Plant Owner

**Site Name**: UK - Angus - Montrose

**Posted Date**: May 25 2023
**Plant Owner**

GSK are recruiting for a Plant Owner to join on a full-time and permanent basis at the site in Montrose.

This role is part of the operational management team and will involve working closely with Technical, Quality and Engineering departments to plan, coordinate and execute plant cleaning and turnarounds as well as continuous plant and process improvement activities.

As Plant Owner you will be part of the Montrose operational leadership and will be working cross-functionally gaining the opportunity to develop relationships across the site. It is a great position to develop your operational management and influencing skills for future growth.

**This is a site-based position but there may be a small amount of remote working flexibility, when work permits, at management discretion.**

**Job Purpose**

The operating unit exists to manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and intermediates.

The Plant Owner role will provide a focus for building and process cleaning improvements and work on a dayshift pattern to drive standards in the plant, processes and footprint of the land.

The Plant Owner role is to ensure that all potential losses to plant availability, performance and quality are recognised and minimised such that the “in scope” manufacturing facilities operate at their design and optimum efficiency during process changeovers to meet cGMP, customer requirements and world class manufacturing standards.

**In this role you will**
- To deliver significant operational improvements which will improve safety, quality, cost of goods, compliance and ways of working, reduce waste and bureaucracy.
- Drive the use of standard work and visuals to aid training across shifts to ensure a consistent approach is adopted.
- Provide support to the Operations’ teams to ensure standards of housekeeping are being maintained and improved via process improvements.
- Be the Operations’ nominee for specific projects within the manufacturing area, ensuring practical implementation of the solution with the Process Technicians, Shift Leader and Area Operations Leader buy in.
- Produce Budget Requests, Project Initiations, Minor Project Initiations, which articulate the current issue via a situation, target and proposal methodology.
- Drive and champion the Plant Modifications through the system for your area of responsibility.
- Assist with trouble shooting, problem solving as necessary, including Root Cause Analysis and weigh up advantages and disadvantages in order to provide the best possible solution.
- Support, and as required, lead safety and quality investigations.
- Ensure all the documents to initiate a turnaround are available.
- Reduce product changeover times to the absolute minimum based on realistic resource constraints (Process Technicians, Engineers and Laboratories). For new changeovers they shall be optimized during the initial evaluation runs of the changeover and further improvements to reduce the internal time identified and implemented on subsequent runs.
- Script a “standard changeover schedule” cleaning Fixed Repeating Schedule (FRS) to drive the training and control of the changeover operation, this schedule shall drive the content of the changeover batch document which shall be aligned to the optimized changeover.
- Provide a plan (FRS) for each changeover that can be implemented every time. Lead FRS meeting at Level 2 meeting to ensure appropriate accountability across departments and escalate resource requirements. Complete an after-action review (AAR) after each changeover, including a review of lost time, taking the learnings and adapting the plan ready for its next use.
- Communicate at regular intervals via different media the up and coming cleaning events and progress of the activity once started.
- Drive a reduction in the number of non-routine solvent issues for cleaning and changeover and ensure that all changeover materials and all solvents are accounted for during the issue of a changeover batch sheet, so the SAP systems will ensure they are present when required. Amend SAP Bill of Materials (BOMs) as required to ensure they are accurate.
- Plan ahead, ensuring all stakeholders are aware of cleaning plan and timelines.
- Look for ways to align and improve cleaning procedure and documentation across site.
- Represent Operations department during Quality audits on cleaning validation and cleaning processes.
- Look for areas to improve turnarounds and process cleaning to minimise clean and turnaround times, optimising plant capacity and supporting continuity of supply.
- Work with Area Operations Leader to produce a 3 year building and facility improvement plan and feed into CAPEX process each year in order to build a strong facility and standards each year.

**_ Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 4th June 2023_**:
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available