Manager, Environmental Monitoring

Position Summary

The Manager, Environmental Monitoring leads Empower Pharmacy’s cleanroom and contamination control programs, ensuring operational excellence and regulatory compliance. This role balances strategic vision with hands-on leadership, guiding a team of analysts to uphold the highest standards of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), data integrity, and patient safety. With a focus on innovation, continuous improvement, and talent development, the Manager drives initiatives that expand Empower’s ability to deliver safe, high-quality, and affordable medications to patients worldwide.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Directs the design, execution, and continuous improvement of the environmental monitoring program, ensuring alignment with United States Pharmacopeia (USP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) standards.
• Leads and develops a high-performing team of analysts, providing coaching, mentoring, and career growth opportunities to support professional development and organizational excellence.
• Oversees complex investigations, risk assessments, and contamination control strategies, ensuring corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) are implemented effectively and sustained.
• Partners cross-functionally with Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), and Manufacturing teams to embed contamination control principles into daily operations and major projects, including cleanroom design and qualification.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for regulatory inspections and audits related to environmental monitoring, representing Empower with expertise, confidence, and credibility.
  
  

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The employee is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and strategic planning skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of management and build high-performing teams.
• Advanced technical proficiency in environmental monitoring systems, aseptic practices, cleanroom design and qualification, data integrity systems, regulatory reporting tools, and Microsoft Office applications.
  
  

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer centric solutions.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quality, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and objectives.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match shifting demands of different situations.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
  
  

Values

• People: Our people define who we are as a company, and we believe that understanding and addressing the needs of our team, clients, and community is fundamental to fostering a culture of support and growth.
• Quality: Quality stands at the core of our mission, reflecting our commitment to excellence in every medication we produce.
• Service: We are here to serve others. Every interaction with our patients, providers, employees and other stakeholders comes from a place of service.
• Innovation: By continuously exploring new methodologies and embracing technology, we ensure that every solution we offer is at the forefront of pharmaceutical care.
  
  

Experience And Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare manufacturing, with strong expertise in cleanroom operations, quality systems, and environmental monitoring; plus at least 2 years of supervisory experience.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a life science field; a master’s degree is strongly preferred.
• Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) certification preferred; advanced aseptic technique certification strongly preferred; International Organization for Standardization (ISO) training strongly preferred; Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) training preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI in daily work to drive efficiency, solve problems, and enhance decision-making—adept at integrating AI-powered solutions into all workflows.
  
  

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more: https://careers.empowerpharmacy.com/benefits/