Sr. Director, Production

A brief overview

The Senior Director of Production is a pivotal leadership role responsible for overseeing all aspects of Upstream or Downstream production operations. This role demands a strategic thinker with extensive experience in production management, operational excellence, lean manufacturing, and cost management. This individual is accountable for the effective utilization of the human and equipment resources involved in the assigned production areas, meeting productivity and cost control targets. This individual supports the VP of Production and site leadership in implementing the long-term strategic roadmap for production, ensuring alignment with overall site strategy, demand, and customer needs. This individual implements initiatives and policies to enhance quality, safety, and operational excellence following GMP manufacturing principles, routinely analyzing production budgets and making necessary adjustments. Additionally, this individual manages the design of the production organization, making appropriate adjustments in size and skillset, and setting and managing performance goals for the production workforce. This individual will directly, and through his direct/indirect team managers, select, hire, and train new team members, routinely evaluate team members to ensure standards of performance are met, and assign responsibilities.

What you will do

• Direct and work with production team of managers, chemists and technicians to manage production workflow, schedule and quality
• Establish and enforce production and quality standards
• Motivate team members to deliver exceptional work and exceed expectations
• Understand customer requirements and prepare production plan accordingly
• Create, update and implement policies and procedures for manufacturing
• Develop growth opportunities for employees
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, benchmarking state of the art industry practices, and participating in professional societies
• Ensure that reporting employees receive adequate environmental, health and safety training
• Ensure that any operating or occupational accidents and incidents involving employees reporting to you are properly recorded and investigated to a productive conclusion. This includes ensuring employees are appropriately monitored and managed to address unacceptable levels of performance
• Ensure a positive safety culture is developed within the area, and is supported by robust safety processes in accordance with industry standards and legislation
• Ensure safety arrangements are adhered to and protect the health and safety of employees, visitors, contractor, and the public

Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry /Chemical Engineering or related field with 8-10 years related experience required or
• Master's Degree in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering with 10-15 years related experience required or
• Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry / Chemical Engineering with 15 to 20 years’ related experience required
• 7-9 years Managerial experience in cGMP manufacturing required and
• 4-6 years Peptide and oligo nucleotide manufacturing experience in upstream and downstream manufacturing preferred
• Strong knowledge of Chemistry /Chemical Engineering along with cGMP manufacturing focus
• Proficient with large scale manufacturing and process development
• Proficient with various in-process analytical methods
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Basic computer knowledge, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to effectively organize, multitask, and work in a fast-paced, deadline driven work environment
• Ability to communicate in a proactive and solution-focused manner, including keeping management aware of potential issues
• Detail oriented with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical and analytical problems
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time
• Communicate effectively and ability to function well in a team environment

Base Annual Salary Range: $141,566.40 - $176.958.00