Manufacturing Officer | Salary TBC DPE
hace 3 días
Cambridge
🚨 Manufacturing Officer 📍 Cambridge | Operations | Animal Health I’m hiring a Manufacturing Officer for a fast-growing animal health business that’s scaling quickly and doing genuinely meaningful work to reduce antibiotic use. This is a hands-on manufacturing and operations role, ideal for someone with a strong chemistry background who enjoys pace, responsibility, and being close to the action. 🧪 About the business This is a growing veterinary healthcare company developing innovative, sustainable products that improve animal health globally. The company is expanding its product portfolio and operational footprint, so the environment is fast-moving and change is constant. If you’re inspired by impactful work and comfortable operating in a scaling environment, this role will suit you well. 🛠 The role You’ll join the Operations team, working closely with the Head of Manufacturing and external manufacturing partners to ensure products are made to specification, on time, and at scale. 📦 Key responsibilities • Coordinate manufacturing activity with Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs), • Book production slots and manage purchase orders, • Monitor production schedules and finished goods delivery, • Manage raw material and packaging availability, • Oversee quality checks and ensure products meet specifications, • Maintain batch records and manufacturing documentation using ERP systems, • Act as the day-to-day contact for CMOs, resolving issues quickly, • Drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, and efficiency, • Support R&D with new product introductions and technical requirements, • Work with design and commercial teams on packaging, demand, and forecasting 🧠 Skills & experience Essential • Degree in Chemistry or closely related discipline, • Background in animal health, FMCG, or CPG, • Strong understanding of quality systems, • Comfortable in a fast-paced, scaling environment, • PhD in Chemistry or similar, • Experience working with CMOs, • Exposure to GMP or ISO environments, • Confident enough to keep operations moving when things get busy, • Calm under pressure and solutions-focused, • Genuinely motivated by the impact of the work, • Hands-on and commercially aware