Senior Operations Team Manager

Catalent Pharma Solutions have a new vacancy for a Senior Operations Team Manager to support the 24/7 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing process at the Swindon Zydis facility. The Senior Operations Team Manager position is responsible for the day-to-day leadership of designated process teams ensuring a safe and compliant environment manufacturing quality product. Leading a team operating in a fast paced and highly regulated environment, you will need to be self-motivated and have the ability and confidence to work autonomously. This is a shift-based role (Shifts 2 days on, 2 nights on and 4 days off (12 hour days 7am – 7pm).

The Role

• You are responsible for managing the end to end manufacturing process from dispensing and mixing through to inspection, sealing and secondary packaging.
• Responsible for delivery of targets achieving KPI’s of SQDCP within your process; delivery of targets achieving KPI’s; and for ensuring you can cover key processes on shift.
• Manage and motivate your operations team to deliver their goals and objectives.
• Lead a Health and Safety culture within operations; ensure team consistently sets site safety best practices by demonstrating zero tolerance behaviour, continually challenging and raising safety standards.
• Eliminate risk to the employees, products and environment through rigorous safety and accident investigations and high quality current risk assessments.
• Lead a Compliance culture within operations; act as a role model for company quality values by continually raising standards.
• Manage the Operations Quality dashboard to meet or exceed targets, including ongoing reduction in the quantity of PR’s raised.
• Lead daily shift meetings, managing resources and ensuring issue resolution to ensure daily shift targets are achieved.
• Work collaboratively with up and down-stream customers to deliver the hourly, daily and weekly targets.

The Candidate

• Passionate and energetic with a ‘Can Do’ infectious attitude.
• Experience of leading a team and developing people.
• Actively seeks and promotes opportunities to improve, whilst also remaining focused through clear and effective prioritization.
• IT literate with demonstrable Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel/spreadsheets, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Knowledge of Pharmaceutical GMP requirements.
• Detailed understanding of change control and associated processes.
• Advanced performance management tools (e.g., Six Sigma) is advantageous.
• Minimum of GCSEs or equivalent A-C.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Shift premium.
• Private Health Care.
• Bonus.
• Shifts 2 days on, 2 nights on and 4 days off (12 hour days 7am – 7pm).

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.