Manufacturing Manager

This is an amazing opportunity to contribute to a growing organization. Your role as Manufacturing Manager – Bio will allow you to serve staff and leaders and help provide creative solutions to drive CPC's short- and long-term goals. You'll join a creative and passionate team of individuals. This role offers plenty of opportunities to grow your skills and expand your knowledge!

The Manufacturing Manager will lead a team of supervisors, process technicians, and production personnel at our Minneapolis & Roseville locations. This team is dedicated to supporting CPC’s bioprocessing business unit, operating inside class 7 controlled environments. The Manufacturing Manager is an ambassador for the CPC culture – cultivating a passion for serving customers, operational excellence, and employee empowerment.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Ensuring that product is manufactured safely, to the highest quality standards, and on time while proliferating a culture of continuous improvement

• Collaborate cross functionally to meet safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity KPIs

• Responsible for managing labor capacity in alignment with sales and operations planning (S&OP)

• Attract, train and develop a world-class team focused on meeting customer expectations

• Drive employee engagement in problem solving and continuous learning

• Host daily tier boarding meetings and monthly town halls

• Promote & maintain awareness and compliance to workplace health and safety requirements in accordance with best practice and legal requirement

• Actively participate in Operational Excellence group projects focused on strategic development of production equipment, technology, and processes

• Support customer audit team with plant tours, process inquiries, and audit responses.

• Demonstrates support of CPC core values

• Other duties as assigned

Required Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Management or relevant field

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Lean, Six Sigma, and/or continuous improvement

• Minimum of 5 years of people leadership experience

• Manufacturing experience in controlled environments preferred

• Strong skills in production analytics and reporting

• Have a strong understanding of inventory management, production planning & scheduling

• Have a deep understanding and/or education around different flow management techniques especially within low-volume/high-mix business

• Have a working understanding of quality management systems such as ISO9001

• Have a working understanding of health and safety best practice