Production Line Lead

Position Title: Production Line Lead

Wage: $18.00 - $22.30 per hour

Shift: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, weekend

Hours: 6:45am-3:00pm (Mon-Fri); 2:45pm-11:00pm (Mon-Fri); 8:45pm-7:00am (Mon-Thurs); 6:45pm-7:00am (Fri-Sun); 6:45am-7:00pm (Fri-Sun)

Lead a high-performing production team in a fast-paced pharmaceutical packaging environment where your technical expertise, leadership, and focus on quality drive safe, efficient operations and help deliver life-changing medications to patients. Apply to this Production Line Lead in Rockford, IL!

Production Line Lead Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Operates and maintains machine accordance with batch record, safety and quality standards. Ensures process optimization through routine mechanical adjustments

- Conducts daily line huddle communication meeting - requires review of all shift to shift communication, information acquired during the Shift meeting and VCB (Visual Control Board) results

- Provides direction to other line members by ensuring the crew has signed the roster; assigning crew members to the appropriate positions

- Reviews jackets and ensures proper components and resources are at the line

- Escalates quality, service, and equipment performance issues to supervision

- Communicates production needs to the necessary support departments to include but not limited to warehouse, quality, maintenance, and business unit

- Updates all line required information including hourly run charts and all areas of the VCBs

- Interacts with team to ensure machine performs optimally

- Order components when necessary

- Answer questions and resolve issues for associates on the line

- Accurately completes paperwork to include: scrap calculations, recovery and production rates, batch record entries

- Leads and performs lot in and lot out, line clearance, and deep clean functions (Safe guards in place)

- Actively participates in Gemba and/or Safety Gemba as applicable on their line

- May require use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR)

- This position may require overtime and/or weekend work

- Knowledge of and adherence to all PCI Pharma Services, cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices), and GCP (Good Clinical Practices) policies, procedures, rules

Production Line Lead? Requirements:

- Stationary Position: 3/4 of the day

- Move, Traverse: 3/4 of the day and up

- Operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, or place: 3/4 of the day and up

- Install, place, adjust, apply, measure, use, or signal: Up to 3/4 of the day

- Ascend/Descend or Work Atop: From 3/4 of the day

- Position self (to) or Move (about or to): 3/4 of the day and up

- Communicate or exchange information: 3/4 of the day and up

- Detect, distinguish, or determine: 3/4 of the day and up

- On an average day, the individual can expect to move and/or transport up to 50 pounds

- This position may have the following special vision requirements: Close Vision, Distance Vision, Color Vision, Peripheral Vision, Depth Perception, Ability to focus

- Work is performed in areas with moderate risk or discomfort that may require special safety precautions, such as -wearing protective clothing or gear for up to 3/4 of the day

- Work near moving mechanical parts for 3/4 of the day and up

- The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate

- Excellent attendance

About us:

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