About the role:

You will help ramp up a new plasma fractionation facility to bring us additional capacity for fractionation, purification, and fill and finish of biologic medications. You will manage subordinate supervisors and shift operations within the manufacturing department. You will meet safety, quality, production, and financial goals, set standards, and make employment and staffing decisions. You will report to the Associate Director, Fractionation Manufacturing.

How you will contribute:

• Manage daily manufacturing operations to meet safety, quality, production, and financial targets

• Develop the manufacturing team by ensuring training plans, career development opportunities, and active mentoring

• Interpret and administer manufacturing policies, procedures, and programs

• Emphasize training and implement control systems on the shift to eliminate product discrepancies

• Support manufacturing event investigations from initiation to closure on time to assure compliance with plan. Be a Manufacturing main contact/Subject Matter Expert for product impact decisions.

• Improve and ensure the right goals are implemented and tracked for your shift and cell responsibility.

• Lead by example and maintain production floor presence and focus. Mentor junior level personnel on projects.

• Coordinate necessary manufacturing resources and rally support groups to resolve production-related issues.

• Rapid approach to address production-related issues by providing sustainable long-term solutions.

• Conduct impartial assessment of shift performance – main priority is overall performance of applicable department.

• Constant calibration with other managers focusing on technical background of issue and consequences considered when making decisions.

• Commit to employee feedback and developmental processes.

• Manage shift/team and investigate and resolve disciplinary issues.

• Support and emphasize the Safety and Quality commitments of department.

• Provide resources to assist the department director to meet the annual operating plan and budgetary commitments.

• Lead manufacturing production floor and achieve results.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering or other related technical field.

• 6+ years of related experience with 3+ years in a manufacturing, supervisor role.

• Advanced supervisory skills

• Have a background in building within a manufacturing environment supporting manufacturing/production issues, in a FDA-regulated manufacturing environment.

• Experience with implementation and driving accountability through visual management

• Have knowledge of core principles in multiple manufacturing disciplines (i.e. cell culture / fractionation / purification / aseptic filling / packaging / cGMP facility design), support systems (WFI / RO / clean steam / compressed gasses / HVAC) and facility design.

• Direct experience manufacturing operations and biotechnology processes is ideal.

• Can solve routine and challenging manufacturing problems

Important Considerations

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. You may:

• May wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and other clean room garments daily. This may include safety shoes, safety glasses, aprons, face shields, lab coats, full body gowns, hair nets and gloves and hearing protection.

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.

• Work in a cold, wet environment.

• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours,.

• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and the best patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company to inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.