Medical Manufacturing jobs in Dublin, County Dublin

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Job Description

Join our dynamic team and make a difference!

Are you a motivated leader looking for a challenging and rewarding role in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing? We're seeking a Manufacturing Supervisor to join our team at AbbVie North Dublin.

The AbbVie North Dublin site is a dynamic OSD site with a diverse portfolio of technologies and associated products. This role is an integral part of the site management team and involves overseeing and guiding the daily operations and performance of a manufacturing team, ensuring compliance with the System for Management. Products made at AbbVie North Dublin account for a significant percentage of the global revenue for the wider AbbVie network.

At our AbbVie North Dublin site you can enjoy the convenience of on-site perks such as barista for your morning coffee, a well-equipped gym for your morning / evening workout, a delicious and modern canteen for lunch, and free parking to ditch the morning commute stress.

Responsibilities include meeting quality and production goals as per the schedule, ensuring team members are adequately trained and qualified, and managing issues and deviations according to established protocols.

The role requires strict adherence to all relevant laws, regulations, and internal company policies and procedures.

The Manufacturing Supervisor leads a team of Production Operators and reports directly to the Manufacturing Manager.

Main responsibilities

• Collaborate with core team (QA, QC, Engineering, Warehouse etc.) and perform walk abouts to ensure manufacturing areas are inspection ready at all times.
• Establish the expectation and standards, and the supportive environment, to ensure that staff has the capability to meet performance expectations. This includes building staff capability by providing ongoing coaching and mentoring of direct reports, providing timely recognition as well as performance counselling, building and executing development plans, and providing career counselling for career progression.
• Maintain expected standards by reporting weekly on leader standard work activity through standard tracking mechanism.
• Supervise daily manufacturing operations, ensuring production personnel execute their manufacturing activities in strict accordance with production batch records, SOPs, and cGMP guidelines.
• Maintain the weekly and daily production schedules and conduct with the supervisors of support functions daily Tier 2 meetings to review shift production goals and daily post-production meetings to review execution against the shift’s goals.
• Provide the manufacturing direction to employees through a daily Tier 1 meeting to ensure completion of daily manufacturing plan and targets as specified in the daily production plan.
• At daily Tier 1 meetings, assign daily duties and tasks to all manufacturing team members and ensure proper coverage of all equipment by trained, skilled operators.
• Perform production area clearances, short interval controls checks, and shift handovers according to defined procedures and the System for Management.
• Verify that production operators properly follow procedures and submit required documentation completely, accurately and timely according to current cGMPs.
• Maintain accountability for own team’s performance metrics that support the annual operating plan and site strategic plan objectives.
• Escalate production floor issues related to operations personnel and operations support personnel, safety, procedures, materials, process, equipment, automation, utilities, and/or information systems to Tier 3 according to manufacturing and site escalation process.
• Ensure manufacturing staff identify and document events that deviate from normal operations.
• Partner with QA to identify events that are deviations and support QA in the investigation, closure, and CAPA implementation for minor, as well as major and critical manufacturing-owned deviations.
• Ensure data reports on own team’s performance are current, accurate, and distributed according to defined procedures.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of all manufacturing documentation (SOPs, BMRs, On The Job aids) to ensure they are current, accurate, and clearly define process and role responsibilities.
• Seek process innovation and continuous process improvement in production area.
• Schedule and/or deliver training to manufacturing personnel to ensure staff has the requisite skills to perform manufacturing operations correctly, safely, and compliantly.
• Enforce cGMP, safety, housekeeping, and security procedures on the manufacturing floor, maintaining a safe working environment and promptly reporting incidents and accidents to site leadership.
• Provide hands on training, support, and coaching to production personnel on production floor and make timely decisions to ensure that performance Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can be met.
• Complete and conform to all training requirements for job role, including company-required and job-specific training.
• Carry out one to one meetings with at least one direct report weekly.

Qualifications

• Level 8/ Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an engineering or Science related field
• Minimum three years direct supervisory experience
• Demonstrated success in supervising a team, preferably in a pharmaceutical production shop floor environment
• Experienced in aligning individuals and teams to business objectives
• Exposure to Lean manufacturing concepts
• Experience in managing by metrics

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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