Job Title Visual Inspection Manager
Location: Swiftwater, PA
This is a 3rd Shift leadership role.
About the Job
The Manager, Visual Inspection Operations provides hands-on leadership and strategic oversight of visual inspection operations within a regulated vaccine manufacturing environment. This role is accountable for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance while fostering a culture of ownership, compliance, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is an experienced visual inspection leader who sets clear expectations, holds teams accountable to defined standards, and drives measurable performance improvements. This individual brings strong technical knowledge of manual and automated inspection processes and leverages industry best practices to strengthen systems, elevate inspector capability, and enhance operational efficiency.
This leader serves as a change agent developing talent, improving processes, reinforcing right-first-time execution, and elevating inspection excellence across the shift.
Main Responsibilities
Safety:
- Follows all procedures put into effect to ensure your safety as well as the safety of others. Participates in monthly safety meetings.
- Reports all safety issues, concerns, incidents and near misses to the team leadership.
- Actively participates in safety walkthroughs coordinated by the departments safety team.
- Provides input for potential safety issues as well as contributing ideas for corrective and preventative actions.
- Follows effective procedures to ensure the production of a safe and efficacious product.
- Utilizes +QDCI boards for Safety issues
Quality:
- FDA audit understanding and awareness. Ensures areas are always following proper procedures.
- Identifies possible deviation occurrences and prevents or aids in investigations and root cause analysis.
- Ensure compliance with cGMP, FDA, EU Annex 1, and regulatory requirements.
- Review batch records and inspection documentation for accuracy and completeness.
- Lead preliminary deviation investigations and support root cause analysis.
- Support internal and external audits and regulatory inspections.
- Maintain inspection standards and ensure audit readiness.
Delivery:
- Performs production in accordance with volume fluctuation, business need, and effective procedures. Must be flexible to ensure staffing for changing business volume and needs
- Lead visual inspection operations during 3rd shift.
- Establish clear expectations and drive accountability across the team.
Cost:
- Executes procedure as documented to avoid deviations.
- Oversee production planning and scheduling to meet throughput and quality targets.
- Drive efficiency improvements, waste reduction, and process optimization initiatives.
- Implement best practices from industry benchmarking and prior experience.
- Lead or support automation initiatives for visual inspection systems.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain.
Involvement:
- Has a thorough working knowledge of cGMPs and works to help others understand.
- Maintains acceptable training as described in key requirements.
- Coach, develop, and mentor inspectors and frontline leaders.
- Manage recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance management.
- Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and continuous improvement.
About You
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in any field, OR 5 years of equivalent experience in pharmaceutical operations.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical or biologics manufacturing
- Minimum 2 years of team leadership experience (managing direct reports).
- Strong knowledge of cGMP requirements and quality systems.
- Demonstrated ability to drive accountability and performance improvement.
- Experience leading root cause investigations and implementing corrective actions
Preferred Qualifications- Direct visual inspection experience in a GMP-regulated environment
- Experience with manual and automated inspection processes
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing operations
Why choose us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether its through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention andwellness programs and at least 14 weeksgender-neutral parental leave.
- Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.
- Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation at speed and scale
- Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.
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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesnt happen without people people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, lets be those people.
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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only
North America Applicants Only
The salary range for this position is:
$90.000,00 - $130.000,00
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information canbe found here.
