Pfizer

Manager Process Engineer (Injectable Packaging)

Posted on: 4 Apr 2021

Kalamazoo, MI

Job Description

ROLE SUMMARY

Provides technical expertise and operational support for Drug Product Injectable Packaging operations. Partners with shop floor colleagues and supervision to ensure smooth and efficient production of a diverse mix of products. Assists in equipment troubleshooting activities as needed.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Identifies and implements cost savings ideas, specifically efficiency improvements and other projects that increase equipment capacity.

Develops and validates manufacturing processes for drug products, taking into consideration problems inherent in packaging processes & technology.

Conducts tests and measurements throughout stages of production to determine control over applicable variables.

Investigates deviations that occur on the manufacturing floor. Performs root-cause analysis and identifies appropriate, effective corrective actions. Implements corrective actions in conjunction with the appropriate enabling groups, i.e. engineering, maintenance, quality, validation, environmental health and safety.

Leads technical improvement projects aimed at defect reduction, improved equipment reliability, and better equipment utilization.

Serves as customer project manager on equipment purchases or improvements; interface closely with engineering to specify user requirements, review and approve drawings, define project scopes.

Collaborates with and influences other enabling departments (Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, etc.) to assure initiatives are successful.

Provides concise and thorough updates on initiatives to site leadership.

Mentor senior level colleagues inside and outside of department.

This position does not have any direct reports, but is required to indirectly manage personnel across the site to support specific activities for project duration.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field such as Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering with minimum 8 years experience OR Masters Degree in a technical field such as Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering with minimum 5 years experience.

* Pharmaceutical or manufacturing experience and strong, demonstrated technical skills exhibited in a cGMP environment are requirements. Specific knowledge of and experience with Drug Product processing and equipment is highly desirable.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Job will include standing, walking, and sitting. Occasional lifting may be required.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Up to 5% domestic and/or international travel

Job may also require occasional weekend/evening work supporting a 24-hour/7 day operation

Other Job Details:

* Last Date to Apply: April 6th, 2021
* Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus
* Eligible for relocation

LI-PFE

Sunshine Act

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

Manufacturing

Pfizer

New York, New York

Pfizer Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products worldwide. It offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including internal medicine, vaccines, oncology, inflammation and immunology, and rare diseases under the Lyrica, Chantix/Champix, Eliquis, Ibrance, Sutent, Xalkori, Inlyta, Xtandi, Enbrel, Xeljanz, Eucrisa, BeneFix, Genotropin, and Refacto AF/Xyntha brands. The company also provides consumer healthcare products that comprise over-the-counter medicines, including dietary supplement products under the Centrum, Caltrate, and Emergen-C names; pain management products under the Advil and ThermaCare names; gastrointestinal products under the Nexium 24HR/Nexium Control and Preparation H names; and respiratory and personal care products under the Robitussin, Advil Cold & Sinus, and ChapStick names. In addition, it offers products that would lose or have lost marketing patent protection; branded generic products; generic sterile injectable products; biosimilars; and anti-infectives under the Lipitor, Premarin family, Norvasc, Lyrica, Celebrex, Viagra, Inflectra/Remsima, Zyvox, Vfend, Revatio, Inspra, Medrol, Sulperazon, Fragmin, Tygacil, Nivestim, and Retacrit, Ixifi Infliximab BS names.

Further, the company is also involved in the contract manufacturing business. It serves wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, pharmacies, and individual provider offices, as well as disease control and prevention centers. The company has collaboration and/or co-promotion agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., and Oncolytics Biotech Inc.; licensing agreement with BionTech AG; strategic alliance with Verily Life Sciences LLC; and collaboration agreements with Pfizer, Merck & Co., Inc., and Eli Lilly & Company, as well as with Merck KGaA and Nektar Therapeutics to develop a therapy for treating pancreatic cancer. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.