Packaging Manager

Location: Chantilly, VA area

Relocation assistance provided

Summary

Scientific Search's client, a well-established pharmaceutical company, has an immediate need for a Packaging Supervisor/Manager. This is a full-time position with a dynamic organization. The Packaging Manager is responsible for the day-to-day packaging operations. The individual supervises, motivates, and supports the staff daily, applying a team approach and maintaining open communication. The Packaging Manager also plans, schedules, strategies, and oversees all packaging activities while continually building quality and compliance.

• Must have bottling packaging line experience within a pharmaceutical/nutraceutical/food manufacturing environment.**
  
  

Responsibilities

• Executing the packaging planning based on the marketing requirement, manpower, and equipment capacity. Ensure product quality meets the specification all the time.
• Supervising a team in packaging, training them on SOPs, cGMP, investigations, CAPAs, protocols and handling quality issues with respect to packaging department.
• Maintaining a GMP compliant work area. Ensuring the production of high-quality products while meeting FDA, OSHA, and company requirements for manufacturing department
• Involves the most effective and efficient use of available resources to produce products that meet or exceed product requirements for cost, quality, and delivery.
• Handling of packaging related business tool (ERP) and ensuring the appropriate date entries.
• Responsible for execution of packaging exhibit, characterization, and validation batches. Responsible for execution of cleaning verification/validation of packaging equipment.
• Monitoring packaging related change controls, deviations, investigations, and implementing the CAPAs for completion on time and implementation of action items. Ensure packaging records, protocols and reports review and approving as necessary.
• Responsible for enforcing all safety procedures and SOPs.
• Report to departmental head about ongoing measurement identifying progress, issues and corrective action status, and planned projects.
• Performs other duties assigned.
  
  

Requirements:

• BS in Science, pharmacy, or related degree
• 8-10 years of packaging supervisory/management experience within the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
• Bottle packaging line experience within a pharmaceutical/nutraceutical manufacturing environment preferred
  
  

Knowledge & Skills:

• Solid writing skills with strong leadership qualities.
• Strong organizational, planning and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of computer programs.
• Time management and planning skills.
• Strong ability to lead and motivate people and deal appropriately with difficult situations, as well as a good awareness of current employment relation laws.