Who We Are

We touch the lives of over 200 million patients every day, and billions every year. After all, everyone needs healthcare or medication at some point. Yet until today, you may not have heard of us. We’re Teva, a global pharmaceutical company, committed to increasing access to high-quality healthcare to patients around the world and we are currently searching for Manufacturing Team Leader to join our team on a Full Time, Permanent basis in Runcorn.

At Teva Runcorn, we develop, manufacture and market innovative and affordable medicines, specialising in sterile liquid products mainly used for treating respiratory conditions using Blow-Fill-Seal technology as well as injectable Combination Products such as our MS treatment Copaxone.

A Day In The Life Of A Manufacturing Team Leader

Our Manufacturing Team Leaders are responsible for leading, developing and managing our shift teams within our Blow Fill Seal (BFS) or Pre Filled Syringe (PFS) department in Runcorn.

You will work with our passionate and knowledgeable team to achieve improvements in planned production, pharmaceutical awareness, quality, cost, supply plans and activities in compliance with company, regulatory, pharmaceutical and internal/external standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the team and monitor, maintain and analyse ‘on-shift’ technical data to identify corrective actions and improvements to the manufacturing process through visible management systems.
• Comply with company policies, procedures and engineering standards - Ensuring health and safety/housekeeping standards are maintained
• Facilitate technical/process data and give guidance in the areas of fault diagnosis
• Minimise manufacturing downtime to ensure output targets are achieved and continually improved upon
• Co-ordinate and take a hands-on approach to deliver maintenance plans on time to meet filling plans.
• Recruit, coach, and train team members, ensuring all training plans and assessments are achieved on time
• To act as point of contact for NPD/NPI with relation to ongoing projects.
• Investigate cell process related deviations to ensure Cell process activities are compliant with cGMP, GEP, and HS&E Complete Incident Reports/ CAPA close out in a timely manner

Working Hours

The shift pattern is a mixture of 6am-6pm and 6pm-6am, working one weekend every other week. 7 shifts over a 2 week period.

• Shift allowance of an additional 40% of your base salary earnings.

Who We Are Looking For?

Do You Have?

• A HNC or equivalent in an Engineering or Science discipline and/or equivalent and relevant experience (minimum)
• A Degree in an Engineering or Science discipline and relevant experience (desirable)
• Proven technical skills gained within a Pharmaceutical, FMCG or Food environment
• Relevant leadership experience in a production environment (preferably pharmaceutical manufacturing)
• Experienced in managing staff and leading change and continuous Improvement through your teams
• A natural interest/passion for implementing Lean Methodologies or other OPEX tools such as Six Sigma

Are You?

• Able to operate as part of an operations and supply chain Team - confident working across functional boundaries and influencing peers in area of expertise.
• Taking a lead on pharmaceutical compliance, standards and operational performance improvement
• Influencing and motivating people to achieve all supply chain goals
• Confident presenting departmental activities and debate technical issues with confidence

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

What We Offer

• 23.5 paid shift holidays per year with the option to buy and sell up to 3.5 days annual leave each year
• Private healthcare scheme through Bupa
• A formal training and development programme specific to your role and department
• Company pension – flexible employee and employer contributions
• Competitive salary and shift allowance
• Employee assistance programme
• A number of health benefits including: Life Assurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Income protection
• Plus many other flexible benefits via salary sacrifice: Cycle to work scheme, online and in store discounts and much more

Already Working @TEVA?

If you are a current Teva employee, please apply using the internal career site available on "Employee Central". By doing so, your application will be treated with priority. You will also be able to see opportunities that are open exclusively to Teva employees. Use the following link to search and apply: Internal Career Site

The internal career site is available from your home network as well. If you have trouble accessing your EC account, please contact your local HR/IT partner.

Application deadline for internal candidates will close on Wednesday 8th January 2025 #TJ

Teva’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commitment

At Teva, we pride ourselves on being a company where we can all thrive, and where everyone feels comfortable being their true self.

Diversity and inclusion sits at the heart of everything we do. By valuing difference, we can be a better employer for our colleagues, and provide a better service for our customers and patients. That is why we are constantly looking for ways in which we can learn from each other, embrace what makes us unique and contribute to a fairer society free from discrimination and prejudice.