Manufacturing Manager

Employment Type: Full-time

Available Positions: 1

Location : On-Site

Application Deadline: Jan 7, 2026

Summary

The Manufacturing Manager is responsible for overseeing daily production operations to ensure efficient, safe, and cost-effective manufacturing processes. This role focuses on meeting production targets, maintaining quality standards, optimising processes, and leading production teams to achieve operational excellence.

Key Activities

• Responsible for ensuring that the output of Production, Quality Control, Packaging, and Shipping meets established schedules and quality goals.
• Responsible for meeting customer forecasts/deliveries.
• Responsible for determining, maintaining, and establishing minimum finished good products based on sales and forecasts.
• Responsible for the management, discipline, and evaluation of the Shipping Supervisor, Production Supervisor and Lead, Quality Control (QC) Supervisor and Lead, and Packaging Supervisor and Lead.
• Responsible for oversight and training of Shipping Supervisor, Production Supervisor, QC Supervisor, Packaging Supervisor and other staff as needed.
• Responsible for coordinating overall recruiting efforts in collaboration with Human Resources and each department’s Supervisor for Production, Quality Control, Packaging, and Shipping Departments.
• Responsible for coordinating with Upper Management, Facilities, Accounting, Purchasing, Customer Service, Regulatory, and other departments, to ensure that organisational goals regarding safety, efficiency, quality, and profitability are met.
• Responsible for coordinating with and providing input (including product-related troubleshooting) to Research & Development and product development/engineering to ensure organisational goals regarding quality and profitability are met.
• Additional duties may be added as the need arises.
• Direct oversight, supervision, training, and evaluation of the Quality Control Supervisor and general guidance of the QC Staff to maintain proper QC of all outgoing/incoming products and equipment.
• Direct oversight, supervision, training, and evaluation of the Shipping Supervisor and general guidance of the Shipping team regarding outgoing orders to be filled and backorders; shared oversight of inventory with the Accounting Manager and Purchasing Manager.
• Direct oversight, supervision, training, and evaluation of the Packaging Supervisor and general guidance of the Packaging Staff to maintain quality packaging of all outgoing products.
• Direct oversight, supervision, training, and evaluation of Production Supervisor and general guidance of Production Staff to maintain quality and on-time delivery of all outgoing products.
• Direct approval and coordination with the Purchasing Department for laboratory needs (material requests, instrument needs/ repairs/ maintenance).
• Hiring of Production, Shipping and Receiving, Inventory, QC, and Packaging Staff.

Preferred Skills

• A creative and innovative mindset.
• Strong organisational, communication and presentation skills.
• An ability to multitask and deal with changing priorities.

Educations & Experience

• B.S. in Biology, biology-related field
• 3+ years’ supervisory experience or equivalent (2-3 years management experience over multiple departments preferred).
• Knowledge and experience with Manufacturing Management prefer.

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Job ID: 8104