Manufacturing Manager-Components

Why Choose Us?
Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else - it's as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you'll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life's work with an ongoing mission that's bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

What you Need to Know:

In this role, you will be responsible for management and control of all daily manufacturing processes in the blood components laboratory, including all staff, assigned volunteers, budgets, environment, and work processes. You'd be expected to ensure compliance with federal, state, Red Cross and regional directives.

WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD:

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of laboratory staff and volunteers including, but not limited to, hiring, training, coaching, evaluating, and disciplining to ensure a well-qualified team and to enhance operational success and compliance.

• Serve as a resource for supervisors for complex technical issues.

• Responsible for management of Manufacturing and Transportation, if applicable.

• Ensure all functions are performed following all applicable regulatory policies and/or procedures and promptly to meet customer needs.

• Ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, regional policies, and procedures.

• Coordinate the implementation of new or revised tests, procedures, and equipment with SOPs, CFR, and OSHA regulations.

• Ensure laboratory training and annual competency assessments are completed in compliance with established guidelines in the ARC training system.

• May act as a trainer for department-specific curricula.

• Manage and evaluate workflow, distribution routes, and processes to ensure efficient and streamlined manufacturing processes to meet customer demand and required timelines in a cost-efficient manner. Participate in documenting, investigating, troubleshooting, communicating, and preventing recurrence of department problems, concerns, and complaints.

• Lead suspect product department investigations.

• May be responsible for tracking, trending, and analysis of laboratory data and the generation of reports.

• Perform supervisory review of documents.

• Serve as a departmental expert on the applicable computer systems.

• Responsible for the accuracy of computer and physical blood component inventories.

The aforementioned responsibilities of the position describe the general nature and level of work and are not an exhaustive list.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Minimum 5 years of related experience with laboratory experience, or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.

• 3 years of supervisory or management experience.

• Good communication and computer skills are required.

• Knowledge of blood products and supplies and the ability to interact with diverse customers, is required.

• Must meet state and CLIA requirements.

• Ability to use a wide variety of lab/medical equipment.

Physical Requirements:

Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Frequently lift and/or move objects 10-50 lbs unassisted. Frequently required to push carts weighing up to 100 pounds on flat flooring or ramps. Frequently required to stand for long periods of time, walk, stoop, kneel or crouch. Occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus. Able to withstand temperatures in a typical blood banking environment including refrigerators and freezers. Position may require climbing of step ladders. Operational flexibility is required to meet sudden and unpredictable needs.

Benefits for You:

As a mission-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive package includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans

• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts

• PTO: Starting at 15 days a year, based on the type of job and tenure

• Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprise of six core holidays and five floating holidays

• 401K with up to 6% match

• Paid Family Leave

• Employee Assistance

• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term

• Service Awards and recognition