Head of Visual Inspection
Simtra BioPharma Solutions
Required skills
About the role
Translated into English from German by Korum. The employer's original wording is on their site.
Simtra is a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation that has been bringing sterile, injectable medicines to market worldwide for over 65 years, in collaboration with more than 60 international clients. Our main focus is the manufacture of cancer therapeutics. With the support of over 2,000 employees at our three sites in Bloomington, Indiana, USA; Parsippany, New Jersey, USA; and Halle/Westphalia, Germany, we can offer our clients a broad portfolio of delivery systems, including pre-filled syringes, liquid/lyophilised vials, diluents for reconstitution, powder-filled vials and sterile crystallisation. In addition to GMP manufacturing, we also offer further services, including formulation and development support, freeze-drying optimisation, global regulatory support and secondary packaging.
Simtra is made up of versatile teams across a range of areas! Become part of the team and help make life-changing medicines available to patients worldwide.
We manufacture medicines at our Halle/Westphalia site for the treatment of various cancers and other life-threatening diseases.
For our team we are looking for you as Head of Visual Inspection for the Pharma Production Inspection department (2263).
In this role you will be responsible for the on-time, cost-optimised and quality-compliant visual inspection (manual and semi-automated inspection), including unloading, crimping and external washing of parenteral medicines. Your further responsibilities include:
- Disciplinary and technical leadership of subordinate employees
- Management and optimisation of staff deployment (including staff training & development)
- Cost centre responsibility and budget planning
- Reduction of inspection lead times
- Standardisation and control of inspection, logistics and organisational processes under lean manufacturing principles and regulatory requirements
- Compliance with currently valid cGMP rules, taking customer requirements into account
- Support in preparing and timely processing of changes subject to change control, in collaboration with process engineers
- Ensuring and optimising the GMP batch documentation system and recording and assessing quality-relevant trends
- Further development of the EMS system through implementation of 6S measures and visualisations on SMBs (Standardised Metric Boards, A3s, Control Charts)
You bring:
- A completed vocational training with further qualification as a Master (m/f/d) / Technician (m/f/d), or a completed degree in the pharmaceutical industry or similar (e.g. biotechnology, biology, pharmacy, biochemistry)
- At least 8 years of professional experience, including leading larger cross-functional teams, ideally in a pharmaceutical-technical production environment with knowledge of aseptic manufacturing
- Initial project experience is desirable
- A very good understanding of technical and organisational processes
- Organisational talent, proactive and clear communication, and decisiveness
- Very good German and good English skills, spoken and written
- Very good IT skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
What we offer you:
- An attractive salary and 30 days' holiday
- In-house modern canteen with attractive subsidised meals
- Job bike leasing
- Corporate Benefits: exclusive discounts for employees with numerous well-known brands
- Good transport links and free employee parking
- Free workplace sports such as badminton, football and fitness classes
We offer interesting opportunities to committed and talented people. Gender, age, skin colour, origin, sexual orientation and disabilities play no role - on the contrary: we promote diversity and believe that diversity is an enrichment.
We look forward to receiving your application documents detailing your professional career via our online system. Please note that a CV is required - without it, your application unfortunately cannot be considered.
For questions, please feel free to contact Hartmut Sperber ([contact details removed])
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