Team Lead

Team Lead

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

Our Manassas, Virginia site is a part of the Consumer Health division and provides expanded capabilities in soft chews and lozenges. With extensive development and manufacturing expertise and a wide range of flavors, ingredients, and colors available, we can work with complex formulations to help create engaging new products consumers will love.

The Team Lead provides general leadership to bagging production team. Ensures that safety and quality standards are maintained while capturing established productivity targets. The Team Lead supports continuous improvement activities and acts as a subject matter expert on processes and equipment within the department. Complies with and leads others in SQF, Food Safety Plan (HACCP), Food Quality Plan (FQP) standards. Responsible for ensuring accurate and timely communication to and from the production floor.

This is a 12 hour rotating schedule on night shift.

The Role

• Assists leadership with the execution of daily production activities.
• Ensures that any changes in processes or procedures are properly communicated and enacted by the team.
• Reviews and submits all required controlled documentation in a timely manner and ensures all documentation is accurate and complete.
• Enters packaging production in inventory system daily.
• Ensures daily shift reports are complete and necessary details are provided.
• Makes necessary judgment call to align with schedule changes by prioritizing specific duties to stay on schedule.
• Ensures team is following the appropriate break schedule and assisting in all other packaging areas as needed.
• Communicates with production leadership and warehouse team to ensure all required materials are staged and ready ahead of each shift.
• Communicates with quality and maintenance any time there is an issue with the product or equipment.
• Other duties assigned.

The Candidate

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Forklift experience is a plus.
• Previous experience in a leadership role is preferred.
• Previous experience in packaging is preferred.
• Ability to receive direction and properly communicate to team, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and buy-in.
• Knowledge of packaging machinery and proper operation.
• Basic computer skills required.
• Ability to work independently and motivate staff to meet required deadlines.
• Must be flexible and be willing to work with various demographics and backgrounds.
• Strong analytical/problem solving/process improvement skills.
• Demonstrable leadership experience at Catalent (including but not limited to participation in Catalent-sponsored leadership programs such as NGGL, GOLD, LEAD Now, GM Excellence, and GROW) may be considered in place of external experience.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel and is frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• PPE to include gloves, safety glasses, bump cap and hearing protection is always required on the Packaging department floor.

Why You Should Work At Catalent

• Spearhead exciting and innovative projects
• Fast-paced, dynamic environment
• High visibility to members at all levels of the organization
• 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone's safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

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