Production Supervisor - Eurofins Genomics LLC

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

The Production Supervisor is responsible for the oligonucleotide manufacturing operation and implementation of activities to meet production goals, quality, and cost objectives. Perform activities in concordance with FDA-QMS/QSR and ISO-9001 standards; ensure
compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations. Select, develop, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. Plan and administer procedures and budget, serve as a manufacturing representative and technical expert. This position is full time onsite in Louisville KY, Monday to Friday, 8am - 5pm, with overtime as needed.

Shift Responsibilities in Chronological order:

• Arrives 30 minutes prior to standard shift to receive information from previous shift's Lead Technician as well as information important to communicate to upcoming shift as per formal communication plan.
• Reviews received information on important orders and personnel updates from area-specific management; this information should be expected from each area daily.
• Lead Performance dialogs to ensure proper communication between departments, accountability with regard to KPIs, checks on health of all technicians, and takes attendance for shift.
• Carries out all General Responsibilities.
• Complete walkthrough of all areas confirming areas are picked up for the next shift and check for completion of check out responsibilities.
• Plans to spend final 15-30 minutes of standard shift with the following Shift Lead Technician to allow for proper shift handover and to write a shift transfer including said information.

General Daily Responsibilities:

• Manages overall shift production activities; ensures production schedule adherence and daily product flows for all of production
• Reviews all WIP levels on shift and leads efforts to ensure all product due for the day is shipped
• Delegates tasks and is in control of execution of tasks
• Sets daily production targets with team members (Min/Max expectations)
• Leads initial troubleshooting and follows escalation policy militantly to process owners for items that are high risk to safety, quality, or schedule as per set standards (as per formal escalation policy).
• Receives feedback from Production Manager and Head of Process Development for daily priority items
• Assigns shift members to workstations in order to best support shift schedule.
• Leads incident investigations that occur on shift and ensures all paperwork/escalations are completed prior to shift completion
• Escalates performance and/or attendance concerns

General Overall Responsibilities:

• Perform monthly cross-training to continue learning more about overall production
• Suggest improvements and helps execute
• Leads operator skills matrix for all lab members on shift. Ensure trainings necessary trainings are completed.
• Works within the team and in coordination with management to determine deficiencies in training.
• Trained as a tr