Production Leader

At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.

Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.

As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

**Job Summary**:
We are currently looking to recruit a Production Leader reporting to the Head of Product Delivery at the Keele facility. The Production Leader will be responsible for the operational management and delivery of Upstream processing within the GMP facility.

**This role is maternity cover, expected to last up to 12 months.**

**Main duties and Responsibilities**:

- Manage manufacturing activities through effective utilization of resources
- Ensuring manufacturing programmes are delivered according to Good Manufacturing Practice and in accordance with the Company Quality systems
- Working directly with internal departments to ensure on time in full delivery including all management of all supporting quality documentation
- Actively manage process improvements to improve efficiency
- Recruit, train and manage employees
- Manage and deliver continuous improvement opportunities to drive efficiency and capacity growth
- To ensure all activities within Product Delivery are carried out in accordance with the site Quality policies and procedures.
- To effectively manage the timely execution and completion of associated Quality Systems documentation including deviations, CAPAs and change controls.
- Leadership through coaching and mentoring of multi skilled scientific teams
- To maintain a flexible and responsive team through active training and development of all individuals.
- To ensure all staff understand and comply with the site rules and expectations.
- Perform other duties that from time to time management will assign

**Profile and Requirements**:
Proven clean room experience is highly desirable; if you do not have practical clean room experience, you will be able to demonstrate a strong knowledge of GMP. You will also have previous biologics experience, either in an academic or industrial setting. You must be flexible in your approach to work and willing to work additional hours to accommodate processing.

You will be able to demonstrate high levels of organisation, planning and contingency and be able to strong verbal & written communication and presentation skills.

In addition, you will be fully conversant with Microsoft Office; the enthusiasm to learn and the ability to interact and communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels within the organisation are also essential.

This role will be based at Keele, Staffordshire, however, a willingness to travel within the Group will be required.

**About Corporate Functions**
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.