Manager, Manufacturing

Bausch & Lomb GmbH; Greenville (SC); In loco; USD 110.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Bausch + Lomb is seeking a Manufacturing Manager to lead 24/7 operations across Aseptic Filling, Preparing/Cleaning, and Packaging at the Greenville, SC plant. You will own safety, quality, delivery, cost, and compliance, while guiding weekend coverage and escalation to maintain continuous production.

Qualified candidates will have a bachelor’s degree, GMP leadership experience, and a proven ability to manage multi-shift teams in regulated manufacturing environments.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Life Sciences, Operations Management, or a related field preferred.
• Experience leading GMP manufacturing operations in aseptic, pharmaceutical, medical device, biologics, or other regulated environments.
• Proven ability to lead multi-shift or 24/7 operations, including weekend coverage and cross-functional coordination.

Mansioni

• Provide tactical and long-range operational directives for 24/7 manufacturing in Aseptic Filling, Preparation/Cleaning, and Packaging.
• Maintain ownership across all shifts, including weekend responsibilities and escalation.
• Ensure GMP, FDA, Annex 1, ISO requirements and SOPs are followed; coach teams toward standards.
• Set performance expectations and oversee resources to meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.
• Drive Lean, Six Sigma, OEE, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Conoscenze

Leadership

GMP experience

Cross-functional coordination

Problem solving

Continuous improvement

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in engineering or life sciences

Descrizione del lavoro

Bausch + Lomb (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) is a leading global eye health company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world—from the moment of birth through every phase of life. Our mission is simple, yet powerful: helping you see better, to live better.

Our comprehensive portfolio of over 400 products is fully integrated and built to serve our customers across the full spectrum of their eye health needs throughout their lives. Our iconic brand is built on the deep trust and loyalty of our customers established over our 170-year history. We have a significant global research, development, manufacturing and commercial footprint of approximately 13,000 employees and a presence in approximately 100 countries, extending our reach to billions of potential customers across the globe. We have long been associated with many of the most significant advances in eye health, and we believe we are well positioned to continue leading the advancement of eye health in the future.

Objectives/Purpose of Job:

The Manager, Manufacturing is responsible for leading 24/7 manufacturing operations across Aseptic Filling, Preparation/Cleaning, and Packaging. This role provides end-to-end operational ownership for safety, quality, delivery, cost, compliance, and people leadership while ensuring production activities are executed in accordance with GMP, regulatory expectations, approved procedures, and site standards. The role also provides weekend operational support and serves as a key escalation point to maintain continuity of operations across all shifts.

Key Activities/Responsibilities:

• Provide tactical and long-range operational directives for Aseptic Filling, Preparation/Cleaning, and Packaging to achieve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and compliance objectives in a 24/7 manufacturing environment.
• Maintain operational ownership across all shifts, including weekend responsibilities, issue escalation, resource coordination, and decision-making to ensure production continuity.
• Establish expectations for team’s understanding of and compliance with GMP, FDA, Annex 1, ISO requirements, approved batch records, SOPs, contamination-control expectations, and internal quality systems. Ensure line leaders properly coach their teammates to routinely achieve these standards, driving recognition and accountability throughout the entire team.
• Set performance expectations and provide managerial oversight for Aseptic Filling, ensuring line leadership has the resources, priorities, and cross-functional support needed to meet daily safety, quality, delivery, and compliance targets; remove systemic barriers and address issues escalated by line leadership.
• Provide strategic and operational oversight for Preparation and Cleaning, holding line leadership accountable for production readiness, sanitation performance, and adherence to established standards while resolving cross-functional constraints and escalated operational risks.
• Direct Packaging performance through clear priorities, governance, and accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, compliance, and customer service; enable line leadership to achieve daily targets by aligning resources, removing obstacles, and addressing escalated issues.
• Drive operational excellence through Lean, Six Sigma, OEE improvement, 5S, visual management, waste reduction, changeover optimization, downtime reduction, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, and Warehouse to coordinate production schedules, preventive maintenance, reliability activities, investigations, CAPAs, deviations, change controls, validations, inspections, and new equipment startup.
• Create an environment conducive to the development of teammates primarily through timely coaching, feedback, and recognition, helping ensure everyone has an opportunity to do their best work.
• Manage staffing, labor planning, productivity, and budget performance while ensuring the organization is appropriately resourced to meet daily execution and long-term business needs.

Qualifications/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Life Sciences, Operations Management, or a related field preferred; equivalent manufacturing leadership experience may be considered.
• Experience leading GMP manufacturing operations in aseptic, pharmaceutical, medical device, biologics, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-shift or 24/7 operations, including weekend coverage, escalation management, and cross-functional coordination.
• Knowledge of aseptic processing, cleaning practices, packaging operations, documentation practices, contamination prevention, and regulatory readiness.
• Proven capability in people leadership, technical problem solving, continuous improvement, operational performance management, and change leadership.

This position may be available in the following location(s): US - Greenville, SC (Plant)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.