Secondary Packaging Manager

Description:

Job Purpose:

Secondary Packaging’s main objective is to place primary packaged products into outer packaging that provides additional protection for distribution and retail. The secondary packaging process ensures the safe, compliant, and efficient transport of the pharmaceutical products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for keeping production lines running efficiently to meet production goals.
• Assists with additional work duties or responsibilities as evident or required.
• Assists Management team in Secondary Packaging with planning and coordinating all packaging operations. Oversees training and investigations.
• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.

Supplemental Functions:

• Assist with maintaining the NPS Secondary Packaging schedule based on sales need or production schedule.
• Assist coordination with production teams to forecast secondary packaging operation needs.
• Create WIPS packaging configuration for each lot on the secondary packaging schedule.
• Assist with ensuring all secondary packaging procedures when necessary.
• Assist packaging trainer in the development of new employee trainings.
• Present and explain new packaging / logistics strategies to Senior Manager or Director of Secondary Packaging
• Coordinate training, changeovers, line efficiencies, and scheduling
• Assist in setting packaging goals, analyzing, developing, determining and implementing policies, procedures, and programs.
• Assist with report findings and recommendations
• Assist performing administrative duties to include personnel roster, scheduling, and monitoring the production line.
• Other duties as necessary.

Requirements:

.Education/Experience:

• High school diploma required. Preferred Bachelor's Degree in operations management, business administration, or related fields; or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years manufacturing / production work experience
• Must be detail oriented and dependable with the ability to supervise employees.
• 1 year supervisory training preferred.