at QPS Employment Group in Rockford, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Hours: 6:45am-3pm Monday-Friday + OT as Needed, 8:45pm-7am Monday-Thursday + OT as Needed
We’re hiring an Operations Line Lead in Rockford, IL. Take charge of daily production operations in a pharmaceutical packaging environment. Lead teams, operate equipment, and drive quality and performance in a role built for consistency, accountability, and long-term stability.
Operations Line Lead Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Operate and maintain machine accordance with batch record, safety and quality standards. Ensure process optimization through routine mechanical adjustments.
- Conduct daily line huddle communication meeting – review of all shift to shift communication, information acquired during the Shift meeting and VCB (Visual Control Board) results.
- Provide directions to other line members by ensuring the crew has signed the roster; assigning crew members to the appropriate positions.
- Review jackets and ensure proper components and resources are at the line.
- Escalate quality, service, and equipment performance issues to supervision.
- Communicate production needs to the necessary support departments to include but not limited to warehouse, quality, maintenance, and business unit.
- Update all line required information including hourly run charts and all areas of the VCBs.
- Interact with team to ensure machine performs optimally.
- Order components when necessary.
- Answer questions and resolve issues for associates on the line.
- Accurately completes paperwork to include scrap calculations, recovery and production rates, batch record entries.
- Lead and perform lot in and lot out, line clearance, and deep clean functions (Safe guards in place).
- Actively participate in Gemba and/or Safety Gemba as applicable on their line.
- May require use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR).
- This position may require overtime and/or weekend work.
- Knowledge of and adherence to all company, cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices), and GCP (Good Clinical Practices) policies, procedures, rules.
- Attendance to work is an essential function of this position.
Operations Line Lead Requirements:
- Stationary position: 3/4 of the day.
- Move, traverse: 3/4 of the day and up.
- Operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, or place: 3/4 of the day and up.
- Install, place, adjust, apply, measure, use, or signal: up to 3/4 of the day.
- Ascend/descend or work atop: from 3/4 of the day.
- Position self (to) or move (about or to): 3/4 of the day and up.
- Communicate or exchange information: 3/4 of the day and up.
- Detect, distinguish, or determine: 3/4 of the day and up.
- On an average day, expect to move and/or transport up to 50 pounds.
- This position may have the following special vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to focus.
- Work is performed in areas with moderate risk or discomfort that may require special safety precautions, such as -wearing protective clothing or gear for up to 3/4 of the day.
- Work near moving mechanical parts for 3/4 of the day and up.
- The noise level in the work environment is typically, moderate.
