Manufacturing Operations Manager
operations › Manufacturing Operations · · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages a biopharmaceutical manufacturing team and operations across upstream or downstream production processes.
Median pay · United States · annual
$117,944 USD
▲ +40.6% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Manages a biopharmaceutical manufacturing team and operations across upstream or downstream production processes. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Manages the manufacturing operations of a department or unit, responsible for its operating budget, output, and cost performance.
- Leads first-line supervisors and skilled professionals, evaluating trends across shifts and areas to reallocate capacity and address diverse operational issues.
- Incorporates plant safety, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, and cost-control programs into the department's manufacturing processes.
- Initiates and prioritizes continuous-improvement projects (Lean/Six Sigma) targeting throughput, yield, and OEE for the department.
- Leads the departmental team on customer/order-driven priorities, balancing schedule attainment against quality and cost.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies departmental operations management, budgeting, and CI methods (Lean/Six Sigma) to run a production department.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Handles diverse operational issues and evaluates trends across shifts/areas to reallocate capacity and prioritize improvements.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads functional/customer-driven teams; coordinates across support functions and up to plant leadership.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ years managing production professionals and operating budgets.
Skills at this level
- Production line and equipment operations
- — Directs the setup, operation, changeover, and shutdown of manufacturing machinery and production lines so that output is produced safely and to the manufacturing file.
- Machinery maintenance and downtime management
- — Identifies mechanical issues on production equipment, drives basic repairs and preventive routines, and minimizes line downtime to protect schedule attainment.
- In-process quality control
- — Ensures checks and tests are performed during production against the manufacturing file and embeds quality-assurance requirements into how the floor operates.
- Manufacturing safety and regulatory compliance
- — Incorporates operational safety and industry regulatory requirements into manufacturing processes and holds the floor accountable to them shift by shift.
- Production scheduling and schedule attainment
- — Maintains production schedules by sequencing work, balancing lines, and allocating crew and equipment to hold delivery commitments.
- Continuous improvement (Lean / Six Sigma)
- — Applies process-improvement methods to raise throughput, yield, and OEE and standardizes the resulting fixes into work instructions across the operation.
- Cost control in manufacturing
- — Embeds cost-control policies and programs into production processes, managing scrap, labor, and downtime against operating targets.
- Operating budget management
- — Owns and manages the department or plant operating budget, controlling manufacturing spend and capital requests against output performance.
- Production team leadership and development
- — Leads supervisors, lead hands, and operators — training, cross-skilling, and coaching to build floor capability and reduce single-point dependencies.
- Operational performance metrics management
- — Sets and cascades manufacturing performance metrics (output, uptime, scrap, OEE) and holds teams accountable to them.
- Multi-site P&L management
- — Holds financial accountability across multiple manufacturing facilities, owning full P&L as the dividing line for top-of-ladder operations roles.
- Manufacturing operations strategy
- — Aligns manufacturing operations — network footprint, capacity investment, and automation roadmap — with the company's strategic objectives across sites.
- MOM/ERP systems for production
- — Uses Manufacturing Operations Management and ERP (SAP, Oracle) systems to plan, execute, and track production, inventory, and shop-floor performance.
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