Manager, Sterile Manufacturing

Location : Houston, TX

Posted : August 28, 2025

Job Type : Full Time

Req# 2025-4950

Manufacturing

Position Summary

The Manager of Sterile Manufacturing ensures efficient, compliant production of sterile medications, leading operations from supply to release while maintaining regulatory standards. This role drives process improvements, mentors team members, and fosters collaboration to support Empower's mission of expanding access to quality, affordable medications.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages sterile manufacturing operations, including material processing, equipment sterilization, aseptic filtration, filling, and cleaning, while overseeing the injectable value stream from supply to release and ensuring compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Pharmacopeia (USP) standards.
• Leads daily operations, monitors inventory with Supply Chain, prepares production reports, and drives cost, budgeting, and efficiency improvements through sound technical and management practices.
• Conducts deviation investigations, implements corrective actions, drives continuous process improvements, and collaborates with Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Facilities to resolve manufacturing issues.
• Develops and ensures compliance with Standard Operating Procedures, trains teams on current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and safety, and supports validation of processes and equipment.
• Mentors and evaluates team members, manages schedules, fosters a collaborative culture, and partners with leadership to address staffing needs and recruitment efforts.

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel in order to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The employee is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

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Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications. Learn more :