Manager, Shop Floor QA (Day Shift)

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The Manager, Shop Floor QA is responsible for 24x7 Quality collaboration and oversight of site operations, including but not limited to Manufacturing, Quality Control laboratories, and Warehouse Operations.

This position will oversee and partner with operational areas, to ensure compliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb policies, standards, procedures, and Global cGMP. This position is a people manager position, leading a team of individual contributors in the Quality Assurance Shop Floor Organization.

Shifts Available:

B1, 6am – 6pm, rotating schedule including holidays and weekends, onsite

Responsibilities:

• Oversee performance of QA shop floor activities.
• Supervise Quality Assurance Shop Floor employees.
• Regularly spend time coaching and mentoring operators and QA personnel while on the manufacturing floor. Provide guidance and training on quality programs.
• Lead Quality on-the-floor oversight to Manufacturing/QC/Warehouse/ Packout operations. Proactively identify risks/critical issues and drive mitigations and escalate to management as needed.
• Develop, review and/or approve temporary and non-routine procedure for event response.
• Periodically observe operations. Proactively identify risks and drive improvements.
• Provide quality oversight to non-routine maintenance work. Review and approve return to service plans.
• Coordinate and lead area walkthroughs to identify quality issues. Negotiate remediations and drive alignment of implementation plans.
• Ensure manufacturing compliance with applicable procedures and batch records.
• Perform review of operational documentation including manufacturing batch records.
• Must have strong authorship and ability to critically review investigations, interpret results and generate technical conclusions consistent with Quality risk management principles.
• Must be skilled in planning and organizing, decision-making, and building relationships.
• Knowledge of quality processes, including material disposition, change control, product complaints, deviations, investigations, and CAPA management.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Previous Supervisory / Managerial Experience is preferred.
• Must be action-oriented and skilled in decision-making, building relationships, problem solving, conflict management, planning and organizing, resource allocation, coaching others, and analytical thinking.
• Understands continuous improvement and improves efficiency and productivity within the group or project.
• Builds relationships internally within and with cross functional teams.
• Must have sound knowledge and experience in FDA regulated cGMP warehousing, Quality, and compliance environments. Prefer to also have knowledge of GMP Manufacturing operations and processes.
• Directs quality initiatives that accomplish continuous improvement and enhance site quality system efficiencies.
• Routinely recognizes and resolves Quality issues; Informs management of proposed solutions. Seeks management guidance on complex issues.
• Able to recognize conflict and notify management with proposed recommendations for resolution.
• Requires little direction to complete more complex tasks; completes routine tasks with little or no supervision.
• Able to provide directions to others within the team.
• Confident in making decisions for non-routine issues.
• Develops and revises procedures.
• Intermediate to advanced ability to interpret results and situations and articulate recommendations for resolution.
• Able to prepare written communications and communicate problems to management with clarity and accuracy.
• Able to effectively multi-task

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM field preferred. High school diploma / Associates degree with equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered.
• 6+ years of relevant cGMP experience, preferably with 2+ year of QA shop floor experience. Experience in FDA/EMA regulations in biopharmaceuticals or cell therapy manufacturing is preferred. Project management experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with quality management systems
• Demonstrated experience with electronic system and databases such as
• Manufacturing Execution systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $100,480 - $121,800, plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).

The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed.

Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

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