Manufacturing Manager

Career Category Manufacturing Job Description Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer.  As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. Manufacturing Manager What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The Manufacturing Day Manager at Amgen Dun Laoghaire is a key member of the PM3 Manufacturing Extended Leadership Team ensuring the PM3 plant operates safely, compliantly and effectively.   The Day Manager plays a key role in supporting the wider manufacturing team to help deliver on the production plan whilst driving a culture of continuous improvement.  The role maintains GMP and training standards, leads deviation investigations and CAPAs, supports regulatory audits, supports shift teams, and resolves or escalates issues that could affect delivery. It also recruits, develops and manages team members, building an inclusive, accountable and high-performing team.  Production Management    Ensuring Safety, Quality and Compliance   Accountable for the safe operation of the area ensuring all safety policies are adhered to and that any incidents are reported and investigated in a timely manner. Promotes a positive safety culture within manufacturing.  Works in a collaborative manner with other functions to ensure robust deviation investigations and assumes ownership of subsequent CAPAs to prevent reoccurrence.  Contribute to and assist with Corporate, FDA, HPRA and other regulatory agencies during GMP audits and is responsible for corresponding follow up actions.  Ensure the manufacturing area adheres to all relevant regulatory guidance documents.  Accountable for ensuring that all staff maintains necessary training qualifications and operate in compliance with SOP’s and to GMP standards.  Accountable for Delivering Results by:    Participate in the goal setting process for the department and manage complex goals aimed at creating competitive advantage.  Supporting the shift teams by providing on the floor holiday/ absence cover, problem solving and project support.  Supporting the creation of short, medium- and long-term schedules and being accountable for the on time in full execution against the plan.  Ensuring that appropriate staff levels and trained resources are available at all times to meet the plan.  Communicating issues and promptly escalating issues that may jeopardise manufacturing deliverables.  Using project management principles to lead complex cross functional initiatives.  Supporting cross functional engineering, Process development and maintenance teams to ensure right first time execution during project and commercial operation.  Recognising positive performance and sharing best practices with other shifts, departments and sites within the network.  Leveraging Gemba and PPoF walks to look for opportunities for improvement and recognise positive contributions.  Leveraging error management and human performance tools to drive improvements in RFT performance and reduce human performance related deviations.  Leading and sponsoring lean initiatives such as Kaizen events, A3