**Job Title: Sr. Production Operations Manager** **Job Description** Our client is seeking a Sr. Production Manager to lead their manufacturing department in West St. Paul, MN. This full-time, on-site role involves providing strategic direction, managing teams, ensuring quality and compliance, optimizing processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. **Shift:** Day Shift (Monday-Friday) **Responsibilities** + Provide strategic direction and oversight to production teams, ensuring efficient operations and adherence to industry standards. + Supervise and develop three Manufacturing Supervisors, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team. + Champion a culture of quality, safety, and compliance with cGMPs and GDPs. + Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. + Troubleshoot issues, lead investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation. + Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Quality, Engineering, R&D, and Project Management. **Essential Skills** + Lean manufacturing + Process improvement + Supervisory skills + Continuous improvement + Manufacturing operations + GMP environment + Microsoft Office proficiency + MRP system expertise + Operations management + Plant management **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of leadership in a cGMP setting, or associate’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience. + 5+ years in operations/plant management. + 2+ years in the pharmaceutical or medical device industry. + Proficiency in Microsoft Office and MRP systems **Why Work Here?** The company offers competitive benefits including 401(k) with matching, dental insurance, flexible spending account, health insurance, life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and vision insurance. Employees receive annual salary increases for meeting or exceeding job performance and a 62.5% match of every dollar invested up to 6% of annual salary in the 401(k) plan. Additionally, holiday pay varies based on years of service, and there is an educational assistance program offering reimbursement up to $5,250 per year for eligible employees. **Work Environment** The work environment is a clean room setting. The company partners with pharmaceutical companies to create and produce innovative medication delivery systems. **Job Type & Location** This is a Permanent position based out of West Saint Paul, Minnesota. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.