Lead Manufacturing Shift Manager

Novo Nordisk; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

8% 401K with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Novo Nordisk seeks a Lead shift process supervisor at its Durham site to lead, coach and mentor shift teams to meet production plans, quality, and business objectives. You will coordinate with contractors, engineers and internal stakeholders to ensure site success.

The role emphasizes safety, quality adherence, and people development across shift teams, with responsibilities spanning direction, prioritization and coordination of resources to achieve targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; required for leadership role.
• Minimum 5 years in leadership or NN leadership program (GROW) completed.
• Bulk Processing experience preferred.
• Experience in a manufacturing/FDA-regulated environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create a safe, productive and engaging workplace.
• Promote adherence to quality objectives and requirements.
• Coach and develop employees within the department/teams.
• Provide direction, prioritization and motivation for all shift team members.
• Manage personnel issues, vacations and related decisions for shift staff.
• Perform process confirmation to ensure compliance.
• Collaborate across shift teams to standardize and improve.
• Support training on procedures and related tasks.
• Coordinate and ensure In Process Checks and sampling.
• Confirm and manage standards.
• Other accountabilities as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Team management

Lean manufacturing

Six Sigma

Process improvement

Problem solving

Documentation reading

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Word / Outlook / Excel / PowerPoint

PLCs

PAS-X

Job description

Novo Nordisk seeks a Lead shift process supervisor at its Durham site to lead, coach and mentor shift teams to meet production plans, quality, and business objectives. You will coordinate with contractors, engineers and internal stakeholders to ensure site success.

The role emphasizes safety, quality adherence, and people development across shift teams, with responsibilities spanning direction, prioritization and coordination of resources to achieve targets.