Manufacturing Supervisor

About This Role

Leading a team of Production Operators in a pharmaceutical manufacturing setting is the core of this role. The Manufacturing Supervisor oversees daily operations, ensures compliance with management systems, and contributes to the site management team at AbbVie North Dublin, a dynamic OSD site.

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
• Build 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