Packaging Manager

Job Description

**Position Title: Packaging Supervisor/Manager**

**Location: Chantilly, VA Department: Site Operations**

**Type-Full-time/ Onsite**

**Shift- 1st, 2nd & 3rd available**

**Visa Status-US Citizen/Green Card Holders/H1B transfer**

**Job Summary**

The Packaging Supervisor/Manager 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.

**Must have bottling packaging line experience within a pharmaceutical/nutraceutical/food manufacturing environment. ***

**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

**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.

**Experience & Education**

– BS in Science, pharmacy or related degree
– 8-10 years of packaging supervisor experience within the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
– Must have bottle packaging line experience within a pharmaceutical/nutraceutical manufacturing environment. Pharmaceutical packaging highly preferred

**Physical Requirements/Working Environment**

– While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard.
– Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
– Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period.
– Light to moderate lifting up to 10-15 lbs. is required.
– Ability to work in a confined area.

**Benefits:**

***Relocation support**

***Temporary accommodation,**

***Full-time benefits (healthcare, 401k matching, PTO)**