Use Your Power for Purpose
Our breakthroughs would not reach the hands of patients without our dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing team. We rely on agile members who understand the critical impact of their role in Pfizer's mission. Patients need colleagues like you who take pride in their work and continuously strive to improve outcomes. Your efforts ensure that patients and physicians have timely access to the medicines they need.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
Provide supervision to hourly direct reports. Motivate personnel by setting high standards, encourage teamwork. Clear, unambiguous communication is critical.
Ensure a safe work environment. Ability to identify, evaluate, and correct potential hazards in the workplace is essential.
Coordinate, schedule, and participate in daily activities of cGMP production in the manufacturing area to meet supply chain needs.
Must be flexible to work rotating shifts to support 24/7 operation. Ensure that product quality is maintained through all phases of commercial production including operational parameters of manufacturing equipment, personnel activities, batch record/processing dynamics, and integrated utilities to identify and resolve quality risk to commercial manufacturing. General knowledge of scientific principles, production equipment and related procedures.
Aid in investigations. Responsible for the adherence to established policies, procedures, and practices. Participate in inspections and cGMP and Quality decisions effecting short term production
Primary contact for all personnel issues occurring within the department. Responsible for development plans and personnel reviews. Make initial decisions encompassing personnel issues, disciplinary actions, career advancement, educational assistance, Emergency situations, including injured employees, facility issues, and inclement weather.
Review completed batch records. Develop training material, update curricula, close training gaps, support the training of new supervisors.
Advise management of non-conformance issues and opportunities for continuous improvement
Provide input on primary decisions on cGMP related documents developed or revised.
Articulate challenges and solutions to technical and non-technical peers and to department management.
Provide technical guidance and act as a departmental liaison with primary support groups.
Short range planning includes scheduling daily and weekly operations and staff. Longer range planning concerns facilities shutdowns and preventive maintenance.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business or Science with a minimum of 2+ years of experience and 1+ years of demonstrated leadership capability in a pharmaceutical and/or manufacturing environment, OR Master's degree with some experience and 1+ years of demonstrated leadership capability in a pharmaceutical and/or manufacturing environment, OR Associate's Degree with a minimum of 6+ years of experience and 3+ years demonstrated leadership capability in a pharmaceutical and/or manufacturing environment, OR High School Diploma with a minimum 8+ years of experience and 5+ years demonstrated leadership capability in a pharmaceutical and/or manufacturing environment
Working knowledge of vaccine or biotechnology product manufacturing in a cGMP environment. Including a working knowledge of fermentation, purification, centrifugation, homogenization, Ultrafiltration and Diafiltration (UF/DF), aseptic techniques and other filtration processes.
Physical / Mental requirements
Requires the moving of heavy equipment and the ability to lift ~40 pounds.
Strong problem-solving skills in a structured environment
Non-Standard work schedule, travel or environment requirements
Supports a 24/7 facility. 3rd Shift 10:00PM-6:30AM.
Ability to support operations and training in other shifts when needed.
Ability to work 1st shift until GMP operations start.
Other job details
Last day to apply: August 1st, 2025
Employee Referral Bonus eligible
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $80,300.00 to $133,900.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 10.0% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life's moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider's name, address and the @type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
Manufacturing
LI-PFE
