Job Description

Join our Production team as a Shift Manager at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play a key role in delivering our portfolio of active pharmaceutical ingredients addressing a wide population of patients. You will be responsible for providing active ingredients that meet the highest pharmaceutical standards in a GMP setting committed to safety, quality, and reliability


Our Shift Managers focus on leadership and people to ensure they deliver the best technical support to the production process and perform at high levels consistently. They lead teams through change and ensure a customer first approach.

Your Responsibilities

You will:

Develop training and knowledge competencies across production shift personnel maximising the appropriate skills and knowledge of the team to meet the needs of the business. Ensuring safe systems of work are followed at all times in the operational areas and that compliance with HSE policy and procedures is observed whilst encouraging proactive behaviours by shift team, e.g. situational and observational reporting. Ensuring all cGMP and site quality standards are adhered to, at all times. Adopt appropriate company standards to continuously track, meet and improve target Key Performance Indicators whilst ensuring a continuous flow of information across shifts and business areas Cooperate transversally with support functions in the delivery, for example, of agreed priorities, the preparation for internal/external audits, participation and leadership (as appropriate) of HSE and Quality investigations and in the execution of agreed actions (from CAPAs).

Our Company

EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active ingredient solutions to sustainably meet customers' and patients' needs around the world. We are a leading player in active pharmaceutical ingredients with approximately 200 products in our portfolio, offering a large span of technologies, while developing innovative molecules through our Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) activities.


Taking action for health by enabling access to essential therapies inspires our 3,450 people every day. With strong research and development capabilities and six manufacturing sites all located in Europe (Saint-Aubin-les-Elbeuf and Vertolaye in France, Brindisi in Italy, Frankfurt in Germany, Budapest in Hungary and Haverhill in the UK), EUROAPI ensures API manufacturing of the highest quality to supply customers in more than 80 countries.


EUROAPI is listed on Euronext Paris.


The EUROAPI Haverhill (UK) site has been established for forty years, located fifteen miles east of Cambridge and sixty miles north of London, within the golden triangle. It employs over 250 people and has built a strong reputation in Flow Chemistry, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Spray Drying and as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO). Haverhill is proud to house the world's largest, continuous production, pharmaceutical spray dryer and performs secondary packaging and release activities for oncology and rare disease medicines supporting global markets. The site also offers a contract testing and release facility within its laboratories.

Our Requirements

Proven experience in pharma or related industries such as chemicals and manufacturing Proven experience of managing and developing production teams First Aid Trained desirable Knowledge and experience in Lean principles Demonstrable experience of problem solving (familiar with using problem solving tools and their deployment in the workplace)

Your Benefits

Attractive Salary Competitive benefits Training & Development Open and friendly working environment

Culture & Values at EUROAPI

We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture enables career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values set out how we achieve our goals and help us "do it right".

Diversity & Inclusion

EUROAPI is committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement. We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.

We are Disability Confident - Committed

which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.

Environment, Social and Governance

We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow's challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.

Apply Today!

Find out more about this exciting opportunity, apply today or contact Marie Meekings.