Job Description

Manager, Production; Manufacturing (Night Shift) in Albuquerque, NM

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives.

The Manager, Production; Manufacturing supports the timely manufacturing of parenteral products in an aseptic environment according to Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP). The Manager is responsible for the management of all manufacturing activities during a shift for a sterile filling business unit. Additionally, the manager ensures compliance with all relevant regulations and procedures, maintains current good documentation practices (cGDP) for all activities, and participates in training and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance production processes and efficiency. The manager may manage the following departments: Glass Wash, Aseptic Filling and Capping, and Lyophilization teams; Support Supervisor (Compounding and Equipment Preparation); Equipment Mechanic; Production Control Specialist; and Set-up Mechanic. All activities for a shift are overseen by this position.

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more!

Responsibilities

• Directly responsible for managing and coordinating all activities for assigned shift
• Responsible for compiling all shift information and line status data in an accurate and timely fashion and reporting that information to the support groups as well as the oncoming shift management team
• Responsible for ensuring and enforcing compliance with cGMPs, site-specific policies, and procedures
• Will serve as the representative on shift to all internal support groups and aid the customer service representative with external customers
• Responsible for maintaining and reporting the performance of current Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Responsible for the professional development and mentoring of direct reports
• Responsible for the succession planning and in-depth cross-functional training of all members of the shift
• Directly accountable for production schedule adherence and material consumption rates
• Responsible for all safety incidents and quality deviations that occur on shift and responsible for the thorough investigation and timely reporting of such
• Must become fluent in all functional areas of responsibility. Must share resources with other teams/departments as needed and when available
• Effective interpersonal relation skills, while maintaining the adaptability to achieve company goals. Verbally expresses ideas and facts in a clear, logical, concise, and accepted grammatical style
• Read/interpret SOPs to ensure compliance
• Maintain up to date trainings
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in Science, Business, Engineering or related field of study
• Minimum of seven (7) years of related work experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing or relevant industry
• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience in a leadership role

Other Qualifications

• Must pass a background check
• Must pass a drug screen
• May be required to pass Occupational Health Screening
• May be required to obtain and maintain media qualification
• May be required to wear a respirator

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Business, Engineering or related field of study with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing or relevant industry

Education, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.

All interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.

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