Director of Operations

Job Details

Job Location

Columbus OH - Columbus, OH

Description

Safecor Health, LLC is the nation's largest independently owned repackaging operation dedicated to providing unit dose medications to hospitals and long-term care facilities. We facilitate a more efficient and safe delivery of medications to patients in those important care settings. Safecor Health repackages in most dosage forms including liquids, oral solids, powders, and over bagging of items for use in automation deployed throughout hospitals.

The Director of Operations - Columbus position is responsible for managing all operations of the Columbus, OH facility including all hospital repack production, warehouse, shipping and receiving operations. In addition, the Director of Operations is the key manager that ensures that product is packaged in a timely manner, consistent with customer expectations and ensuring the quality and integrity of pharmaceutical packages that are produced in our state-of-the-art packaging facility.

Key Responsibilities:

Direct and manage all operations in the Columbus, OH facility

Production - Manage Direct Supervisors and Managers, who manage 100 - 200 full and part-time employees over two production shifts

Warehouse - Ensure that bulk product and components are received properly by staff on a regular basis, inventory cycle counts are completed, inventory turns maintained.

Receiving - Ensure that customer work/sales orders are generated from the receiving of wholesaler bulk product

Shipping - Manage daily shipments to customers utilizing UPS and FedEx

Budget - Keep track of budget and call out short falls as known

Develop and implement production standards and measurements for the operation

Develop daily / monthly reports that measure capacity utilization

Develop daily / monthly reports that measure cost / margin by production area

Create process and measurements to effectively evaluate production employees

Set production standards at the production lot level

Work in collaboration with Quality Assurance, Sales and Customer Service to improve product consistency and quality goals and ensure that there is a closed-loop for measurements and process improvement

Manage projects that involve the purchase and implementation of new production capabilities and equipment.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's degree

Experience:

Progressively increasing responsibility in manufacturing roles

5 - 7 years of managing manufacturing in an FDA regulated environment

Process improvement utilizing Six Sigma concepts or other continuous improvement process

Knowledge/Skills:

General management experience is required with heavy emphasis on setting and tracking metrics, coaching, and leading large teams

Continuous Improvement Experience

Pharmaceutical industry knowledge is preferred

Understanding of packaging equipment and the overall process of manufacturing and production environments

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Demonstrated ability to assess, prioritize, and act