Assistant Manager - Production Pharma

Assistant Manager, Production - Pharmaceuticals

Graduate / Post Graduate in Pharmacy with 8 to 10 years of experience in Pharmaceutical Production.

• Strong leadership
• Production Techniques/Troubleshooting
• Communication & Time management & team management skills.
• Reporting
• Inter-personal skills and manpower management
• Coordination within the team and cross-functional departments
• Knowledge of SAP and serialization

Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Production
• Monitor departmental priorities, including productivity, yield, and downtime, and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Ensuring and maintaining the production activity, quality, safety, and regulatory compliance in production.
• Managing the daily operations of the area, ensuring efficient and timely production of the products.
• Ensure all manufacturing processes comply with cGMP and other global regulatory standards.
• Ensuring and achieving daily/shift-wise output of respective production areas by adhering to regulatory, GMP, and HSE guidelines, with proper utilization of resources and optimum cycle time.
• Ensuring and performing the production activities to achieve the production plan.
• Ensuring and performing all the SAP-related activities as and when needed based on respective unit operations.
• Ensuring and performing all the serialization activities as and when needed based on respective unit operations.
• Monitoring and ensuring execution of department validation as well as qualification activities in assigned timelines in assigned production areas.
• Ensure efficient utilization of plant resources, including labor, materials, and equipment.
• Compliance
• Ensuring audit readiness in the production areas.
• Implementing and ensuring compliance to GMP, HSE and ISO guidelines/standards in assigned production areas.
• Ensuring and maintaining GMP documentation for the process as well area documents in assigned production areas.
• Ensuring and maintaining documentation for the process validation and qualification in assigned production areas as and when needed.
• Ensuring GMP as well as HSE training to the staff of the assigned areas.
• Performing internal quality audit as a “Qualified Internal Auditor” during internal Quality Audit abiding the internal quality audit schedule.

• Coordination

Coordinating with…

• Shop floor for day-to-day activities on the shop floor in production areas.
• Engineering department for preventive and breakdown maintenance, modifications, etc.
• Quality department for all quality-related activities related to assigned production areas.
• Warehouse department for any materials supply.
• Procurement department for procuring and controlling auxiliaries.
• Controlling department for costing.
• P & O department.
• Supply chain for production schedule

• Monitoring and Improvement :
• Monitoring and improving the yield of assigned products.
• Monitoring and improving the overall equipment efficiency of respective areas.
• Ensuring and maintaining the standard labour hours of the respective product.
• Monitoring and improving the on-time in full delivery.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and cost reduction in the manufacturing of products.

• Training
• Ensuring and imparting training to the operative staff on GMP, HSE, ISO requirements, operation of machines, and process improvement as and when required.
• Ensuring ZENTIVA group mandatory training as per the defined timeline.Others

• The Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize processes, manage resources, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the production team, including production supervisors, operators, and support staff.
• Conduct performance evaluations, identify training needs, and provide coaching and development opportunities for team members.
• Investigate and resolve any safety incidents, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Develop and manage the plant’s budget, including monitoring costs and implementing cost-saving measures. Preparation of departmental OPEX and CAPEX budget.
• Participation in site LRP discussion and implementation.
• Oversee inventory management to ensure the availability of raw materials and the timely delivery of finished products.
• Manage plant resources, including labor, materials, and equipment, to meet production goals.
• Provide regular reports to senior management on plant performance, including production output, quality metrics, and compliance status.
• Implement continual process improvement methodologies to drive operational excellence.
• Develop and manage the plant’s budget, including monitoring costs and implementing cost-saving measures.
• Carrying out any other assignments or projects like qualifications and validations as per the instruction of the dept. Head to meet the organizational priorities.
• Identifying and correcting unsafe conditions or behaviors and promptly reporting other potentially hazardous situations.
• Maintaining plant assets in good condition and making optimum use of all resources.