Director of Manufacturing – Pharmaceutical Operations
On-siteWaukegan, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Provide overall leadership for manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain, and facilities operations at the ReadyCare site in Waukegan, ILL. Lead the transformation into a pharmaceutical manufacturing operation grounded in cGMP requirements, supporting FDA remediation and inspection readiness. Drive the restart and ramp-up of key product lines including medical wipes and CHG products while managing capital expenditures for line expansion. Establish performance expectations across safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and equipment reliability. Build and develop a high-performing leadership team and predominantly hourly workforce, implementing continuous-improvement practices and predictive maintenance programs. Ensure effective inventory control and maintain a safe, clean, and secure workplace compliant with all procedures. Manage a 150-person workforce across three shifts with benefits including health insurance, 401(k), and paid time off.
Required Qualifications
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing leader
- Experience leading manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain and facilities operations
- Knowledge of cGMP requirements
- Experience with strong operating discipline
- Experience supporting FDA remediation
- Experience with inspection readiness
- Experience with sustainable compliance
- Experience with manufacturing readiness
- Experience with restart and ramp-up of key product lines
- Experience establishing clear performance expectations
- Experience driving improvement across safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity and equipment reliability
- Experience strengthening manufacturing processes
- Experience with continuous-improvement practices
- Experience with predictive maintenance
- Experience with employee-training programs
- Experience building, developing and engaging a high-performing leadership team
- Experience with predominantly hourly workforce
- Experience with change management across systems, processes, behaviors and organizational culture
- Experience managing capital expenditures
- Experience with future manufacturing-line expansion
- Experience with effective inventory control
- Experience with accurate receipt, storage and movement of materials
- Experience maintaining a safe, clean and secure workplace
- Experience ensuring compliance with all applicable safety procedures
- Experience partnering with Quality and other functional leaders
- Experience investigating and resolving product issues
- Experience leading approximately 150 employees across three shifts
- Experience repositioning a facility as a full-cycle pharmaceutical manufacturing operation
- Experience strengthening pharmaceutical operating practices
- Experience supporting regulatory remediation
- Experience implementing a sustainable drug-quality management system
- Experience returning key products to market
- Experience transforming an operation
- Experience building long-term capability
- Experience influencing a broader drug-manufacturing network
- Experience working in a regulated, moderately automated environment
- Experience manufacturing medical wipes
- Experience manufacturing CHG products
- Experience working at a ReadyCare manufacturing site
- Experience in Waukegan, ILL
- Experience with external expertise
- Experience with significant investment
- Experience with new leadership
- Experience with new manufacturing practices
- Experience with new drug-quality management systems
- Experience with new product lines
- Experience with new safety procedures
- Experience with new quality management systems
- Experience with new delivery systems
- Experience with new cost management systems
- Experience with new productivity systems
- Experience with new equipment reliability systems
- Experience with new training programs
- Experience with new leadership teams
- Experience with new change management systems
- Experience with new capital expenditure management
- Experience with new manufacturing-line expansion
- Experience with new inventory control systems
- Experience with new receipt, storage and movement of materials systems
- Experience with new safe, clean and secure workplace systems
- Experience with new compliance systems
- Experience with new Quality partnerships
- Experience with new functional leader partnerships
- Experience with new product investigation and resolution systems
- Experience with new operational transformation
- Experience with new regulatory transformation
- Experience with new operational discipline
- Experience with new operational excellence
- Experience with new operational efficiency
- Experience with new operational effectiveness
- Experience with new operational performance
- Experience with new operational results
- Experience with new operational outcomes
- Experience with new operational metrics
- Experience with new operational KPIs
- Experience with new operational targets
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- Experience with new operational plans
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- Experience with new operational initiatives
- Experience with new operational projects
- Experience with new operational tasks
- Experience with new operational activities
- Experience with new operational processes
- Experience with new operational workflows
- Experience with new operational procedures
- Experience with new operational protocols
- Experience with new operational standards
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- Experience with new operational policies
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