Value Stream Specialist - Packing (Late Shift) in Skipton

£36,600 salary – £19.55 per hour equivalent. Shift details: Late shift 2.00pm – 10.30pm Monday – Thursday – 12.00pm – 8.30pm Friday (nine‑day fortnight). Every other Friday off. Based at our Skipton, North Yorkshire manufacturing site. Please only apply if you live in a commuting distance of Skipton.

We are Dechra, a growing, global specialist within the world of veterinary pharmaceuticals, developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling high‑quality products exclusively for veterinarians worldwide.

The role involves providing technical, operational, and compliance support to ensure that all pharmaceutical manufacturing/packing processes run efficiently, safely, and in line with GMP, quality, and business objectives. Responsibilities include:

• Acting as the subject matter expert (SME) for day‑to‑day manufacturing and packing operations within the department.
• Supporting batch manufacture across formulation, filling, and packaging, ensuring adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards.
• Training operators and technicians on procedures, best practices, and GMP expectations.
• Maintaining training records and verifying operator competency within the area of responsibility.
• Delivering shift briefings and ensuring effective communication both ways with the shopfloor.
• Advocating on the shopfloor for employee engagement and people plan initiatives to create a positive working culture.
• Supporting onboarding of new team members.
• Promoting and upholding site safety culture – actively participating in safety walks, risk assessments, and incident reviews.
• Ensuring all manufacturing activities are performed in accordance with EHS policies and permit conditions.
• Driving strong housekeeping standards to maintain a safe working environment.
• Ensuring team's adherence to risk assessments and input to updates where required.
• Promoting active participation in hazard identification and resolution of open hazards.
• Preparing and reviewing batch documentation, logbooks, and electronic records to ensure data integrity.
• Assisting in updating and completion of GMP documentation such as SOP's and BMR's.
• Troubleshooting process deviations to maintain compliance and ensure non‑conformances are managed and documented appropriately.
• Escalating any non‑conformances, contributing to the investigation and closure of deviations and corrective & preventative (CAPA) actions.
• Driving right first time (RFT) execution through operator coaching and real‑time support on the shop floor.
• Supporting preparation and execution of internal and external audits from document control through to housekeeping standards.
• Troubleshooting equipment issues to minimize downtime and maintain schedule adherence.
• Supporting plan delivery through effective resource and process management.
• Ensuring completion of short interval control (SIC) sheets to ensure detail available for data analysis for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, maximise output and drive schedule adherence.
• Completion of Oracle transactions to ensure recovery plan adherence.
• Driving live yield optimisation to reduce waste during production.
• Reducing batch rejects through CAPA closure and improvement of RFT.
• Providing production support and process oversight by acting as the subject matter expert (SME) for day‑to‑day operations within the department.
• Supporting Tier meetings and working cross functionally to drive shift performance.
• Championing safety, quality and productivity improvements, encouraging all team members to come forward with ideas and supporting them to implement them, where this is possible.
• Contributing to improvement projects, CAPEX and NPD workstreams as required.

KPIs include RFT and deviation closure rates, compliance with GMP and EHS standards, OEE and yield performance, training completion and competency verification, and engagement in improvement initiatives.

You should be a self‑motivated enthusiastic individual who can support the shopfloor and work well within a team environment. You must have the ability to deliver day to day production activities whilst remaining compliant under a regulated environment and supporting improvements.

Essential:

• Experience of low to medium volume production, manual/semi‑automated processes.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety compliance.
• Proven industry experience from a highly regulated GMP production facility.
• A working knowledge and practical experience of pharmaceutical manufacture and ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both within the production team and cross functionally.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of computerised systems such as Oracle.
• Ability to conduct some data analysis to determine improvement projects.
• A working knowledge and practical experience of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead projects and teams.

Reward includes £36,600 salary – £19.55 per hour equivalent, free onsite parking, average 36 hour working week, 22.5 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays, option to buy a week’s holiday each year, and 8% Employer Pension Contribution.

We look forward to receiving your application.