Safecor Health, LLC is the nation’s largest independently owned repackaging operation dedicated to providing unit dose medications to hospitals and long-term care facilities. We facilitate a more efficient and safe delivery of medications to patients in those important care settings. Safecor Health repackages in most dosage forms including liquids, oral solids, powders, and over bagging of items for use in automation deployed throughout hospitals.

The Director of Operations – Columbus position is responsible for managing all operations of the Columbus, OH facility including all hospital repack production, warehouse, shipping and receiving operations. In addition, the Director of Operations is the key manager that ensures that product is packaged in a timely manner, consistent with customer expectations and ensuring the quality and integrity of pharmaceutical packages that are produced in our state-of-the-art packaging facility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct and manage all operations in the Columbus, OH facility
  • Production – Manage Direct Supervisors and Managers, who manage 100 – 200 full and part-time employees over two production shifts
  • Warehouse – Ensure that bulk product and components are received properly by staff on a regular basis, inventory cycle counts are completed, inventory turns maintained.
  • Receiving – Ensure that customer work/sales orders are generated from the receiving of wholesaler bulk product
  • Shipping – Manage daily shipments to customers utilizing UPS and FedEx
  • Budget – Keep track of budget and call out short falls as known

• Develop and implement production standards and measurements for the operation
  • Develop daily / monthly reports that measure capacity utilization
  • Develop daily / monthly reports that measure cost / margin by production area
  • Create process and measurements to effectively evaluate production employees
  • Set production standards at the production lot level
• Work in collaboration with Quality Assurance, Sales and Customer Service to improve product consistency and quality goals and ensure that there is a closed-loop for measurements and process improvement
• Manage projects that involve the purchase and implementation of new production capabilities and equipment.

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree
• Experience:
  • Progressively increasing responsibility in manufacturing roles
  • 5 – 7 years of managing manufacturing in an FDA regulated environment
  • Process improvement utilizing Six Sigma concepts or other continuous improvement process
• Knowledge/Skills:
  • General management experience is required with heavy emphasis on setting and tracking metrics, coaching, and leading large teams
  • Continuous Improvement Experience
  • Pharmaceutical industry knowledge is preferred
  • Understanding of packaging equipment and the overall process of manufacturing and production environments
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to assess, prioritize, and act