Compounding Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Position Summary

The Compounding Supervisor is responsible for overall operation of the Compounding department to ensure timely delivery of accurate, high-quality product batches to the Production department, as well as maximum department cleanliness, environmental compliance, safety, and efficiency.

Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Overall responsibility for Compounding Department (1st & 2nd floor) employees, including Compounders, Lead Compounders, and Sanitizers.
• Interview, train, supervise, counsel, discipline, and evaluate Compounding personnel.
• Report any issues that may be a safety violation/hazard to the Compounding Manager / Director of Operations and Safety Committee.
• Ensure employees are trained on Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies, Company policies, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) through company training sessions and/or daily Compounding meeting.
• Ensure all employees and work environments are safe and sanitary through weekly Compounding and company-wide audits.
• Investigate any employee work-related injury and report to Compounding Manager / HR.
• Ensure, through inspection, all Compounding employees write accurately and legibly all required information on any batch records, formulas, logbooks, and any other documents assigned.
• Maintain and update department SOPs and Work Instructions (WIs), as well as co-author any new SOPs/WIs as needed for the Compounding department.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance (QA) in investigating batch errors and implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Work with Production and Scheduling, as needed, to plan schedules and ensure that the production schedule is met.
• Submit requisitions to the Compounding Manager for supplies based on evaluating needs of the Compounding department.
• Ensure that all batches are manufactured according to legible and accurate batch procedures and formulas to prevent weighing, compounding, and material handling errors by reading and approving all batch procedures and formulas.
• Ensure all WO reports are right in the SAGE X3 ERP System, check staging and WO closing.  End of Month, all month WOs closed correctly, communicate with Accounting.
• Provide a clean, safe, injury-free working environment while ensuring production quality, on-time product delivery, identifying and employing cost-saving measures, and implementation of lean manufacturing methods through proper training of personnel and following up on all delegated tasks.

Technical Skills Required

• Work cooperatively with coworkers and supervisors.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance at work.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Ability to learn how to use the In-Processing Compounding Form and using Viscosity and pH meters.

Experience Required

• 5+ years in a Compounding/Manufacturing environment.
• 2 to 5 years of experience withGMP, FDA, Texas Department of Health, safety training.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of time.
• Ability to sit, balance, climb, stand, bend, squat, squeeze, kneel, turn, crouch, stoop repeatedly.
• Physically able to lift 75 pounds and manipulate up to a 500-pound drum on a regular basis.
• Frequent exposure to varying temperatures, loud noises, heavy machinery, fumes, or airborne particles, wet floor, moving mechanical parts, electrical, chemicals, vibrations, and working on a high platform.
• Prolonged use of computer screen.
• Must be able to discern differences in colors and shades.
• Good eye/hand coordination
• Ability to seize, hold, grasp, turn, or otherwise working with hand or hands.