Position Summary
The Compounding Manager will be responsible for overall 1st and 2nd floor operation of the Compounding - First Shift department to ensure timely delivery of accurate, high quality product batches to the Production department, as well as maximum department cleanliness, environmental compliance, safety, and efficiency. This position will work as part of a team, both internally with other departments and externally with customers, to accomplish company goals and metrics.
Responsibilities and Essential Duties
- Overall responsibility for All Compounding Department (1st & 2nd floor) employees including the Supervisor, Compounders, Lead Compounders, and Sanitizers.
- Interview, train, supervise, counsel, discipline, and evaluate Compounding personnel.
- Report any issues that may be a safety violation/hazard to the Program Director and Safety Committee.
- Ensure employees are trained on Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies, Company policies, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) through company training sessions and/or daily compounding meeting.
- Ensure all employees and work environments are safe and sanitary through weekly compounding and company-wide audits.
- Investigate any employee work-related injury and report to the Program Director / HR.
- Ensure, through inspection, all Compounding employees write accurately and legibly all required information on any batch records, formulas, logbooks, and any other documents assigned.
- Maintain and update Department SOPs/Work Instructions (WIs), as well as co-author any new SOPs/WIs as needed for the Compounding department.
- Work closely with Quality Assurance (QA) in investigating batch errors and implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Work with Production and Scheduling, as needed, to plan schedules and ensure that the production schedule is met.
- Submit requisitions to the Program Director for supplies based on evaluating needs of the Compounding department.
- Ensure that all batches are manufactured according to legible and accurate batch procedures and formulas to prevent weighing, compounding, and material handling errors by reading and approving all batch procedures and formulas.
- Provide a clean, safe, injury-free, working environment while ensuring production quality, on-time product delivery, identifying and employing cost-saving measures, and implementation of lean manufacturing methods through proper training of personnel and following up on all delegated tasks.
- Manage team to meet and exceed quotas developed by Scheduling.
- Ensure SOPs are followed to meet and exceed Quality Standards set forth in Specifications.
- Ensure team maintains highest levels of safety to build an environment where the team’s well-being is a top priority.
- Work with other departments to ensure that goals and expectations can be met.
- Roles and Responsibilities will change to meet the growing needs of the company.
- Support Company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans.
- Collaborate and communicate with the Operations team.
- Own and lead special projects as assigned.
Technical Skills Required
- Work cooperatively with coworkers and supervisors.
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance at work.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Ability to learn how to use the In-Processing Compounding Form and using Viscosity and pH meters.
- Organized and analytical.
- Self-directed and motivated.
- Collaborative and team-oriented.
Experience Required
- 7 or more years prior work experience in CPG manufacturing industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge of production management.
Physical Requirements
- Regularly sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of time.
- Ability to sit, balance, climb, stand, bend, squat, squeeze, kneel, turn, crouch, stoop repeatedly.
- Physically able to lift 75 pounds and manipulate up to a 500-pound drum on a periodic basis.
- Frequent exposure to varying temperatures, loud noises, heavy machinery, fumes, or airborne particles, wet floor, moving mechanical parts, electrical, chemicals, vibrations, and working on a high platform.
- Frequent use of computer screen.
- Must be able to discern differences in colors and shades.
- Good eye/hand coordination
- Ability to seize, hold, grasp, turn, or otherwise working with hand or hands.
About Company
At the heart of what we are, we are a small company that specializes in manufacturing personal care products. While we are much bigger now than what we were 20 years ago or even 5 years ago, our company was built on a belief that being small meant that we had to be faster than our competition, smarter, braver and of course, nicer. We knew that in order to make it, we had to produce products that our customers needed, in time, priced right, and with the highest quality. We knew innovation meant pushing the envelope on design and thinking. Most importantly, we knew that developing relationships meant building a reputation for coming through on promises and standing behind our product. That is who we are today and how we operate every day.