AddressPosted Date: Feb 27 2024
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Laboratory Operations Manager
As a Laboratory Operations Manager/Stage Manager, you are responsible to plan, measure, manage and improve the process stage to ensure the business metrics for safety, quality, efficiency, and supply are achieved. The Stage Manager role is a challenging but interesting one, where will be working in fast paced and dynamic environment. Driving production higher is a current high priority on site and therefore identifying CI opportunities and improved processes is an important part of this role.
In this role you will…
- Manage the Site Microbiology Team in the provision of Quality Control, Microbiological and Process Support Services across site.(add)
- Ensure the required ways of working for the operation are optimal, defined and understood such that the operational targets are met.
- Ensure changes proposed to plant and processes are suitable for and implemented into operations successfully. This will involve liaison with other groups especially technical, quality and engineering to ensure improvement activities, CAPA and routine operation actions are appropriate. This will include preparing capital investment proposals and some elements of project programme management.
- Be operations owner of the short-term plan, ensuring it is achievable and adhered to.
- Work with shift leaders, engineering, technical and quality to ensure equipment, process and compliance issues are addressed appropriately. This will include leading and driving investigations, root cause sessions and action completion.
- Have operational ownership for yield and material usage performance and improvements.
- Coach and develop others within Operations to improve their capabilities and performance.
- Drive continuous improvement across your stage
Closing Date for Applications: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Demonstrable technical competence, either via degree or significant process experience
- Understanding of compliance requirements
- Previous management/supervisory experience
- Site capital process and knowledge of PIP justification
- Experience working in front line operations environment
- Regulatory audit experience
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
- Competence in process tracking techniques – such as process explorer
- Knowledge of permit to work system/ Permit to work issuer trained
- Continuous Improvement (CI) training, use of root cause, process aligned management, other GSK Production System (GPS) tools
- Process safety training
- IOSH trained or equivalent
- Good level of financial understanding
- Change management experience
Why Us?
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
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