Manufacturing technology manager job description

**Summary of the Position**

1. This is a non-supervisory position and is an individual contributor role

2. This a strategic level position in order to expand competencies and capabilities in medical products manufacturing

3. The incumbent will be responsible for providing technical assistance and oversight to manufacturers and regulators to achieve the objectives of increasing the supply of quality-assured essential medical products

4. The incumbent will interface with internal USP departments as well as manufacturers of medical products and regulators

**Roles and Responsibilities**

+ Provide technical assistance to manufacturers in GMP, technology transfer, and dossier development and submission through audits, trainings, and deployment of tools and approaches to ensure adoption of international quality standards.

+ Supports the work and efforts of the Lead Pharmaceutical Product Supplies to develop technical documents, tools on localizing manufacturing of medical products in LMIC

+ Collaborate with PQM+ to provide technical assistance and oversight to manufacturers and regulators to achieve the objectives of increasing the supply of quality-assured essential medical products.

+ Provides oversight for local CMC staff, local partners and consultants involved in delivery of manufacturing support

+ Identify CMC risks and support the development of mitigations and contingency plans.

+ Conduct audits to assess compliance with international standards from WHO Prequalification process and support manufacturers to develop strategies and tools to address deviations and non-compliance identified.

+ Actively contribute to the engagement of the private sector stakeholders to facilitate public-private collaboration to support local manufacturing of quality pharmaceuticals and medical products

+ Work closely with teams to support development and deployment of strategies

+ Review and provide timely inputs into key project deliverables including technical and donor reports

+ Keep abreast of the latest manufacturing trends and regulation requirements

+ Recognized leader actively advancing and deploying new technologies and trends in manufacturing

+ Represents USP in international forums on manufacturing

**Basic Qualifications**

+ Minimum of 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing

+ Subject matter expert in manufacturing processes, comparability/feasibility studies, stability studies, analytical development, and regulatory filings

+ Thorough understanding of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls and Good Manufacturing Practices for medicines, packaging, and other relevant areas

+ Knowledge of regulatory requirements related to the development and manufacture of medicines in all phases of clinical development

+ Direct experience with regulatory authority registration processes

+ BS, MS, or Ph.D. degree in, pharmaceutical science, chemistry, engineering, or science related field of study required

+ Strong written (especially technical writing) and oral communication skills

+ Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Experience in at least one of the following health areas: HIV/ AIDS, malaria, TB, NTDs, AMR, MNCH

+ Experience with including water systems, sterility, HVAC, contamination, analytical chemistry, cleaning procedures, validation, formulations, and other relevant areas

+ Understanding of global dynamics impacting the supply of quality-assured pharmaceuticals and medical products

+ Direct experience with and understanding of WHO pre-qualification and/or other regulatory authority registration processes

USP provides you with the benefits you need to protect yourself and your family today and tomorrow. From company-paid time off, comprehensive healthcare options to retirement savings, you can have peace of mind that your personal and financial wellbeing are protected.

**The following COVID-19 provisions will apply to selected candidate(s) hired:**

**As a condition of employment with United States Pharmacopeial Convention's (USP) duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is free of known hazards, all employees and contingent staff hired after July 1st, 2021 are required to be fully vaccinated unless a reasonable accommodation is approved. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.**

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

**Job Category** Technical Programs

**Job Type** Full-Time

Our Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) industry practice is powered by one of the world's largest groups of specialists, alliances with more than 100 global companies, and services shaping the most recognized TMT brands-and helping those brands navigate and thrive in the digital world.
Technology Sector

Fueled by emerging technologies and trends such as AI, anything-as-a-service (XaaS), cloud, and edge computing, the technology industry continues to define our thriving future. We serve companies across multiple sub-sectors including software, computer hardware, networking equipment, semiconductor and IT services.

