Pharmaceutical Production / Manufacturing Team Leader

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Pharmaceutical Production / Manufacturing Team Leader - Night Shift – Oxford
Opportunity:
Are you currently working as a Production Team Leader / Manager within the pharmaceutical or related scientific industry? Have you managed a small team of employees? Looking for your next career move? Yes then this is the role for you.
Your role as a Pharmaceutical Production / Manufacturing Team Leader based in Oxford will involve leading all aspects of the cleanroom production through management of workload, staff resources, inventory, and equipment, while ensuring compliance with the manufacturing license and quality system requirements.
The role will be working on a 10.00 pm till 6.00 am shift pattern, starting on Sunday at 10pm and finishing on a Friday at 6am.
Essential duties and responsibilities:

  • Managing the production workload and targets.
  • Managing staff resource - preparing staff rota's, directing cleanroom staff, providing feedback on staff performance, monitoring timekeeping and enforcing attendance policy, responsible for completion of shift duties, ensuring hand over between shifts, line manager to technicians and senior technicians.
  • Representing the Production Supervisor – managing annual leave requests and attending meetings as required.
  • Inventory control – liaising with procurement department, resolving stock discrepancies and reviewing /minimizing wastage.
  • Environmental monitoring – scheduling fortnightly EM by month end, managing non-routine isolator breaches, and operator/isolator validations.
  • Equipment - Preparing equipment for maintenance, completing required processes and checks to return equipment to production and managing equipment failure.
  • Training – Identifying training needs and developing and delivering training sessions.
  • Dealing with non - conformances.
  • Generic Competencies - GDP, EHS, Meet online training requirements, access SOP's, and cross-site knowledge.
    This is a full time permanent job opportunity really suited for candidates doing a similar role with supervisory leadership experience looking for your next career move. Salary is between £36,000 - £42,910 per annum with excellent benefits including bonus, Life insurance, Pension, share options, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays on top.
    Skills:
    To apply for the role of Pharmaceutical Production / Manufacturing Team Leader you will have the following:
  • Supervisory. team leader experience ideally within the pharmaceutical or related industry.
  • Strong work ethic and work flexibly to meet the business needs.
  • Analytical and meticulous approach to resolving problems.
  • Excellent quality standards and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team environment.
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes including Excel.
    How to Apply:
    To apply for this one off opportunity, please send a word copy of your CV to me now by clicking on the Apply button or call me for a confidential chat. Please ensure you have read and agree to our Privacy Policy which can be found on the Quality Start website.
    If this sounds like the role for you or a colleague then please don’t hesitate to contact us. If we manage to successfully fill a permanent placement from your recommendation then we will send you a cheque of £300. We also have many incentive schemes for referring contractors/temp staff so please contact us with the referral and we can provide you with more information.
    For a list of our current vacancies, please visit the Quality Start website.
    If you do not hear from Quality Start within 2 weeks your CV has not been short listed for this role.
    Quality Start are acting as a specialist recruitment consultancy for this role

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