Sr Manager, MS&T - TAPI

Who we are

TAPI is the leading international supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). With the industry's broadest portfolio including over 350 API products. We are the go-to global supplier for APIs, supporting 80% of top 50 global pharmaceutical companies. We are proud of our reliable history in the generic API industry dating back over 80 years, and the fact we are considered to be one of the most trusted API suppliers, these enable TAPI to lead the industry, based on our experience, expertise, technologies, and exceptional customer service.
Our employees are at the core of our success.  Our Headquartered is in Israel, TAPI employs more than 4,000 professionals at 14  sites worldwide. Our state-of-the-art production facilities are located in Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Israel, Mexico and India. Our significant ongoing investment in R&D generates a steady flow of APIs, enabling timely introduction of new products to market.

How you’ll spend your day

• Responsible on-Site product transfer & New Product transfer, scale-up, proposals, Capex evaluations & Process Engineering calculations
• Improvement in the yield, efficiency and cost effectiveness of developed API’s by introducing new Technologies and further development of process fine tuning
• Extensive experience in API manufacturing with a deep understanding on Scale-up.
• Troubleshooting the plant related problems, to overcome the process related difficulties for smooth production
• Contribute novel ideas by way of participation during technical discussion with superiors/ Colleagues
• Cycle time reduction, Capacity enhancement and making capacity increase proposals with the support of site CFT members/ leads.
• Ability to manage 4-5 Engineers coaching, career development and build high performing, engaged and effective teams through motivation and inspiration
• Person will be expected to support chemistry projects to develop the process engineering knowledge and lead the transfer from lab to scale-up lab and further to production scale
• Experience on handling CDMO products will be an advantage
• Person will have demonstrated expertise in the scale-up and process understanding of chemical process unit operations in the manufacture of APIs, intermediates and raw materials. Experience in Quality by Design, process safety, technology transfer and commercial production would be advantageous.
• Person will be responsible to execute trial and validation batches and support in related activities at plant in the time of scale up
• In-depth, hands-on expertise and up-to-date knowledge of a wide range of chemistry unit operations such as reactions, distillation, separation, filtration and drying.
• Strong scientific track record, ability to handle several projects in different stages of development at the same time.
• Person will be responsible to Investigate and troubleshoot in case of issues in scale up/validation and support troubleshooting activities in case of issues in scale up/validation batches
• Responsible to use process modelling tools like Dyno Chem, VISMIX for reaction, crystallization, filtration, solubility and mixing studies
• Good knowledge on solvent recovery & recycle by using latest technologies etc

Your experience and qualifications

• B. Tech/ M. Tech Chemical (Regular from reputed Institute)
• 14-16 Years experience & 5 years in people management
• Excellent communication skills to interact internally with project teams and externally with customers 
• Good project management and supervisory skills.
• Collaboration and influencing skills to build partnerships with the other disciplines, similar groups, Conscientious with a can-do attitude and thorough attention to detail. 
• A team player & Competent in the use of key process engineering and modelling software packages
• Equivalent experience in a Process, Synthetic Chemistry or Manufacturing environment. 
• Experience in working to GMP.
• Experience in the application of Process Safety to the design of chemical processes

Reports To

Associate Director, MS&T