Line Facilitator

8722-DePuy International Limited Legal Entity; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Line Facilitator to lead resources on the production line in Blackpool, UK. This role focuses on maintaining GMP compliance, safety, and quality while driving continuous improvement in cycle times and throughput.

You will collaborate with planning, stores, maintenance and quality teams to maximize efficiency and uphold environmental, health and safety standards in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum GCSE level (or equivalent) numeracy and literacy
• Hands-on experience working under GMP conditions to ensure compliant, traceable, and hygienic production processes in a regulatory environment
• Develop working relationships with planning, stores, maintenance and quality control teams to maximize safety, quality, and efficiency
• Understands cycle time, monitors and escalates to Value Stream Leader when cycle times deviate
• Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
• Responsible for ensuring subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition

Responsibilities

• Lead resources to add value to production operations while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, quality and business systems
• Drive operational excellence in the areas under their control
• Support adherence to GMP and housekeeping within the work cell
• Ensure equipment is operated per procedures and SOPs
• Raise non-conformances (NCs) and lead investigations
• Escalate health and safety issues to the Value Stream Leader and relevant bodies

Skills

GMP experience

Cycle time monitoring

Safety compliance

Cross-functional communication

Problem solving

Education

GCSE level

Job description

About Johnson & Johnson

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com. As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Description

About Orthopaedics Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

We are searching for the best talent for a Line Facilitator role to be in Blackpool, United Kingdom!

Purpose

As a Line Facilitator, you will lead resources to add value to production operations whilst ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, quality and business systems. The role will be the catalyst for improvement in the performance of the production lines and drive operational excellence in the areas under their control.

Compliance

• Be accountable for all aspects of GMP and Housekeeping within the work cell
• Ensure equipment is operated as per procedures and JBS/JES
• Be responsible for raising Non-conformances (NC’s)
• Raise awareness of all open NCs within work cell
• Lead investigation of NCs, when initiated on shift and within Cell
• Challenge all act of non-compliance (H&S, WI, SOPs)
• Be responsible for zero errors on batch records/DHS/WO/Pressure Sheets etc.

Health and Safety

• Be responsible for ensuring the correct PPE is worn
• Raise awareness of EH&S
• Escalate H&S issues to Value Stream Leader and relevant bodies
• Ensure conformance with all H&S regulations within the workplace

Requirements & Skills

• Minimum GCSE level (or equivalent) numeracy and literacy
• Hands-on experience working under Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) conditions to ensure compliant, traceable, and hygienic production processes in a regulatory environment
• Develop working relationships and ensure proactive communication with planning, stores, maintenance and quality control teams to maximize the areas safety, quality, and efficiency
• Understands cycle time, monitors and escalates to Value Stream Leader (VSL) when cycle times deviate
• Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
• Responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable

Preferred Skills

• Accountability
• Agile Manufacturing
• Analytical Reasoning
• Brand Research
• Detail-Oriented
• Equipment Maintenance
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Materials Handling
• Package and Labeling Regulations
• Package Equipment
• Plant Operations
• Process Oriented
• Product Packaging Design
• Professional Ethics
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Report Writing
• Safety-Oriented
• Validation Testing