Assistant Production Manager at Esquire Consultants Limited

Job Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)

• Ensure implementation of production activities/plan according to production scheduling.
• Planning, implementing and monitoring of technological changes to enhance productivity.
• Produce daily, weekly, monthly production plans, effectiveness of production plans and efficiency reports in consultation with the Plant Manager.
• Ensure production processes and storage complies with batch production requirement and other GMP conditions.
• Ensure achievement of desired yield of each product and minimize losses during operations.
• Efficiently manage inventory levels, for ensuring ready availability of material to meet production dispatch target at economical storage costs by trend and historical data analysis.
• Maintain GMP and good documentation practices in production.
• Ensure overall supervision of production staff.
• Co-ordinate recruitment, deployment, appraisal, training, discipline and promotion of production staff.
• Approve written procedures and other documents including amendments.
• Monitors and control manufacturing process and environment.
• Enforce the observation of hygiene and sanitation in the plant supplemented with data capturing.
• Participate in quality audits and inspections.
• Identify staff training needs and carry out personnel training including the application and principles of quality assurance.
• Ensure trouble shooting of production process or whenever necessary.
• Designate and monitor storage conditions for materials, semi-finished and products.
• Retain records of relevant documents.
• Perform any others responsibility as may be assigned by the Company Pharmacist or Management.

Person Specifications (Qualifications, Skills and Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in Msc- Analytical Chemistry
• Minimum 10 years work experience working in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing company
• Exceptional analytical ability towards solving Quality-related concerns;
• Proficiency in quality control
• Good interpersonal skills, detail to work and knowledgeable in all matters pertaining to the profession
• Excellent communication and reporting skills;
• Preferably local Asians but local Kenyans are also eligible to apply and be shortlisted