Production Shift Lead, Filling

CSL; Broadmeadows; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CSL Behring is seeking a Shift Lead for our Turner Filling manufacturing team in Australia. You will lead a cross-functional production unit, drive safety, quality, and efficiency, and ensure GMP-compliant operations around the clock.

You will coach frontline staff, coordinate daily filling activities, and champion continuous improvement initiatives while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across functions and shifts.

Qualifications

• Experience leading pharmaceutical/biotech/regulated manufacturing teams.
• Strong knowledge of GMP requirements and quality systems.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a 24/7 production environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing production team to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and productivity objectives.
• Coordinate day-to-day filling operations to ensure production schedules and business priorities are met.
• Champion GMP compliance and ensure all manufacturing activities are executed in accordance with approved procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor operational performance, identify improvement opportunities, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support investigation of deviations, quality events, and operational issues, ensuring timely resolution and implementation of corrective actions.
• Foster a positive team culture through coaching, performance management, training, and employee development.

Skills

Leadership

GMP knowledge

Regulated manufacturing

Frontline leadership

Problem solving

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Shift Lead to join our Manufacturing team (Turner Filling). In this role, you will provide support to the frontline leaders for the filling operations area, ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient execution of manufacturing activities while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, quality, and employee engagement.

You will lead a team of manufacturing professionals, drive operational excellence, and ensure production targets are achieved in accordance with GMP, safety, and quality standards.

This role is part of a facility which operates 24/7 and therefore you must be available to work on shift patterns including afternoon / night shifts and weekends/public holidays.

Multiple positions available.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing production team to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and productivity objectives.
• Coordinate day-to-day filling operations to ensure production schedules and business priorities are met.
• Champion GMP compliance and ensure all manufacturing activities are executed in accordance with approved procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor operational performance, identify improvement opportunities, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support investigation of deviations, quality events, and operational issues, ensuring timely resolution and implementation of corrective actions.
• Foster a positive team culture through coaching, performance management, training, and employee development.

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrated leadership experience within a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, food, or other highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of GMP requirements and quality systems.
• Experience leading and developing frontline manufacturing or operations teams.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and continuous improvement capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple functions.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world's largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

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You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.