Production Manager
2 weeks ago
Company Overview:
Nulixir, an early-stage start-up, is a business-to-business (B2B) biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and licenses intellectual property (IP) for smart nanocarriers, called nanovesicles, which optimize the performance of functional ingredients in food & beverage products. Nulixir is revolutionizing this space shaping the future of intelligent food and nutrition. This patented technology has applications across multiple verticals in food and beverage (e.g., nootropics, energy stimulants, vitamins, probiotics, protein, etc.).
Founded in 2019, the company brought together a team of CPG leaders, scientists, US attorneys, and nutritionists to overcome long-standing challenges in the Food and Beverage Industry. The firm’s founder has extensive experience in the development of nanocarriers for cancer therapeutics.
In the past-year, Nulixir sales have grown ~5x with strong interest from small, mid-size and large CPG companies to partner with Nulixir and incorporate the technology in their products. Nulixir boasts an impressive board of senior executives from companies like Pepsi, Danone, Paine, Schwartz Partners, etc. The company currently has 20+ employees with a stellar executive team who come from various backgrounds.
Position Overview:
Nulixir is looking for a highly qualified and experienced professional to lead Nulixir’s in-house end-to-end manufacturing operations. You will partner closely with Product Development, Sales, and Procurement functions to deliver premium quality product to our B2B customers in a timely and cost-efficient manner as well as continuously identify ways to improve our manufacturing operations as we scale-up over time.
You should be highly experienced in Food & Beverage or Pharma manufacturing operations especially. The ideal candidate has immense intellectual curiosity, operations rigor, quality-focus mindset, metrics driven approach, and strong technical and quality control background. In this role, you will directly report to the Head of Operations.
In this important role, you will be responsible for:
Oversee the day-to-day operations of Nulixir’s only in-house manufacturing operations located in Austin including developing a daily production plan and ensuring daily operations goals are realized
Manage a growing team of Production Operators (20+) and Engineers (3+)
Develop plans for all aspects of production including equipment purchases, staffing needs, work schedules, and material requirements
Design, implement, and manage production forecasting, capacity planning, and production scheduling based on prioritization of different customer orders in partnership with Commercial team and ensure orders are met in a timely fashion
Evaluate multiple scenarios during production planning for utilization of equipment and labor and ensure the right scenario is chosen along with robust back up plans
Ensure a healthy and safe manufacturing environment for all employees in compliance with federal and state regulations
Collaborate with procurement and supply chain to plan packaging materials inventory to ensure timely availability for production
Develop a thorough understanding of process flow and key controls of the manufacturing processes; use this knowledge along with daily observations of all areas of the operations facility to drive continuous improvement of throughput and yield
Design and implement new manufacturing processes and procedures to improve efficiency and reduce costs
Establish a system to monitor all variable and fixed costs (e.g., raw material, labor, utilities, etc.) linked to manufacturing in partnership with Finance
Design and implement SOPs providing production instruction for all formulations including make-to-stock and made-to-order runs
Establish a metrics-driven performance management system across cost, service, safety, quality; provide weekly report on performance across established metrics
Build a robust preventative maintenance plan for all manufacturing equipment and order new parts in timely fashion to minimize downtime driven by equipment issues
Develop internal talent with effective coaching, feedback, and individual development plans and ensure multiple employees are trained across manufacturing process to drive consistency in manufacturing output and minimize dependency on individuals
Create and implement critical role succession plans
Devise strategy to scale up operations and add new lines
Define quality standards (including both quality control and quality assurance) across our manufacturing (bench top to large scale) and setting up systems and processes to meet those standards
Establish robust metrics-driven system to measure quality of each batch and develop processes to meet defined goals for these metrics (e.g., particle size, PH, etc.)
Develop systems and capabilities to meet required regulatory and labeling requirements for customers
Lead processes to obtain GMP, Organic, and other relevant certifications for Nulixir’s manufacturing facility
Maintain relevant quality and regulatory certification on an annual basis
Relevant Job experiences, skills, and key requirements for this role:
A minimum of 8+ years of experience in manufacturing operations with at least 2+ years of that experience in food & beverage, food B2B, or other industries with adjacent manufacturing processes
Worked in a variety of manufacturing roles, including quality control, production, maintenance, purchasing, inventory management and logistics
Any relevant certifications related to manufacturing operations and / or quality control preferred but not a requirement
Experience leading end-to-end manufacturing operations for a single or multiple facilities
Establishing new manufacturing systems, processes, and operations (e.g., experience in setting up new facilities)
Overseeing key vendor and 3rd party relationships
Strong experience in establishing and maintaining a world-class quality organization within food and beverage
Training and knowledge of metrics and data-driven approach to managing performance and decision-making process to evaluate manufacturing performance across quality, safety, cost and service
Experience with rapidly growing, fast paced businesses and / or start-up experience; need to have a good understanding of start-up culture and mentality
Collaborative work style with colleagues across functions, partners, and external support resources to analyze and draw actionable conclusions that impact manufacturing operations and related costs
Strong research, and data analysis skills with ability to connect the dots, draw insights and make recommendations.
Ability to clearly communicate findings and to support conclusions and recommendations.
Self-motivated, organized, and resilient – with ability to define goals, prioritize workplans and overcome obstacles.
Experience in managing proprietary and confidential product portfolios with utmost discretion
Comfortable working at both a strategic and tactical level
Strong verbal and written communication and reporting skills
Ability to find creative solutions to complex problems
Entrepreneurial and self-starter
Thrives in an ambiguous environment with limited datapoints
Self-motivated, high energy and collaborative work style
Nulixirians' Culture
We recruit, promote, and reward based off of our five core values:
Sleeves Up - At Nulixir, we provide the autonomy and creativity needed to own your role, iterate where needed and drive impact on a massive scale.
100% Transparency - Nulixir is passionate about open feedback at all levels of the company. This allows us to fail fast, create in real time and build an open company culture.
Be Defiantly Great - We are defiant, that’s in our lifeblood, we accomplish what other people think are impossible. Challenging the status quo is our lifeblood.
Unconditional Empathy - Our customers are real people with real business needs, and we are here to listen and tackle accordingly. If we care and respect each other, there is no challenge we can’t overcome.
Be the solution, not just the critic - take ownership and drive collaboration. We work together and we build together.
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