Manufacturing Shift Lead (API)

AstraZeneca/Alexion Campus

College Park, Dublin

Full Time, Permanent (shift based)

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to make a difference? Join AstraZeneca, where everyone feels a personal connection to the people we impact. From our science labs to manufacturing at scale, we are committed to delivering at the highest quality. It’s inspiring and rewarding work, influencing every part of the product lifecycle to deliver life-changing medicines. Ultimately to make people’s lives better – from patients and their families to all of us in society!

Accountabilities:

As a key member of the Shift Production Team, you'll initially be providing technical support to ensure the design of AstraZeneca’s new Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing facility is safe, efficient, easily operable and fit-for-the-future. Drawing on your API manufacturing experience, you will drive operational readiness, ahead of manufacturing where you will lead a team of approximately 6 shift manufacturing operators in a state-of-the-art facility to produce API for commercial and clinical supply.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Minimum NFQ level 7 or equivalent in a scientific or engineering discipline (or able to demonstrate comparable proficiency).
• High level of manufacturing experience with skills to support planning, managing, and monitoring of major manufacturing production projects from concept to implementation.
• Leads trouble shooting activities to resolve existing problems, make complicated judgements and anticipate future manufacturing production developments.
• Employs prepared information to discuss, plan and help carry out improvement plans, priority setting, investigation reports, quality or performance improvement recommendations.
• Develops contacts across a range of departments and/or external groups acting as a plant representative.
• Supports ongoing management of change and coaches continuous improvement and development to own team.
• Ensures adequate supervision, instruction and training is provided.
• Ensures own work is compliant with Safety, Health, Environment standards and Good Manufacturing Practice.
• Data driven to evaluate process performance for the purpose of identifying required problem solving, improvements and opportunities.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Pharmaceutical manufacturing awareness, particularly of (API) Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients is highly desirable.
• GMP and regulatory knowledge/awareness is highly desirable.
• Awareness of Lean working principles. 
• Experience of utilising latest technology e.g. digital applications, to support autonomous manufacturing.

At AstraZeneca's Operations function, we are leading an exciting time of growth and evolution. We pioneer new approaches and processes across our sites, empowering our teams to foster a Lean mindset and sustainable practices. Every change we make is to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We are inspiring and credible leaders, ensuring everyone on our site has a platform and opportunity to speak up and share their ideas. We are the champions of Lean, ensuring our teams understand and embody the benefits it can bring.

Our manufacturing sites are environments of constant and rapid change. It's a place to expect the unexpected. There's rarely an obvious answer to the varied challenges we face, so it takes adaptability, flexibility and patience to thrive here. We know our sites well and we understand our team's individual strengths and passions. It powers us to ensure they are each in the right place and empowered to succeed. Our work helps give people with diseases a fighting chance. Every day is a challenge but that's what keeps us going. There's an indescribable buzz when we get to meet patients we have helped.

Call to Action:

Are you ready to be part of something bigger? To make a real difference in people's lives? Join us at AstraZeneca, where we are more than a place to work, but a home for our 'family' where you feel supported and can have fun whilst working on interesting challenges. Apply now!

Date Posted

10-Apr-2026

Closing Date

21-Apr-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.