Operations Specialist

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Controls or operates machinery or equipment to assist with manufacturing, packaging, and other steps along a production line. May be expected to handle heavy machinery

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing safety, training, environmental compliance, and housekeeping efforts while ensuring team accountability.
• Ensure regulatory and SOP compliance (FDA, EMA, IPEC, ISO, GMP) through oversight, training, and documentation support.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in GMP documentation, training effectiveness, deviation reduction, and product release processes.
• Lead batch readiness and quality meetings, including BMA Batch Preparedness and Trackwise meetings, with documentation tracking and follow-up.
• Manage and report departmental metrics, including data entry, trending, fault log oversight, and manufacturing cost tracking in SAP.
• Support operational improvement projects and technical initiatives, partnering with business leaders to enhance manufacturing capabilities.
• Assist with process validation, transfers, and new product introductions, including CMO projects, RESOMER® products, and medical device integration.
• Support cleanroom process integration and validation activities, including PSSR coordination, batch record development, and execution of IOQ validations.
  
  

Requirements

• BS Degree in science or engineering is preferred.
• 1-3 years relevant industry experience in pharmaceutical and/or chemical industry with production/manufacturing experience.
• Competent level understanding of operational requirements for cleanrooms in FDA regulated
  
  

environment.

• Detailed knowledge of the scientific principles pertaining to standard processing and manufacturing equipment including, but not limited to, extruders, pumps, stirred-reactors, filtration devices, hot oil systems, cooling systems, grinding mills, pelletizers, fillers, etc.
• Excellent written, verbal, organizational, and people skills
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Ability to multi-task and manage complicated, dynamic manufacturing activities in multiple locations on time and on/under budget while also managing other job-related tasks/activities.
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with senior management regarding aspects of past, present and future programs/projects.
  
  

The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.

Your Application

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at https://careers.evonik.com.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Kelvin Seals [C]

Company is

Evonik Corporation