Plant Owner - Montrose, United Kingdom - GSK

GSK

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Montrose, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Site Name:
UK - Angus - Montrose

Posted Date:
Feb

Plant Owner

This role is part of the operational management team and will involve working closely with Technical, Quality and Engineering departments to plan, coordinate and execute plant cleaning and turnarounds as well as continuous plant and process improvement activities.

As Plant Owner you will be part of the Montrose operational leadership and will be working cross-functionally gaining the opportunity to develop relationships across the site.

It is a great position to develop your operational management and influencing skills for future growth.

This is a site-based position but there may be a small amount of remote working flexibility, when work permits, at management discretion.

Job Purpose
The operating unit exists to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and intermediates.

The Plant Owner role will provide a focus for building and process cleaning improvements and work on a dayshift pattern to drive standards in the plant, processes and footprint of the land.

The Plant Owner role is to ensure that all potential losses to plant availability, performance and quality are recognised and minimised such that the "in scope" manufacturing facilities operate at their design and optimum efficiency during process changeovers to meet cGMP, customer requirements and world class manufacturing standards.

In this role you will...

To deliver significant operational improvements which will improve safety, quality, cost of goods, compliance and ways of working, reduce waste and bureaucracy.
Be the Operations' nominee for specific projects within the manufacturing area, ensuring practical implementation of the solution with the Process Technicians, Shift Leader and Area Operations Leader buy in.
Produce Budget Requests, Project Initiations, Minor Project Initiations, which articulate the current issue via a situation, target and proposal methodology.
Drive and champion the Plant Modifications through the system for your area of responsibility.
Assist with trouble shooting, problem solving as necessary, including Root Cause Analysis and weigh up advantages and disadvantages in order to provide the best possible solution.
Reduce plant cleaning and product changeover times to the absolute minimum based on realistic resource constraints (Process Technicians, Engineers and Laboratories). For new changeovers they shall be optimized during the initial evaluation runs of the changeover and further improvements to reduce the internal time identified and implemented on subsequent runs.
Provide a plan (FRS) for each changeover that can be implemented every time. Lead FRS meeting at Level 2 meeting to ensure appropriate accountability across departments and escalate resource requirements. Complete an afteraction review (AAR) after each changeover, including a review of lost time, taking the learnings and adapting the plan ready for its next use.
Represent Operations department during Quality audits on cleaning validation and cleaning processes.
Represent Operations department during Quality audits on cleaning validation and cleaning processes.
Work with Area Operations Leader to produce a 3 year building and facility improvement plan and feed into CAPEX process each year in order to build a strong facility and standards each year.

_ Closing Date for Applications:

Monday 26th February 2024_:
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

_ Why you?_

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

Relevant level of experience/knowledge (process manufacturing, plant operation & process cleaning; GMP cleaning validation requirements)
Effective communication skills and ability to communicate and influence at most levels of management.
Understanding of Control of Major Accidents Hazards (COMAH) legislation issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

Experience within a pharmaceutical or chemical facilities management
NEBOSH Certification
Digital Data and Analytics mindset

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organization where people can thrive.

Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people.

While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can f