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Job Description

Job Title: Associate Director Fractionation Manufacturing

Location:  Social Circle, GA

About the role:

How you will contribute:

• Lead a cross-functional Manufacturing Unit team to drive team to meet overall goals and performance for the manufacturing area.

• Ensure products are provided to customers on time so that product quality, yield, operating costs and process efficiencies are met.

• Identify/prioritize/provide resources to assist the department director to meet the annual operating plan and budgetary commitments.

• Supervise the daily manufacturing operations across a department or multiple departments.

• Emphasize training and implement control systems on the shift or multiple shifts to eliminate product discrepancies.

• Commit to employee feedback and developmental processes.

• Interfaces with the other managers/customers to ensure our quality commitments are met. Also, to ensure consistency in personnel policy administration across the plant.

• Help prepare budgets and forecasts for areas of responsibility.

• Responsible for assuring compliances to all regulatory requirements – FDA, OSHA, OFCCP, EPA, etc.

• Adheres to all environmental, health and safety SOPs, equipment, policies and procedures, including any department specific requirements.

• Perform analytical review, recommend, and implement corrective action for any exception condition.

• Work with divisional personnel in support of projects within areas of responsibility.

• Support plant-wide strategic plan programs and activities.

Internal and External Contacts

• Interface with internal engineering/technical experts and external technical representatives.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Typically requires bachelor's degree, preferably in science, engineering or other related technical field. 8+ years of related experience with 3+ in a management role.

Key Skills, Abilities, and Competencies

• Ability to manage activities of departments through subordinates who exercise full supervision in terms of cost, methods, and employees.

• Ability to interpret and analyze statistical data and information and financial reports, understand, and resolve technical difficulties, manage multiple priorities in a manufacturing plant setting, be resourceful to a large manufacturing department.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs.

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

• Frequently or constantly to lift, carry push, pull, or move objects and repetitive motions.

• Subject to inside environmental conditions.

• Work is performed in an office setting.

• Position requires a combination of sedentary work and walking around the facility.

• Must be able to work multiple shifts, including weekends if needed/required.

• Non-Exempt roles must be able to work overtime when required.

• Some clean room and cool/hot storage conditions.

• May be required to work in a cold and/or wet environment.

• Maybe required to work in confined spaces.

• May be required to enter controlled environments requiring special gowning. 

• No makeup, no jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish, artificial fingernails maybe worn in the manufacturing environment.

• Travel for this position will include less than 5% locally usually for training purposes.

Important Considerations

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and other clean room garments daily. This may include safety shoes, safety glasses, aprons, face shields, lab coats, full body gowns, hair nets and gloves and hearing protection.

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.

• Work in a cold, wet environment.

• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.

• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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