The Team

Supply Chain & Network Operations (SCNO)

The Supply Chain & Network Operations Offering helps clients transform their value chains into a competitive edge. Professionals drive efficiency, improve flexibility, and increase responsiveness by furnishing proactive insights and enhancing decision-making. Teams advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions by providing operational know-how, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry-specific hybrid solutions. Teams also optimize operations, product, and material flows, create greater synergy for the supply network, and add value through M&A events.

Deloitte's SCNO offering helps companies build lasting competitive advantage at every level of their operations, including developing supply chain strategy, supply chain planning, sourcing & procurement, manufacturing operations and logistics & distribution.

We work with clients to solve their most complex and strategic operational challenges. Our team spans the supply chain from procurement to manufacturing and all through connecting the supply to the customer. In today's world we can't do that without working together across the supply chain and using data and analytics to get our clients insights in real time, all the time. Many of our clients are trying to keep up with companies based solely on an interconnected supply chain; we modernize their supply chains using artificial intelligence, machine learning and connected products resulting in a competitive asset for the entire organization.

Work You'll Do

Industry-leading clients. An award-winning culture. Top notch connections. Big opportunities. At Deloitte, you'll work with the best in the business to solve the toughest problems in business. From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

As a Manager, you will lead and deliver small or components of large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.

Manager level responsibilities include:

+ Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues

+ Determine client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches

+ Evaluate and validate analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement

+ You will be expected to implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

+ Managers participate in business development activities.

Qualifications

Required:

+ 6 plus years of relevant consulting experience in a professional services environment, with a large or boutique consulting firm, or serving as an internal consultant within industry.

+ 6 plus years of experience serving clients in the Technology sector including software, computer hardware, networking equipment, semiconductor and IT services. Industry experience is a must for this position and resources with a SEMICONDUCTOR background will be a plus.

+ Consulting experience in technology implementation and operations improvement.

+ Experience in Digital manufacturing technologies including, but not limited to IT/OT (including cybersecurity/Software Development/Solution Architecture/Manufacturing execution systems/Historians/Enterprise asset management/Digital Thread /Automation.

+ Other required skills include, but not limited to, Operations improvement, Lean / Six Sigma, Material and inventory cost reduction, Footprint optimization, Data analysis and visualization, and Change management.

+ Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

+ Immigration: Limited sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

+ Proven experience in business development and/or proposal development in support of related specialty areas

+ Ability to work independently and manage multiple assignments

+ Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise mature judgement

+ Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity and apply problem-solving skills

+ Demonstrated ability to employ research and analytical thinking

+ Demonstrated capabilities in teamwork and leadership, including the desire and eagerness to mentor and assist in the professional development of junior staff members

+ Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word)

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

Chemours is seeking a Manufacturing Technology Senior Manager to join our team! This position will be part of the Technology Leadership Team for Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS), which focuses on the production of several different refrigerant gases and specialty fluids, and will report directly to the Sr. Director, Global Technology for Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS). This role will work out of our world-class innovation center, The Chemours Discovery Hub, in Newark, DE.

The Manufacturing Technology Senior Manager provides strategic leadership and guidance to manufacturing technical resources including Chemical Process Engineers, Mechanical and E&I Engineers. This role collaborates with key stakeholders across the business to deliver the technology and process capability needed to operate, maintain, and improve the manufacturing operations: with R&D and Manufacturing Teams to define process technology strategy and programs of significance to the business; with Operations Leadership to define goals (safety, asset productivity and quality) and budget forecasts; and with Site and Unit MT managers to develop and apply resources to meet these objectives. This role is responsible for implementing corporate best practices, developing technical resources and the building of the capabilities needed to support the safe and efficient operation of our plants.
The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

+ Provide guidance to MT managers in all unit and/or plants in the TSS business to deliver the technology and process capability needed to operate, maintain, and improve the manufacturing operations

+ Partner with Plant Managers to define goals (safety, asset productivity and quality) and lead technical resources to meet those objectives

+ Ensure adequate PSM processes and mechanisms are in place for Technology in all manufacturing sites to achieve the EHS goals for the business

