Duties:
Assisting in daily planning of production.- Ensuring execution of all GMP required training for staff.
- Management and overseeing of the production department and staff members, all visitors that enter production
- Executing and managing the production schedule and activities to achieve pre-determined monthly production targets
- Liaising with warehouse to prepare components for new jobs timeously and assessing shortages before job is put online.
- Overseeing of all manufacturing activities, including opening, closing and clearance of production lines.
- Exercising strict control over Scheduled Substances and ensuring that the scheduled substances register is up to date.
- Working closely with Maintenance department in maintaining equipment, planning preventative maintenance, and addressing ad-hoc breakdowns
- Introducing new products within the facility and conducting trail and validation batches in conjunction with Validation Department.
- Update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and ensure that the staff are trained on the updated versions.
- Attending to internal and external audit and responding with corrective actions and preventative actions (CAPAs)
- To track, analyse and manage all yield losses for all batches produced
- General responsibility in the absence of the General Manager
Compliance with Health and Safety Legislation- Developing, implementing, and improving the health and safety plans, programmes and procedures in the workplace
- Lead compliance with respect to the OSHACT and ensure all employees with the operations/production department comply with the act, report all unsafe conditions, and ensure they always work safely.
Employee Management (Absenteeism, Employee Morale & Overtime)
- Tracks absenteeism and follow up on leave booking and application of consequence where applicable.
- Management is responsible to maintain belief in the goal and ensure adequate departmental staff are present each day to deliver the production plans.
- Track and control Overtime to budget levels
- Ensure departmental employees are appropriately trained to support business activities.
QMS / CAPAs / SOPs
- Standard Operating Procedures to be in place and functional for each department.
- Corrective and Preventative Actions - Events that deviate from procedures or instructions must immediately be reported and investigated. Quality - Deviations and NCRs
- Ensure that confirmed non-compliances result in a deviation investigation. - Records of events, follow-up actions and investigations are maintained. - Ensure that all RCAs are done for each deviation/NCR raised as well as customer complaint received.
Requirements:
- Matric essential
- Engineering/Operations Degree/Diploma
- Minimum of 5 years’ Managerial experience in pharmaceutical industry in similar role
- Attention to detail
- Result Orientated and driven
Should you not receive a response within 10 working days, please consider your application as unsuccessful