{"id":3829391,"url":"https://alion.io/job/fujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream","title":"Manufacturing Supervisor, Upstream","company":{"id":9349,"name":"Fujifilm","domain":"fujifilm.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/fujifilm-holdings","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":10,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Holly Springs, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":true,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Cell Culture","optional":false},{"name":"GLP","optional":false},{"name":"GMP","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T19:07:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T09:31:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Position Overview\nAs an upstream supervisor, you’ll lead and inspire a team of manufacturing associates, supporting the start up of a new large scale cell culture facility. The Upstream area includes: An inoculum lab, two seed reactor trains (each with 4 reactors of increasing size), four 20,000L production reactors, a harvest suite, media preparation, and parts prep area.\nYou and your team will work a 2-2-3, 12 hour shift schedule to support the ongoing activities in these areas.\nYou’ll start out leading a team in project phase supporting commissioning and qualification efforts in addition to helping prepare the facility to be operational ready. It’s an exciting opportunity to help build out processes and procedures in preparation of the first GMP run later this year.\n*Relocation Assistance Available*\nCompany Overview\nFUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.\nWe’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive-what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together!\nHolly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.\nFujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers\nJob Description\nWhat You’ll Do\nProject Phase (Through Q3 2025)\nSupports various commissioning and qualification activities\nLead and support your team in operational readiness tasks as required, such as: document review/approval, team onboarding, and materials management\nResponsible for building and executing a training plan for your team to prepare for the first GMP batches later this year\nMentoring and developing team members\nAdministers company policies, such as, but not limited to: travel & expense, time reporting, and time off that directly impact employees\nCollaborate and coordinate cross functionally with various support groups as needed in support of start up activities \nOperations Phase (Starting Q3 2025)\nProvides on-the-floor leadership for a shift team of up to 7-10 manufacturing associates\nCoordinates the execution of the manufacturing schedule through daily shift assignments, lead daily huddles, and manages escalations\nFosters an inclusive, people-first culture with regular communication, conducting 1:1s focusing on the development and success of your team \nMaintains a safe and cGMP compliant environment by ensuring direct reports have correct and up-to-date training, performing gemba walks, and having a safety and quality mindset culture within your team\nSupports manufacturing investigations and continuous improvement projects\nCoordinates with other functional areas for additional activities requiring access to the manufacturing space and equipment, such as but not limited to: maintenance, calibration activities and the use of manufacturing equipment\nAdministers company policies, such as but not limited to: time reporting, time off, shift policies, and inclement weather that directly impact manufacturing employees\nBasic Requirements\nHigh School Diploma or GED with 8 years of experience from a similar role in large pharma/biotech operations or projects\nPreferred Requirements\nBA/BS Degree in Life Sciences with 4+ years of experience from a similar role in large pharma/biotech operations or projects OR\nAssociates Degree in Life Sciences and 6+ years of experience from a similar role in large pharma/biotech operations or projects OR\nMilitary Experience of equivalence\nExperience in manufacturing of biological products, familiar with GMP/GLP requirements\nPrevious experience leading, supervising or managing others\nPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS\nWill work in an environment which may necessitate respiratory protection\nMay work in Mechanical/Production spaces that may require hearing protection and enrollment in a hearting conservation program\nAbility to discern audible cues\nWORKING ENVIRONMENT\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS\nAbility to ascend or descend ladders, scaffolding, ramps, etc.\nAbility to stand for prolonged periods of time\nAbility to sit for prolonged periods of time \nAbility to conduct activities using repetitive motions that include wrist, hands and/or fingers.\nAbility to conduct work that includes moving objects up to 10 lbs.\nENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS\nWill work in heights greater than 4 feet\nTo all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.\nEEO Information\nFujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.\nADA Information\nIf you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department ().","description_format":"text","description_chars":6195,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Relocation assistance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Advanced Materials","Vaccines","CRO & CDMO Services","Printers & Scanners"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T19:07:25Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":1,"median_offered_wage_usd":122500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-09T07:32:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":89,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.894,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":10,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/fujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/fujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T12:07:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14809,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":9349},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=9349"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/fujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffujifilm-manufacturing-supervisor-upstream"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3829391}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"fujifilm.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3829391},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}