Position Summary

Fortis partners with diagnostics and life sciences companies to design, validate, and manufacture solutions to solve their complex development problems. Fortis’ tailored approach and end-to-end capabilities accelerate the work of its customers as they bring the next generation of medicines and diagnostics to market. Fortis serves a global customer base and has offices across the world including four R&D sites and three GMP and ISO 13485 compliant manufacturing facilities in North America.

The Manufacturing Operations Manager is a multifaceted role with responsibilities across both Manufacturing and the commercial enterprise. This position has primary responsibility for production planning with additional responsibilities in managing multiple inventories as well as interacting with customer service and sales.

What You Will Do

• Oversee all aspects of the production planning process including antigens, plasma/serum, semi-finished and finished materials as applicable.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the customer service and business development in relaying product availabilities and status updates.
• Working with Manufacturing Execution and Quality Control, ensure all products are tested and/or delivered within stated lead times.
• Manage team with primary responsibility for all bulk/custom orders as well as the management, testing and downstream prioritization of all polyclonal raw materials,
• Track in process large and small animal projects for manufacturing and make changes due to shifting priorities.
• Maintain ideal numbers of animals on-lease and available to ensure proper levels of plasma/serum materials for manufacturing
• Maintain titer information on all big five animals and oversee pool and queue process.
• Work with Manufacturing leadership on continuous improvement initiatives, new data tools and dashboards.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by management, which may not be listed above, that are necessary to accomplish our goal of improving lives by supporting scientific discovery.

Who You Are & What You Bring

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Mathematical and scientific skills.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Must be able to multitask and/or quickly adjust to shifting priorities.
• Written and oral communication skills including articulate in the English language.
• Solid planning, priority setting, and project management skills with experience managing multiple priorities concurrently.
• Proficiency in computer applications such as Microsoft Office Suite, Internet Explorer, Adobe, etc.

Preferred educational and experiential background:

• Bachelor's or Advanced degree in relevant scientific field.
• 5 years' experience in a related role - preferably in protein manufacturing.
• Expert level knowledge of manufacturing and inventory management functions of SAP or an equivalent ERP system.
• Expert level knowledge of Microsoft Excel