Product Supply Engineering & Offline Manager

Job description

About Waterford

For more than 20 years, our Waterford team has continued to grow and diversify to serve patients around the world. Today, a team of almost 800 work together at a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical and medical device campus. Recognised through multiple local and national awards, Sanofi Waterford offers flexible working and access to a world of opportunities to grow your career at one location. As well as attractive benefits, the team enjoy access to an onsite gym and medical centre that underpin a strong commitment to health and wellbeing.

About the job

Reporting directly to the Head of Product Supply, as a leader for Sanofi, you will play an integral role within the Product Supply Unit management team, ensuring reliable supply of syringe and Vial products to our patients globally. The Product Supply APU consists of Device Inspection, assembly, label & pack and Vial inspection, label & pack.

Main responsibilities:

· Provide leadership to the applicable Engineering and maintenance teams.

· Builds team structures and problem-solving process to ensure Engineering capability in problem resolution in support of manufacturing operational targets.

· Provide leadership for on-going continuous improvement projects across manufacturing assets.

· Support the engineering components of NPI activity in transferring new products to site.

· Maintain and strengthen relationships with department team leaders and team members and ensure a strong emphasis on the development of these resources.

· Encourage team member & team innovation with a strong emphasis on team member personal responsibility.

· Manage department spending and invest in opportunities to improve spend performance.

· Support operational performance through participation on the site’s operational value stream leadership teams.

· Ensure cGMP compliance is paramount in all department maintenance activities and systems and ensure area regulatory compliance, audit readiness and post-audit finding implementation.

· Work on continuous improvement projects

· Play an active leadership role in Health, Safety and Environmental compliance at all times. Actively support and promote HSE initiatives that target HSE compliance.

· Provide strong contribution to site Engineering leader forums and projects to ensure consistency of approach across site.

· Work closely with Engineering Projects to support the delivery of quality and timely capital projects across the site. Identify area capital projects and ensure timely implementation.

· Provide strong management and control of equipment vendors and maintenance contractors.

· Manage and accurately forecast function cost centre spend.

· Provide leadership to the applicable Off-line Team including Deviation management, Continuous Improvement and delivery of capital projects.

About you

· Degree in Third level qualification or equivalent

· Minimum 3 years’ experience as an Engineering and Maintenance Management role (preferably Inspection/Packaging)

· 8 - 10 years’ experience of pharmaceutical manufacturing environment

· Technical knowledge of relevant manufacturing technology

· Detailed knowledge of cGMP

· Excellent interpersonal skills – active listener

· Good problem solving and analytical skills.

· Experienced in production equipment project and program delivery.

· Effective facilitator

· Influences site KPI’s

· Full understanding of Health &Safety and legal requirements for the safe operation of his team

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.