+ Develop technical resources, build capabilities needed to support the safe and efficient operation of all plants and coordinate optimal leveraging of manufacturing technology resources

+ Coordinate the Energy & FOC network for the business to ensure the CRC business goals are met in alignment with corporate goals

+ Provide technical guidance to business initiatives to identify and enable contract manufacturing partners in support of the business growth strategy

+ Sponsor the technology teams in TSS, including MT, R&D, and leveraged engineering resources

+ Ensure appropriate staffing plans to advance critical corporate initiatives to achieve net neutrality by 2050

+ Ensure effective deployment of initiatives and staffing in the journey to achieve Industry 4.0 in collaboration with the Automation & Process Control corporate network (A&PC)

+ Travel to each of the 4 manufacturing sites at least once per year

To be qualified for this role, candidates must possess the following:

+ Bachelor's degree in an engineering or science discipline.

+ 10+ years of progressive leadership experience with demonstrated ability to build effective teams and drive business results

+ Experience in the chemical industry, including familiarity with product development & process technology

+ High degree of initiative and flexibility to facilitate moving projects/programs forward safely and in a timely manner

+ Ability to prioritize and manage short duration deadlines, emergency situations, and multiple priorities

+ Strong verbal and written communications skills with strong customer focus and ability to conceptualize customer needs based on customer input. Proven ability to effectively communicate through all levels of an organization

+ Demonstrated leadership capability - personnel development, leading teams, resolving conflict, sound judgment

+ Demonstrated ability to teach, coach, mentor develop others, and work in a team-based environment.

+ Strategic thinker with entrepreneurial mindset

+ Comfortable with ambiguity and courageous conversations to drive clarity and alignment

+ Strong networking and communication skills

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

+ Chemical or Mechanical engineer preferred

+ 5+ years of supervisory experience or program management experience.

+ Strong Process Safety Management (PSM) background

Benefits:

+ Competitive Compensation

+ Comprehensive Benefits Packages

+ 401(k) Match

+ Employee Stock Purchase Program

+ Tuition Reimbursement

+ Commuter Benefits

+ Learning and Development Opportunities

+ Strong Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives

+ Company-paid Volunteer Days

WE'RE CHEMOURS. A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHEMISTRY COMPANY.

We are driven by our purpose to create a more colorful, capable, and cleaner world through the power of chemistry.

Built upon a 200-year-old legacy and a world-class product portfolio, we bring everyday convenience to virtually everything people touch-in industries ranging from automotive, paints, and plastics to electronics, construction, energy, and telecommunications. We bring solutions that are better, safer, more reliable, and more sustainable, through the power of chemistry.

OUR APPROACH

We see our people as our biggest assets. Instead of focusing just on what our employees do each day, we look at how they do it. By taking a different approach to talent development, employee engagement, and culture, our goal is to empower employees to be their best selves-at Chemours and in life.

The "ours" in Chemours represents everyone who works here. We're thousands strong and always looking for the best and brightest to join our team.

OUR CULTURE

Five fundamental, foundational values form the substructure of our culture as a multinational

corporation. They are core beliefs that guide and frame both our behaviors and our aspirations.

Our values are in part what differentiate us from others, making us uniquely Chemours.

They are-Customer Centered, Refreshing Simplicity, Collective Entrepreneurship,

Safety Obsession, and Unshakable Integrity. At Chemours, our values are where everything begins.

We were honored to be named a "Great Place to Work-Certified Company" for 2019-2020 - our second consecutive year . We were also proud to receive a Gold Medallion Award from the U.S. Department of Labor's HIRE VETS program in 2019.

Chemours is an equal opportunity employer

Chemours is an E-Verify employer

Candidates must be able to perform all duties listed with or without accommodation

Immigration sponsorship (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status) is not currently available for this position

At Chemours, you will find sustainability in our vision, our business and your future. If you want to work on the leading edge of your field and have a desire to make a difference, join Chemours and discover what it means when we say "We Are Living Chemistry".