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This organization manufactures sterile drug products supporting our clinical pipeline in a highly regulated Good Manufacturing Practice environment.\nThe Operations Manager is a first-line shop-floor supervisor who leads a team of manufacturing professionals and provides daily oversight of sterile manufacturing operations.\nThe Operations Manager is responsible for delivering operational excellence while maintaining the highest standards of Safety First, Quality Always, compliance, and reliable delivery.\nThe successful candidate will drive a culture of Right First-Time execution, continuous improvement, inspection readiness, and employee engagement while advancing our Company's Enterprise Leadership Skills and our Company Production System principles. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration with Quality, Technical Operations, Engineering, Validation, Supply Chain, and Regulatory partners to ensure compliant and efficient manufacturing operations.\nAccountability & Responsibilities\nDaily Shop-Floor Leadership\nProvide visible, first-line supervision of manufacturing operations and personnel.\nSet daily priorities, assign work, coordinate support resources, and ensure effective shift handoffs.\nLead tier meetings, communicate schedule and performance expectations, and escalate safety, quality, staffing, or supply risks.\nTimely review and approve manufacturing and compliance documentation as authorized by procedures.\nProactively identify and recommend capital improvements for the shop floor, aligned with operational excellence and compliance objectives\nQuality & Compliance Leadership\nChampion a proactive quality culture that prioritizes patient safety, product quality, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.\nServe as a quality advocate by ensuring manufacturing activities comply with current Good Manufacturing Practice, regulatory requirements, site procedures, and quality standards, with a particular focus on aseptic behaviors.\nAuthor/lead or contribute to investigations of manufacturing events and deviations, including complex investigations, within the assigned area, partnering with Quality and technical functions to assess root causes and identify and implement effective corrective and preventative actions.\nMaintain a state of inspection readiness and support all audits.\nDemonstrate strong knowledge of regulatory expectations, data integrity principles, quality risk management, and Good Documentation Practices.\nOperational Leadership\nEnsure safe, compliant, and reliable execution of manufacturing operations while meeting production schedules and customer requirements.\nMonitor shift and area performance metrics and lead actions to address gaps\nIdentify and implement opportunities to improve process robustness, cycle time, productivity, deviation reduction, and operational efficiency.\nMake and escalate risk-informed decisions consistent with procedures and quality requirements.\nContinuous Improvement\nFoster a culture of operational excellence through structured problem solving and continuous improvement initiatives.\nSupport value stream improvements and business process optimization efforts using Lean Manufacturing and MPS methodologies.\nPromote behaviors that improve process stability, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness.\nPeople Leadership\nDevelop a high-performing organization through coaching, talent development, and performance management.\nCreate an inclusive environment that embodies our Company Values and Enterprise Leadership Skills.\nCore Competencies\nAbility to develop and lead others\nAbility to be flexible and understand risk\nContinuous improvement \nConflict resolution\nLeadership style - adaptive; high-performance coaching; servant leader\nGMP Manufacturing\nData Integrity\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nRequired Experience and Skills\nBachelor’s degree in science, Engineering or another technical field\nMinimum 3 years of leadership experience within Manufacturing, Quality, Technical Operations, Engineering, Validation, Supply Chain, or related life science operations.\nDemonstrated experience working in a regulated GMP environment.\nProven experience leading teams and delivering results through others.\nStrong knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations, Good Documentation Practices, and quality systems.\nDemonstrated experience in supporting the investigation of manufacturing events, deviations, non-conformances, audits, and operational issues.\nAbility to identify systemic issues, assess risk, and implement effective corrective actions.\nExperience working across Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Technical Operations organizations.\nPreferred Experience and Skills\n2 or more years’ experience in aseptic or sterile manufacturing operations.\nExperience supporting FDA, EMA, or other global regulatory inspections.\nExperience with Quality Management Systems including deviations, corrective and preventative actions, change controls, and audit responses.\nExperience supporting teams through compliance-related challenges, regulatory feedback, or inspection readiness activities.\nKnowledge of our Company Production System, visual management, and structured problem solving.\nExperience using operational excellence and Lean methodologies to improve performance.\nStrong understanding of data integrity and quality culture expectations.\n#eligibleforERP\nRequired Skills:\nBiochemical Analysis, Clinical Manufacturing, Dosage Forms, Evaluating New Technologies, Identifying Customer Needs, Medical Knowledge, New Product Research, Patent Commercialization, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Production, Pharmaceutical Technologies, Pilot Plant Operations, Specification Development, Team LeadershipPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nUS and Puerto Rico Residents Only:\nOur company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.\nAs an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Asa federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:\nEEOC Know Your Rights\nEEOC GINA Supplement\nWe are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.\nLearn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts\nThe salary range for this role is\n$117,000.00 - $184,200.00This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.\nThe successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.\nWe offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.\nYou can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.\nSan Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.\nEmployee Status:\nRegularRelocation:\nNo relocationVISA Sponsorship:\nNoTravel Requirements:\n10%Flexible Work Arrangements:\nNot ApplicableShift:\n1st - DayValid Driving License:\nNoHazardous Material(s):\nThere is potential to work with Hazardous materialsJob Posting End Date:\n10/6/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. 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