ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manages all Production activities, under the direction of the Operations Manager, ensuring compliance with established and approved policies and procedures, and FDA, cGMP, and QSR/ISO regulations.Supervises day-to-day production activities.Provides leadership for employees through effective communication, coaching, training, and development.Provides technical guidance for production and facilities leadership teams and operators, including troubleshooting.Provides daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly key performance metric data.Coordinates the successful implementation of lean manufacturing throughout operations.Responsible for implementing an employee involvement work environment to include team meetings, decision-making, consensus building, process improvement, achievement of team goals, collaboration, good communication practices, and conflict resolution techniques.Leads by example by promoting good manufacturing principles.Ensures appropriate staffing levels based on production needs.  Creates and maintains weekly production schedule.Effectively uses labor, materials, and support services to meet quality standards, production schedules and profit plans.Ensures compliance with company standards for quality, cost control, waste reduction, OSHA, safety, and complete and on-time delivery at the lowest possible cost.Coordinates with other departments to assure schedules are met.Ensure compliance with cGMP, QSR/ISO, FDA, OSHA, and all other regulatory requirements in accordance with company policy.Regular attendance.Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum 5 years’ manufacturing management experience.Process manufacturing experience preferred.Minimum 3 years’ experience with lean manufacturing/Six Sigma.Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, or related field.Experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.Experience with materials and inventory management, production scheduling, and preventive maintenance.A demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Excellent project management skills.Proficient with computer systems and the ability to use programs including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, modeling, graphics and presentation software.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Frequently required to sit, talk, or hear.Frequently required to stand and walk.Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 45 pounds.Vision ability including close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Pay Range: $89,000 - $99,000

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable those individuals who are disabled as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act to perform the essential functions of this job.

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

All job requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State Laws.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an “at-will” basis.

Silgan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, or the presence of a disability, which would not prevent the performance of essential job duties with, or without reasonable accommodation of any other protective status.

Silgan is a drug-free workplace.