Job Summary
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1. To be an active member of the St Austell Senior Leadership Team, contributing to site-wide strategy and decision-making
2. To define the strategic intent for the St Austell Process Engineering Function and contribute to the STA entity strategy
3. To effectively manage the St Austell Process Engineering to ensure that the function delivers to time cost and quality in all activities
4. To be accountable for all operational excellence activities within STA.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
5. Measure and control functional costs and resources within agreed budgets to ensure the business is fully supported.
6. Responsible for driving continuous improvements through the use of lean six sigma tools
7. To monitor and measure STA operational excellence
8. Lead and participate in appropriate projects, product and process development
9. Define departmental objectives in line with business goals
10. Responsible for coordinating the introduction of new products
11. Responsible for coordinating and customer product transfers
12. Effectively manage the process engineering team to ensure effective service delivery
13. Ensure functional legislative compliance
14. Provide effective processes to the production department to ensure a quality and cost effective product is produced on time
15. Ensure all customer validation requirements are met within expectations
16. Be an active member of the customer facing operational team
Health, Safety & Environment
17. Lead by example and get involved to ensure the overall implementation of the Safety Leadership Statement and to maintain its on-going effectiveness. Involvement includes allocation of time, budget, staffing, training, priority setting, accountability, visibility and follow up etc.
18. Hold the overall responsibility for safety, health and welfare at work of employees, visitors and contractors. Responsibility to ensure that appropriate resources are made available to support the Health and Safety activities on site.
19. Create a safe and healthy workplace where employees are motivated and energized to do their best each day and return safely to their families after work.
20. Have a sufficient number of resources in place: HSE Leader, plus Safety Representatives within each department, Occupational Health Physician (where legally required), First Aiders, Emergency Response Resources. Provide sufficient time for them to be effective and ensure back-up plan are in place to ensure daily work is covered in case of absence.
21. Support the Plant Health and Safety Committee and ensure it is actively involved in discussions, planning, decisions and actions regarding health and safety at work.
22. Manage and conduct work activities in such a way as to ensure the safety, health and welfare at work of the employees.
23. Manage work activities in such a way as to prevent behavior, putting employees at risk.
24. Establish a performance feedback and reward systems to hold people accountable for safety and to recognize/reward safe behaviors.
25. Establish a site discipline/reward system which includes compliance with Safety expectations and behaviors. Ensure discipline is used to correct repeated unsafe Safety behaviors as appropriate.
26. Ensure that employees are not subject to retaliation if they report safety issues within the site or raise concerns through West’s Compliance and Ethics Helpline.
27. Ensure workers receive at regular intervals health surveillance appropriate to the health and safety risks they incur at work. Health surveillance shall be introduced in accordance with national law and / or practices.
28. Establish comprehensive HSE Objectives/Goals/Targets/Plans, which are documented, measured, and communicated and which are consistent with the Corporate HSE Programs, and regional/global targets.
29. Ensure each department has defined departmental goals and actions plans which are consistent with the site targets. Define goals and KPI’s (leading and lagging metrics) which are cascaded down through the organization.
30. Without diminishing the overall responsibility of the Managing Director, he/she shall delegate specific responsibilities of the day-to-day safety management functions to other leaders.
Each employee has the following responsibilities:
31. Take reasonable care for their own safety, health and welfare and that of any other person, who may be affected by his/her acts or omissions while at work.
32. Work in a safe manner and stay alert, in order to avoid injury to themselves or other employees and avoid damage to the company’s equipment and property.
33. Follow all safety rules and requirements and provide feedback to co-workers working unsafely.
34. Use any personal protective equipment or clothing, suitable appliance, equipment or other means for securing his/her safety, health and welfare while at work.
35. They shall not perform a job that for they were not trained to perform and they shall inform their supervisor in this case.
36. Partner with management on all the provisions taken by West to ensure the safety, health and welfare of its employees.
37. SEE-DO-SAY Something: Respond to unsafe conditions, unsafe acts and near misses. Apply mitigation measures, and report to supervisor.
38. Stop Think Act: Discuss problems openly with colleagues and leaders before taking action in a non-routine situation.
39. Employees will not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse any appliance, protective clothing, equipment or other means provided.
40. Each employee will attend and follow training required by West.
41. Employees shall not be under the influence of intoxicating substances such as alcohol or drugs and inform their supervisor of a disease, illness or prescribed medication that may add to risk.
Quality
42. Thejob holder is aware of his/her special responsibility for quality according to the company’s quality policy and conducts his/her activities in accordance with the company quality policy at all times.
43. It is the Quality Policy of West Pharmaceutical Services Cornwall Ltd, to plan and control its activities to ensure that all products and services conform to the requirements of our customers and provide full customer satisfaction. The principle objective is to supply products that are cost effective without prejudice to the required standard of performance, reliability and quality. Accountability for the implementation of this Policy is delegated through this job specification. All employees must conduct activities in accordance with the company Quality Policies/Procedures at all times.
44. Comply with company cGMP regulations.
45. Accurately record all details as required on company documents.
46. Undertake all necessary training and re-training to be able to undertake all aspects of the job
Qualifications/ Skills/ Abilities:
Minimum
47. Educated to university degree level
48. Six Sigma Green Belt
49. ILM Level 5 or equivalent
Desirable
50. Six Sigma Black Belt
51. ILM level 7 or equivalent
52. APM or equivalent qualification
Competencies I Authorities
53. Experience of process engineering in a manufacturing environment
54. Expeireince of working in a matrix management environment
55. Experience in managing a team
56. Experience in setting and managing budgets
57. Project Management expereince
58. Expereince of defining a strategy for process engineering in a manufacturing environment
59. Experience in a customer facing role
60. Experience in a purchasing role
61. Experience of working with SAP
62. Experience in validation and change control
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
63. Team Player
64. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
65. Able to develop effective working relationships
66. Able to work independently and autonomoulsy
67. Demonstrates a can-do attitude
68. Able to coach and develop people
69. Strong planning and organisational skills
70. Leads by example in accordance with Wests values
71. Act as a change agent
West embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We foster an environment where all individuals are safe, treated fairly, valued and respected. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Where permitted by law, employment with West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. or any of its subsidiary or affiliate companies, is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of post-offer background screening and/or drug screening.