Packaging Supervisor
TriRx Shawnee LLC
Summary
Oversees department specific operations to ensure quality and safety standards are met and the operations are efficient and organized. Maintains facilities in highest level of compliance and cleanliness and ensures operating procedures are executed in accordance with all regulations. Provides direct supervision and coaching to front line employees and promotes open and collaborative work environment. Provides daily expectations to employees and ensures all necessary resources are available for employees to perform at highest safety and quality levels. Perform other duties as assigned.
Job description
Scope of Authority
Provides comprehensive formal and informal leadership to promote a positive work environment and communicates overall business expectations to the plant working groups.
Key Accountabilities
- Floor Operations (60%): Oversees department specific operations to ensure quality and safety standards are met and the operations are efficient and organized
- Non-Conforming Events (10%): Reports non-conforming events immediately and works through the required resolution
- Process Improvement (30%): Promotes a collaborative work environment and is always finding and implementing process improvements
- Compliance (continuous): Maintains facilities in highest level of compliance and cleanliness and ensures operating procedures are executed in accordance with all regulations
- Safety (continuous): Ensure all practices meet or exceed safety standards
Qualifications
Education & Experience: Associate's degree in related discipline or technical certificate preferred, or minimum three years' related supervisory or lead role experience. Five years' manufacturing experience in pharmaceutical, chemical, food, or other highly regulated environment (desired).
Knowledge: Thorough understanding of cGMP regulations and requirements and ability to translate to operational details and communicate to work staff.
Skills & Abilities: Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills, including interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to coach and mentor personnel to consistently high standards. Effective oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated problem solving skills in identifying and resolving issues. Ability to execute tactical plans and maintain established timelines and budgets. Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with primary support functions.
Physical Requirements: Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision. Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
2nd Shift Monday - Thursday 3:00pm - 1:30am. Mandatory Fridays as needed.
Requirements
- Associate's degree in related discipline or technical certificate preferred, or minimum three years' related supervisory or lead role experience
- Five years' manufacturing experience in pharmaceutical, chemical, food, or other highly regulated environment (desired)
- Thorough understanding of cGMP regulations and requirements and ability to translate to operational details and communicate to work staff
- Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills, including interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to coach and mentor personnel to consistently high standards
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated problem solving skills in identifying and resolving issues
- Ability to execute tactical plans and maintain established timelines and budgets
- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with primary support functions
Company overview
TriRx Pharmaceutical Services, LLC is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in comprehensive pharmaceutical solutions for both animal health and human pharmaceutical industries. Founded in 2019 by industry veterans, the company operates a network of state-of-the-art facilities across the United States and Europe, including locations in Norwalk, Connecticut; Huntsville, Alabama; Segré, France; Shawnee, Kansas; and Liverpool, England. TriRx provides integrated development, manufacturing, and supply services from clinical to commercial scale for both sterile and non-sterile pharmaceutical drug products. Their expertise spans a wide range of services including biologics, biotech API, solid dose formulations, analytical testing, solutions, suspensions, colloidal dispersions, liquids, creams, ointments, fill/finish operations, and packaging. The company maintains strict adherence to regulatory standards required by the FDA, EMA, and other global health authorities, ensuring high-quality manufacturing processes. As a privately owned CDMO, TriRx distinguishes itself by treating client products as its own, offering clients total access to people and processes while prioritizing client success over proprietary interests.