manufacturing processes and familiarity of equipment

• Driven reliability and work process improvements leveraging experience from the operations, technical/process knowledge in a sustainable way.  

• Reduced Operational Non-conformance (NCRs)/Customer Complaints and associated loss (reject/destruction) while ensuring robust root cause problem-solving and the right corrective/preventative actions (CAPAs). 

• Successful new product development (NPD) transfer. 

• Demonstrated a continuous improvement mentality, searching for the next improvement opportunity using data, qualitative information, and direct observation of the process. 

• Demonstrated behaviors that are effective in sustaining success using plan-do-check-act (PDCA) processes.  

• Participated in or lead a change cross functionally in a manufacturing environment to align to a vision or industry best practices.  

Required Skills & capabilities

To take on these challenges, you will need to have:

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, operations engineering or process improvement within an industrial manufacturing or military environment  

• Knowledge in data analysis techniques such as Statistical Process Control, Fault Tree, Fishbone, Six Sigma (DMAIC) 

• Strong quantitative acumen with the ability to perform data analysis including the ability to perform