Sr Manufacturing Specialist, Production Planning at Astellas in Westborough, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Sr Manufacturing Specialist, Production Planning

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians. If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com.

Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AIRM) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc and focused on the development and commercialization of stem cell and regenerative medicine therapies. Astellas is an R&D-driven global pharmaceutical company whose philosophy is to contribute to the improvement of people's heath around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products.

AIRM has a world-class R&D team, and is pursuing a diverse range of disease indications, ranging from macular degeneration (currently in clinical trials) and other ocular indications to vascular and autoimmune disease. AIRM's intellectual property portfolio includes pluripotent stem cell platforms -- both embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells as well as other cell-based therapy research programs. AIRM is headquartered in Massachusetts.

Astellas is announcing a Sr Manufacturing Specialist, Production Planning opportunity at their Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AIRM) site in Westborough, MA.

Purpose:

The Sr Specialist, Manufacturing, Production Planning will be part of the Manufacturing team. The Specialist role is responsible for the support of manufacturing operations and based on location, will typically be assigned to either Upstream, Downstream, Filling or any subsequent support functions. Additionally, based on assigned US Manufacturing location, the incumbent may work with cross functional teams including Quality Assurance, Process Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Manufacturing Science and Technologies. The Manufacturing Specialist typically reports to a Manager, Sr Manager, or Associate Director of Manufacturing.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for manufacturing reform / updates, including SOPs and batch records, ensuring all proposed updates are reviewed / approved prior to issuance.


• Will develop and deliver GMP and/or Manufacturing-related training to Manufacturing floor staff and facilitate updates or improvements to on-the-job training platforms while ensuring training curriculum is updated to reflect current process configurations.


• Will monitor process performance metrics, investigating operational issues, escalating potential nonconformances to management and QA as deemed appropriate.


• Responsible for leading Manufacturing nonconformances in the Quality Management System, identifying true root cause of incidents and recommending appropriate corrective / preventive actions when required.


• Responsible for change records, overseeing comprehensive implementation plans for investigations and/or continuous improvement changes, ensuring processes changes are in accordance with AGT's policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, guidelines, and recommendations. As assigned, will serve as project lead, or participate as a Technical SME on other site specific and/or cross-site programs.


• Will work with outside vendors and internal departments (maintenance, engineering, quality, etc.) to troubleshoot equipment performance issues.


• Assists with various audits and Facility walk throughs, responses, and corrections.


• Coordinates with other departments to schedule work and other activities that impact manufacturing site milestones.


• Based on assigned work location, would be responsible for supporting the technology transfer process. This can include supporting the drafting of User Requirement Specifications (URS) and Master Transfer Plans (MTP).


• Based on assigned work location, will design new or modify process MTL's, contribute to the population / maintenance of process descriptions and maintain product specific sample plans for incoming clinical tech transfer programs, including serving as Oracle SME, responsible for the population and maintenance product specific work definitions.


• Based on assigned work location, maintain detailed cleanroom production schedule for multi-product facility.