MSAT Manager

Overview

Are you a hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex manufacturing challenges, developing high-performing technical teams, and improving chemical manufacturing processes? 

Bio-Rad is seeking a Manufacturing Science & Technology (MSAT) Manager to provide technical leadership for its Richmond Chemical Manufacturing plant. The facility manufactures specialized life science products, including process chromatography resins, liquid buffers, monomer solutions, oils, and other critical materials supporting customers worldwide. 

As a key member of the Site Leadership Team, reporting to the site head, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and maintenance professionals responsible for strengthening process capability, equipment reliability, and overall manufacturing performance. 

You will play a critical role in solving complex manufacturing problems, improving existing processes, supporting new product and technology transfers, enabling capital investments, and building the technical capabilities required for the site's future. 

The ideal candidate brings formal chemistry education, hands-on industry experience applying chemistry in a biotech or life science manufacturing setting, or both, with a track record of troubleshooting chemical processes, supporting process development and scale-up, and driving process improvement. 

This is an opportunity for a leader who is equally comfortable on the manufacturing floor solving today's problems and developing the longer-term technology, reliability, and manufacturing capability roadmap for the site. 

How You’ll Make an Impact:

Technical Leadership & Manufacturing Excellence 

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and maintenance professionals, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. 
• Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting complex manufacturing processes and eliminating recurring production and equipment challenges. 
• Drive measurable improvements in process capability, robustness, yield, cycle time, equipment reliability, manufacturing lead time, and operational efficiency. 
• Identify and address sources of process variability, manufacturing losses, and technical constraints affecting quality, cost, and product availability. 
• Establish strong technical standards, engineering practices, and structured problem-solving disciplines across the site. 
• Partner closely with Operations, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain, R&D, and other functions to support safe, compliant, reliable, and predictable manufacturing operations. 

Process Technology, Scale-Up & Innovation 

• Provide technical leadership for chemical manufacturing processes, including process characterization, optimization, scale-up, and technology improvement. 
• Partner with R&D and Product Management on new product introductions and technology transfers, ensuring manufacturability, process capability, equipment readiness, successful scale-up, and sustainable transfer into routine manufacturing. 
• Apply data-driven and structured problem-solving methods to improve process understanding and manufacturing performance. 
• Identify and implement opportunities for process optimization, automation, process control, and manufacturing technology improvements. 
• Lead technical evaluations of new equipment, materials, processes, and technologies that improve manufacturing capability, capacity, quality, and cost. 
• Support process validation, equipment qualification, change control, material substitutions, and product and process lifecycle improvements.

Equipment Reliability & Maintenance Excellence 

• Provide leadership for maintenance, calibration, equipment qualification, and engineering support systems. 
• Strengthen equipment reliability through effective preventive maintenance, failure analysis, and equipment lifecycle management. 
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance to reduce recurring equipment failures and unplanned downtime. 
• Establish and monitor meaningful metrics to improve equipment reliability and maintenance effectiveness. 
• Build a proactive reliability culture aligned with manufacturing and business priorities. 

Capital Projects & Manufacturing Strategy 

• Provide technical leadership in the prioritization and execution of the site's capital investment portfolio. 
• Lead significant engineering and capital projects from concept and technical evaluation through installation, qualification, startup, and operational handoff. 
• Ensure projects meet technical requirements and deliver against approved scope, schedule, budget, and business objectives. 
• Contribute to the site's longer-term manufacturing technology, equipment, infrastructure, capacity, and capability roadmap. 
• Identify opportunities to expand capacity, improve productivity, reduce manufacturing cost, and strengthen long-term manufacturing capability. 

What You Bring: 

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Materials Science, or a related scientific discipline required. 
• Master's degree or PhD preferred. 

Experience 

• 8+ years of progressive technical experience in manufacturing science and technology, process engineering, process development, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical function within chemical, life science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or similar process manufacturing environments. 
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing scientists, engineers, technical professionals, and/or maintenance teams. 
• Demonstrated success solving complex manufacturing problems and delivering measurable improvements in process capability, yield, cycle time, reliability, quality, capacity, or manufacturing cost. 
• Strong experience with chemical or process manufacturing operations, including process optimization, scale-up, and technical troubleshooting. 
• Experience supporting new product introduction, technology transfer, manufacturing scale-up, or commercialization. 
• Experience leading or supporting capital projects, equipment installations, and manufacturing technology improvements. 
• Experience working in regulated or quality-system-controlled manufacturing environments, with knowledge of process validation, equipment qualification, change control, and EHS requirements. 
• Technical & Leadership Capabilities 
• Strong understanding of chemical manufacturing processes, process science, process engineering principles, and manufacturing technologies. 
• Experience applying structured problem-solving, statistical, and continuous-improvement methods to complex manufacturing challenges.

Location: This position must be based in Richmond, CA and requires the employee to be located within commuting distance of the office.

Total Rewards Package: At Bio-Rad, we’re empowered by our purpose and recognize that our employees are as well. That’s why we offer a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Program that provides value, quality, and inclusivity while satisfying the diverse needs of our evolving workforce. Bio-Rad's robust offerings serve to enrich the overall health, wealth, and wellbeing of our employees and their families through the various stages of an employee’s work and life cycle.

Benefits: We’re proud to offer a variety of options, including competitive medical plans for you and your family, free HSA funds, a new fertility offering with stipend, group life and disability,  paid parental leave, 401k plus profit sharing, an employee stock purchase program, a new upgraded and streamlined mental health platform, extensive learning and development opportunities, education benefits, student debt relief program, pet insurance, wellness challenges and support, paid time off, Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s), and more! 

Compensation: The estimated base salary range for this position is $157,400 to $216,400 at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if applicable, and is based on several factors we believe fairly and accurately impact compensation, including geographic location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other job permitted factors. This position is eligible for a variable annual bonus, which is dependent upon achievement of your individual objectives and Company performance.

Who We Are: For 70 years, Bio-Rad has focused on advancing the discovery process and transforming the fields of science and healthcare. As one of the top five life science companies, we are a global leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of high-quality research and clinical diagnostic products. We help people everywhere live longer, healthier lives. Bio-Rad offers a unique employee experience with collaborative teams that span the globe. Here, you are supported by leadership to build your career and are empowered to drive change that makes an impact you can see.  

EEO Statement: Bio-Rad is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and we welcome candidates of all backgrounds. Veterans, people with physical or mental disabilities, and people of all race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin and citizenship status are encouraged to apply.

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