Department Leader, Operations (Packaging) Nights Full-Time - New Albany Ohio

Position Summary:

The Department Leader is responsible for managing the daily operations of an assigned Department and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly results in the areas of safety, quality, cost, productivity, and reliability while meeting department schedule adherence and attainment goals. They model Pharmavite's purpose, beliefs, and values for their employees by embedding a first-time right mentality and promote robust root cause problem solving/CAPA development capability within their team, to attain goals to deliver customer requirements.  Additionally, they are responsible for executing improvement plans and building team capabilities through training, coaching, feedback, and performance management. 

Responsibilities:

• Executes the Annual Operating Plan for their assigned Department, aligning goals and objectives to the company's strategic vision, and ensures operating expenditures meet or exceed expectations. 

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``` - Leads and sets the standard and tone for their team by modeling Pharmavite's purpose, beliefs, and values and while driving meeting schedule adherence and attainment goals to deliver customer requirements.  - Prioritize work to ensure productivity, safety, housekeeping, and quality product goals are met/exceeded; coordinate daily scheduling with other departments to facilitate flow of materials and finished goods through the department. Monitors operations of shift while sustaining changes to ensure first time right mentality. - Accountable for team performance through teaching, coaching, and providing meaningful feedback to build capabilities and to drive a culture of high performance and engagement. - Collaborate with Production Planning, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Distribution, HR, Tech Ops, Engineering, Planning, Operational Excellence and Receiving departments to expedite and facilitate flow of raw materials, compounds, bulk, and finished product through the department. - Investigate NCRs working in partnership with Quality to drive root cause problem-solving with urgency. - Champion/Coaches teams on Autonomous Maintenance projects and daily improvement initiatives. - Perform analysis of raw material usage and product yields to ensure standards are met or exceeded. - Ensure safe practices are being performed and unsafe behaviors and conditions are corrected. - Provide technical support for staff with equipment and processes (trouble shoots and develops control techniques). - Oversees and ensures operating expenditures meet or exceed expectations. - Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

A four-year degree or its equivalent combination of education/relevant work experience is required.

Certification:

Six Sigma and or Lean/Continuous Improvement experience preferred.

Obtain internal Lean Green Belt certification and Kata learner within one year of employment.

Experience:

Requires minimum of four years' experience in Manufacturing/Consumer-Packaged Goods environment, to include supervisory/leadership experience.  Specific experience in the department to which applied is preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

      Requires:

Competent knowledge of SOPs, cGMPs, within a CPG environment

Experience working within a rapidly evolving environment, able to adjust to changing job requirements.

Experiencing leading and coaching AM projects.

Experience performing auditing in areas related to cGMPs, Batch Record Accuracy and TPM requirements.

Good organizational, analytical, problem solving,