Production Manager

The Production Supervisor is responsible for planning, scheduling, execution, and overall performance of manufacturing operations across the Fill & Pack and Compounding areas. This role has full ownership and final decision-making authority over production planning and scheduling, ensuring that production priorities, sequencing, and recovery plans align with customer demand, operational capacity, and business objectives. The Production Manager leads Production and Compounding teams to achieve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost targets while ensuring compliance with Company policies, GMP requirements, and regulatory standards.

This role collaborates closely with Warehouse, Process Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance leadership to drive stable and efficient operations. The Production Manager reports directly to the Plant Manager.

• This position supervises Production Supervisor – Fill & Pack, Production Planning Supervisor, and Compounding Supervisor.
• This position provides indirect leadership to Production Leads, Operators, and Compounding personnel through the supervisory structure.

• Lead and manage daily production operations across fill & pack and compounding to ensure safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives are met.
• Establish daily priorities and provide clear direction to Production and Compounding Supervisors aligned with the approved production schedule.
• Ensure effective shift communication, escalation, and issue resolution to maintain operational continuity.
• Support supervisors in removing barriers and sustaining stable, predictable operations.

• Own the production plan and production schedules for Fill & Pack and Compounding, including sequencing, capacity alignment, and prioritization.
• Coordinate with the Plant Manager regarding final decision on all scheduling changes, and recovery plans in response to labor, material, quality, or equipment constraints.
• Direct the Production Planning Supervisor in developing schedules, scenarios, and capacity analyses; review, approve, and release final schedules.
• Lead daily and weekly scheduled review meetings and communicate schedule decisions and changes to Production, Maintenance, Warehouse, Quality, and Process Engineering.
• Balance customer service requirements, labor utilization, operational efficiency, and cost when making scheduling decisions.
• Provide overall leadership, direction, and accountability for compounding operations as part of the total production organization.
• Assign operational ownership of day‑to‑day compounding execution to the Compounding Supervisor
  , including personnel management, batch execution, adherence to procedures, and compliance with safety, quality, and GMP requirements.
• Direct the Compounding Supervisor on priorities, output requirements, and sequencing to ensure alignment with the Production Manager–approved production schedule
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• Ensure compounding activities support downstream Fill & Pack demand through proper planning, communication, and coordination.
• Review compounding performance, capacity, and constraints;
  make final decisions on prioritization, escalation, or trade‑offs that impact the overall production plan
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• Partner with R&D, Quality, and Process Engineering to support batch scale‑ups, trials, process improvements, and issue resolution, with execution led by the Compounding Supervisor.
• Ensure compounding documentation, batch card records, and systematic consumption tracking are completed accurately and reviewed in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.

• Promote and enforce all safety policies, procedures, and safe work practices across production and compounding operations.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, quality systems, and documentation requirements.
• Partner with the Quality Manager on non-conformance investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective and preventative actions.
• Ensure production controls, such as line clearances, batch card record reviews, validations, and systematic tracking and releases are executed correctly and documented.