MSD Technical Operations Lead - Year Fixed Term Contract 

South Africa, Gauteng 

206402614

Job Description

Role Responsibilities:

• Primary focus includes responsibility for Technical Operations in our Manufacturing Division, shop floor automation, engineering and adherence to safety standards
• Promotes the behaviours and principles that drive continuous improvement of our Lean Enterprise.
• Ensures that objectives are achieved at the lowest cost consistent with our company, and local code requirements for employee and environmental safety and health with harmonious employee relations.
• Ensure compliance with the company’s global policies, procedures and guidelines, regulatory requirements and execute Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in the performance of day-to-day activities and all applicable job functions.
• Provide leadership, coaching, mentoring and training to the Engineering and Technology team as required.
• Deliver performance management and succession planning process for Technical Operations.
• Manage the introduction of new or transferred products to site, including assistance with specification, testing, qualification and operation of new capital packaging equipment, ensuring timely use, efficient performance, successful validation and optimal process capability.
• Successful transfer of packaging components.
• To investigate and follow up issues arising from packaging deviations, establishing assignable causes for atypical processing events and propose appropriate actions to minimize rework and improve process capability.
• Lead and develop strategies for process and cleaning validation activities on site, provide technical packaging assistance with the preparation of validation protocols and oversee in-process validation sampling.
• Strategically manage innovation and continuous improvement activities within the technical operations activities.
• Manage equipment qualification activities which includes installation, operation and performance qualification (IQ, OQ, PQ)
• Design, specification, procurement, installation, and operational qualification of new packaging tooling
• Manage activities linked with major quality investigations including Data collection and analysis of detailed investigation, root cause identification, and corrective action conclusion
• Manage site specific technology developments
• Responsible for reporting adverse experiences or events (AEs) , product quality complaints (PQCs) and other reportable information, customer feedback (CF), alleged counterfeiting, diversion and tampering (CDT) that you become aware of to the Designated Point of Contact (DPOC)

Qualifications Required:

• Validation Manager/Validation Engineer with minimum 10 years of experience in the Pharma industry
• Proven management and leadership in an engineering, validation, demonstrated package components and packaging process technical excellence
• Equipment reliability
• Component specification Changes/Change Control
• Capital Projects and equipment qualification
• Continuous improvement
• Demonstrated technical writing, component specification changes, handling of change controls, Investigations, CAPAs and Quality actions
• Thinking strategically and Innovatively

Engineering Degree or Science Qualification.

Current Contingent Workers apply

Project Temps (Fixed Term)

Not Applicable

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Job Posting End Date:08/08/2024

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