Manufacturing Excellence Supervisor
Takeda
- Woodlands, Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location: Woodlands, SingaporeAbout the role:
- The individual will provide leadership to the Manufacturing Excellence Cell Culture / Purification team, ensuring routine GMP manufacturing life cycle and day to day operational activities associated with the products and process equipment in the Takeda Singapore Plant, are executed in a timely fashion, including but not limited to Manufacturing Suite 1, Manufacturing Suite 2, and Manufacturing Support areas. In addition, the individual will provide lead key initiatives not limited to continuous improvement, validation and CAPEX activities.
- Prioritize and lead all manufacturing Improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrate competency and understand interactions / complexity of all areas of manufacturing expertise, for example, Upstream processing / Downstream processing / Equipment Preparation / Buffer Preparation
- Demonstrate understanding of various products and their respective processes.
- Act as subject matter expert during audits, explaining and walking through specific process operations or investigations, as applicable.
- Manage deviations closure under team’s ownership, including product impact assessments and implement CAPAs.
- Manage change controls under the team’s ownership, including impact assessments.
- Lead the transfer / implementation of new processes and commissioning & validation activities of new projects, as required.
- Lead complex investigations (e.g. use of statistical tools), as required.
- Able to interpret and manage process model to standard workload.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives of higher complexity, as required.
- Provide supervisory oversight of events impacting production schedule.
- Provide supervisory oversight of key issues, matrices and deliverables.
- Carry out work in a safe manner, notifying management of safety issues and risks.
- Meet and maintain training requirements on time.
- Provide technical training for area personnel, as required.
- Develop training material, as required.
- Mentor and train team members, identify gaps and staff improvement requirements.
- Ensure team knowledge and competency are maintained.
- Assume recognition and disciplinary responsibility for direct reports.
- Develop and maintain personal development plan.
- Participate in site or global strategic initiatives, as required.
- Provide feedback to peers to help staff development, as required.
- Provide annual performance self-assessment on development plan.
- Manage audit preparation under team’s ownership as well as documentation related to audit responses, Adverse event notification review and Annual Product Reviews, as required.
- Develop systems to monitor and analyze processing parameters for atypical trends and improvement opportunities.
- Provide supervisory oversight over product changeover activities.
- Acts as a delegate to the Head of Manufacturing Excellence.
- Responsibility to adhere to any applicable EHS requirements.
- Commitment to a fair and respectful relationship to others and behavior in accordance with Takeda’s Code of Conduct.
- Any other duties as assigned by supervisor.