Compounding Supervisor, Weekday Nights

Apex-International; Chaska (MN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex International in Minnesota seeks a Compounder Supervisor to lead the mixing of raw ingredients and oversee compounding operations for OTC, personal care, and household products. You will supervise the compounding team, ensure safety, quality, and on-time production, and drive continuous improvements on the production floor.

You will manage SOPs and GMP compliance, maintain lean practices, 5-S, and daily metrics, and coordinate with pre-weigh.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising compounding operations in a manufacturing setting.
• Strong knowledge of GMP and SOP compliance.
• Ability to implement lean tools and 5-S on the production floor.
• Proven leadership and team development skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily production of customer orders to meet the schedule while achieving safety, quality, and cost objectives.
• Ensure batches are prioritized, and equipment is cleaned and ready for scheduled batches.
• Enforce all SOPs and GMPs and coordinate with Pre-weigh to attach procedures to batches.
• Maintain lean culture and daily improvement initiatives, monitor metrics, and drive improvements.

Skills

Supervisory leadership

Lean manufacturing

GMP & SOP compliance

Safety awareness

Job description

At Apex International, we pride ourselves on being a high-quality manufacturer of OTC, personal care, and household products. At Apex International we create collaborative partnerships with customers ranging from global Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurial start-ups.

We are currently seeking for a Compounder Supervisor to support our Chaska locations.

This position is responsible for contributing to the success of our clients by ensuring that batches are produced safely, on time, and profitably. It effectively manages the compounding team by supervising the mixing of raw ingredients to produce finished batches of high-quality over-the-counter, personal care, and household products, following complex company procedures, operating compounding tanks and relevant equipment, while maintaining safety, product quality, and meeting production goals.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Efficiently oversee the daily production of customer orders to ensure that production not only meets but exceeds the schedule, while simultaneously achieving safety, quality, and cost objectives.

• Ensures batches are prioritized to be compounded to satisfy the production schedule.
• Ensure equipment is cleaned and ready for scheduled batches.
• Investigate and follow up on any batch delays.
• Review the final batch and perform necessary kitting.
• Maintain an active presence on the floor to monitor, motivate and ensure success.
• Participate in safety initiatives.

2. Oversee compounding, transfer, cleaning and sanitizing processes.

• Enforce all compounding SOP's and GMP's are in compliance and accurate.
• Coordinate with Pre-weigh to ensure that appropriate procedures are attached to batches prior to compounding.
• Ensure hot room chemicals are in place and no expired chemicals / weighing errors.
• Follow up and investigate any delays in chemical receiving and/or pre-weigh.

3. Maintain compounding visual flow boards so that they are always up to date.

• Participate in the MDI (Managing Daily improvement) process.
• Support data collection to drive metric improvements.

4. Understand and maintain a culture of "lean action" within the department so that we live lean better than any organization.

• Apply and utilize "lean tools" to permanently implement improvements.
• Institutionalize 5-S in all aspects of the department. (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain)
• Use metrics to identify gaps and build improvement plans, striving for zero defects.
• Ensure department SOPs and Work Instructions are developed, maintained, trained to, and followed by employees to drive a culture of discipline throughout the shift.
• Utilize daily standard work for self and direct reports to reinforce a culture of discipline and consistent practices.

Management Competencies - Develop and maintain an organization of high-performing individuals who are aligned with Apex Vision, Purpose, and Values.

• Selection - Finds and retains the right people in each position and selects the right candidate.
• Training - Provides employees the skill and information they need to perform their jobs successfully and follows through to ensure learning.
• Leadership - Coaches employees to succeed and develop
• Redirection - Addresses chronic unacceptable performance in a way that causes improvement.
• Performance Evaluation - Objectively values and defines performance against outcomes and standards and ensures evaluations are completed on time.
• Employee Development - Follow a plan to develop performance and prepare people in their career development.