Manufacturing Operator

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet.

That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

This position is primarily focused on weekend operations, with the flexibility to support weekday training as needed. The role involves serving as an advanced-level Manufacturing Operator responsible for producing biopharmaceutical filtration devices, with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and productivity. As a critical and adaptable team member, you are expected to quickly learn new processes and operate across multiple work centers to meet customer demand.

Additionally, you will play a key role in supporting back-order recovery, loss recovery, and site training initiatives by bridging gaps in high-priority areas.

Work Schedule:

Monday & Tuesday 8 hour shifts

• Flexing working hours between weekdays and weekends to facilitate training and production time
• Manufacture quality products safely and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures, Quality and Safety Specifications and GMP standards.
• Safely operate a manufacturing process and monitor required inputs and outputs.
• Support proper line opening and line closing through material control and proper machine set up.
• Accurately complete documentation per GMP standards.
• Ensure a clean and orderly workspace.
• Proactive identification of safety, quality, and productivity concerns. Actively report hazardous conditions or hazardous behaviors observed in the work center and the site.
• Demonstrates strong operational awareness by aligning efforts with weekly site priorities, actively participating in shift changeovers, and communicating effectively with colleagues and leadership; escalates issues appropriately to minimize downtime and material loss, performs intermediate troubleshooting and equipment set-ups, and operates with limited supervision in routine situations. Additionally, supports team development by coaching and training operators on processes and product functionality, conducts thorough reviews of completed lot records including ERP material reconciliation, serves as a back-up lead when needed, and contributes to continuous improvement through workflow enhancements, improvement initiatives, and participation in R&D and experimental projects.

• Exposure to high production output machinery and equipment in a production/plant environment.
• 100% Standing and/or sitting for duration of shift, up to 12 hours.
• Frequent lifting of 20 - 30 lbs. necessary/Max lifting - 40 to 50 lbs.
• Bend and twist as needed.
• Grasp, manipulate and handle objects consistently and regularly, Fine motor skills are required.
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