Job Description

Why Patients Need You

Our breakthroughs would not make it to the hands of patients without our pharmaceutical manufacturing team. We rely on a team of dedicated and agile members, who understand the importance and impact of their role in Pfizer’s mission. Patients need colleagues like you who take pride in their work and always look to improve outcomes. You will help to ensure that patients and physicians have the medicines they need, when they need them.

What You Will Achieve

You will co-ordinate the manufacture of key API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) Intermediate processes and provide appropriate technical support to process teams to sustain and improve the processes. You will ensure flawless execution throughout each assigned campaign, focusing on the fundamentals of safety, quality, supply and cost. Cost Improvement Projects (CIP) development will also be a key part of your role. As a Team leader, you will be involved in leading work teams within a division. You will lead the people, technical and financial resources of the team. Thanks to your technical skills, you will coach your direct reports on day to day activities. You will be relied on to solve complex problems within your area of expertise. It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Lead, direct and coach the team, including developing and communicating objectives, setting priorities, development plans and conducting performance reviews.
• Ensure the supervision of all activities performed by changeover technicians during non-office hours.
• Ensure that the shop floor is in a constant state of safety and regulatory compliance and inspection ready.
• Ensure effective training of all the operations colleagues and compliance to SOPs and OJT.
• Ensure all Process Technicians perform their task in compliance to Environmental Health & Safety, cGMPs, and all relevant plant policies and procedures.
• Assign operation task according to Manufacturing Standard Work (MSW) and Operation Standard Work(OSW) and ensure compliance.
• Direct Process Technicians to perform operation task, pre-campaign start up, change over cleaning to meet production plan.
• Review MSW and OSW for any delay and recommend or assign resources to carry out the improvement.
• Liaise with other departments (QO, Engineering, etc.) for support to ensure efficient operations.
• Serve as the Site Incident Commander in the absence of Operations Manager.
• Investigate all processing deviations related to alarms, operational issues and take immediate and preventive actions
• Ensure the team investigate any near miss incident or process deviation related to EHS and Quality.
• Direct Process Technician to perform cleaning of process equipment and perform check to confirmed permit to work are issue in a safe condition to carry out maintenance work.
• Implement all relevant human resource policies and procedures in a fair & consistent manner.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Diploma in a technical discipline or GCE ‘O/A’ levels
• Minimum 10 years’ relevant experience (supervisory experience preferred) in the pharmaceutical, chemical or petrochemical industry
• Demonstrated ability to deliver improvements to site performance with the use of Lean and Six Sigma tools