Processing Supervisor

POSITION SUMMARY

This role overseas the Compounding processes for our beauty and cosmetic manufacturing facility located in Morton Grove, Illinois.  Our ideal candidate will have significant experience from organizations that drive processes with zero production losses and that envisions break through sustainable business results.  Responsibilities include managing/optimizing the daily use of process equipment and people operations, motivating/ engaging workforce initiatives, meeting production schedules, liase with upstream and downstream departments, monitor chemical processes, assist with new product development, make sure material is FIFO and utilized correctly, continuous improvement, assist with developing preventive maintenance programs, daily management of department manpower, KPIs and training.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Processing KPI’s

Strives for total compliance with all SOP’s from staff.  Enforces quality processes, standards and procedures, make improvements that contribute to rasining efficiency, meeting department schedules while reducing downtime while fully utilizing processing staff. Evaluates existing systems, staff and equipment while using opportunities to improve and train staff in operating methods. Update SOP’s, Monitor equipment utilization (OEE), submit daioy and monthly department reports. Make improvements to comply with regulatory safety, quality and productivity standards 

Department Improvements

Manage and executes all phases of process improvement projects for processing department. Will include modifying SOP’s., Trauining of personnel, evaluation of proposed projects for feasibility. Prepares, investigates and completes all NCI and CAPA’s in the allotted time given. Monitor and review equipment and system specifications, assist with selection of equipment and vendors, management of departmental budget, assist with preparing for required permits when required, submission of change control requests, preparation and execution of all departmental testing standards.

Employee Development

Makes sure to accurately train and develop employees to be able to follow SOP’s understand and follow GMP compliance, develop a cross training matrix for employees, develop and update job descriptions for employees to be able to explain job requirements, track efficiency along with quality issues for each individual, establish productivity standards for each job/position

Operational Support

Works with other departments to meet or exceed customer requirements regarding schedule attainment, cross functional training, inventory control, scrap reduction and quality improvements.

Compliance

Enforces compliance with all Fareva quality systems and policies. Enforces compliance with all regaulatory departments and agencies.   Led teams with root cause analysis of processing issues and gaps in training or development of personnel.

Planning

Works with Scheduling Manager to ensure proper execution of department schedules, customer requirements and departmental needs. Accurately plans labor to cover all departmental demands. Develops people to be cross trained on equipment or in locations.

Budget Forecasting

Assist in the preparation of the annual capital and departmental operations budget, which includes working with customer’s forecast, labor standards and costing

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• B.S. degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• 5 years of experience in a fast paced cGMP manufacturing environment, with a background in root cause problem solving, Lean Manufacturing practices, and continuous improvement.
• At least 1 - 3 years experience in cosmetics, fine chemicals, or pharmaceutical operations (manufacturing and/or R&D Operations preferred).

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

• Knowledge with bulk tank manufacturing or product packaging  is desired.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal and organization skills required.
• Strong vendor management skills
• Must be detail oriented, committed to service, teamwork and have a high degree of time management skills.Working knowledge of statistics - Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Design of Experiments (DOE) is preferred
• Familiar witgh Project management, technical transfer and regulatory compliance.
• Familiar with Lean tools (i.e poka yoke / mistake proofing / pFMEA, SMED, Standard work, value stream mapping, TPM, 5S, continuous flow, visual factory, pull systems / Kanban, etc.) Formal training beneficial
• Working knowledge of Equipment and Process Validation, statistical sampling methods and cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices).
• Background in training, coaching, and project management skills to develop project scopes, specifications, schedules, timelines, and deliverables.
• Intermediate to advanced level computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, drawing software, SAP).

PHYSICAL POSITION REQUIREMENTS

This position is a operations positions that requires, sitting, standing, walking in a plant environment at times they will be required to analyze data, that may require time to research and process the data at a terminal.  Must be able to travel in all hours of the plant to execute position properly.  Some travel; weekend work may be required.