Job Summary

The Packaging Supervisor is responsible for the day-today packaging operation. Supervises, motivates, and supports the staff daily, applying a team approach and maintaining open communication. The Supervisor plans, schedules, strategizes, and oversees all packaging activities while continually building quality and compliance.

Principle Accountabilities

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

· Executing the packaging planning based on the marketing requirement, manpower, and equipment capacity. Ensure product quality meets the specification all the time.

· Supervising a team in packaging, training them on SOPs, cGMP, investigations, CAPAs, protocols and handling quality issues with respect to packaging department.

· Maintaining a GMP compliant work area. Ensuring the production of high-quality products while meeting FDA, OSHA, and company requirements for manufacturing department

· Involves the most effective and efficient use of available resources to produce products that meet or exceed product requirements for cost, quality, and delivery.

· Handling of packaging related business tool (ERP) and ensuring the appropriate date entries.

· Responsible for execution of packaging exhibit, characterization, and validation batches. Responsible for execution of cleaning verification/validation of packaging equipment.

· Monitoring of packaging related change controls, deviations, investigations, and implementing the CAPAs for completion on time and implementation of action items. Ensure packaging records, protocols and reports review and approving as necessary.

· Responsible for enforcing all safety and SOP procedures

· Report to departmental head about ongoing measurement identifying progress, issues and corrective action status, and planned projects.

· Performs other duties assigned.

OTHER or ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 

· Perform other job-related duties as assigned at the discretion of management.

Requirements

  Experience & Education

· BS in Science, pharmacy, or related degree

· 8-10 years of packaging supervisor experience within the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry

· Must have bottling experience within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

  Knowledge & Skills 

· Solid writing skills with strong leadership qualities.

· Strong organizational and planning skills.

· Strong analytical skills.

· Knowledge of computer programs.

· Time management and planning skills.

· Strong ability to lead and motivate people and deal appropriately with and difficult situations, as well as a good awareness of current employment relation laws.