· Lead, coach, and develop a team of chemists, technicians, and production employees.
· Set daily priorities and allocate resources to meet production schedules and customer commitments.
· Work alongside the team in chemical synthesis, purification, packaging, material handling, and batch execution.
· Operate and troubleshoot reactors, vessels, filtration systems, distillation equipment, ovens, rotovaps, and related process equipment.
· Support manufacturing processes such as polymerization, esterification, distillation, extraction, filtration, chromatography, crystallization, and vacuum drying.
· Ensure work is completed safely and in accordance with batch records, SOPs, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
· Maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready production documentation.
· Lead safety investigations, corrective actions, equipment reliability efforts, and continuous improvement projects.
· Monitor and improve safety, quality, throughput, yield, delivery, inventory, and cost performance.
· Collaborate across functions to support production planning, process optimization, scale-up, technology transfer, and new product introductions.