Full-Time
Manufacturing Manager
Updated on 9/3/2026
ABEC
501-1,000 employees
Integrated bioprocessing equipment and services.
No salary listed
Bethlehem, PA, USA
In Person
Travel is required as needed.
Bachelor's
 Manufacturing & Production Operations |
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- A Bachelor's degree is required.
- Three to five years of supervisory or leadership experience in a manufacturing environment is required.
- Strong understanding of production processes, capacity planning, and equipment utilization is required.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings is required.
- Ability to train and motivate employees to produce quality products, improve key performance indicators, and increase plant profitability is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, professional presentation, and negotiation skills are required.
- Ability to set priorities independently and remain flexible and innovative is required.
- Business acumen and facilitation skills are required.
- Good understanding of lean manufacturing principles is required.
- Experience with high-volume manufacturing operations is required.
- Strong organization and planning skills are required.
- Ability to stand and walk for long periods throughout the facility is required.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds is required.
- Fluent written and spoken English is required.
- Authorization to work in the United States is required.
- Own manufacturing output by ensuring production runs efficiently, stays on schedule, and meets customer expectations.
- Adjust staffing, equipment, and workflows to maintain operational performance.
- Maintain visibility on the manufacturing floor and build trust and engagement across shifts.
- Champion Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement initiatives to improve productivity, reduce waste, and elevate quality.
- Analyze metrics and performance data to identify opportunities and implement lasting improvements.
- Lead solutions to operational challenges that improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Create a positive and accountable work environment focused on safety, collaboration, and performance.
- Recognize and motivate employees to meet key performance indicators and exceed expectations.
- Partner with Quality teams to maintain standards and resolve issues.
- Lead a safety-first culture by ensuring compliance, conducting training, and investigating incidents.
- Uphold compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
- Work cross-functionally to solve problems and improve business performance.
- Set departmental goals and execute plans aligned with organizational objectives.
- Oversee daily operations, assign work, and ensure processes run smoothly and effectively.
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, or Continuous Improvement.
- A technical or engineering degree.
- Prior Lean or Six Sigma experience.
- Awareness of and prior experience implementing Continuous Improvement.
ABEC provides integrated biopharmaceutical manufacturing solutions and services. It supports vaccine and antibody production with bioprocess engineering, equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs, plus design and build of complete bioprocess lines. It offers customized single-use disposable containers, especially Custom Single Run (CSR) products, leveraging 45+ years of design experience. Its goal is to help clients scale manufacturing faster and at lower costs through in-house engineering, global capacity, and long-term partnerships.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Founded
1974
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- ABEC launched ATB in March 2025, and the 2026 brief emphasizes closed automation.
- Its May 2026 Process Sciences expansion targets accelerated development for biopharmaceutical manufacturers.
- Single-use bioprocessing demand keeps expanding; Mordor projects 14.2% CAGR through 2031.
What critics are saying
- ABEC's 2025 GOOD Meat settlement followed a $4.4 million judgment after a 2023 payment dispute.
- Thermo Fisher, Sartorius, Cytiva, and Merck dominate single-use bioprocessing, squeezing ABEC's pricing power.
- Another GOOD Meat-sized default erases years of engineering margin and threatens ABEC's model.
What makes ABEC unique
- ABEC's August 2026 footprint spans five facilities across Ireland, Missouri, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
- Its CSR platform reaches 6,000 liters, the largest documented single-use mammalian-culture scale in 2026.
- ABEC's May 2026 Process Sciences expansion deepens modeling, testing, and bioprocess optimization support.
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Paid Vacation
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Company paid life insurance
401(k) Company Match
401(k) Retirement Plan
College tuition benefit program
Employee Referral Program
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↑ 13%ABEC, a global leader in engineered solutions and services for biotechnology manufacturing, has introduced its Advanced Therapy Bioreactor (ATB(TM), a revolutionary platform focused on transforming cell expansion for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs).
Eat Just and its cultivated meat subsidiary GOOD Meat have reached an agreement in principle to settle their legal dispute* with bioreactor supplier ABEC, according to court documents, although the matter has not yet reached a final resolution.In a letter to Judge Wendy Beetlestone dated February 6, attorneys for both parties explained that they “have engaged in serious settlement negotiations over the past few months and have reached an agreement in principle regarding the framework for a settlement agreement and the material terms.“However, due to the complex nature of the claims, defenses, and counterclaims,” they added, “the parties require additional time to draft a binding agreement.”In a court order filed on February 7, Judge Beetlestone agreed to their request for the court to appoint a magistrate judge as settlement master to facilitate a final resolution, but rejected their request for a 30-day stay on the litigation and all case deadlines.Neither party has responded to a request for comment from AgFunderNews.What is the case about?The legal dispute began in March 2023 when ABEC filed a lawsuit accusing GOOD Meat of breach of contract by failing to pay its bills on time.According to ABEC, GOOD Meat owed $62,649,231.79 for work ABEC had already completed. Eat Just, in turn, claimed that ABEC had breached the terms of their contract.ABEC, which had been working with GOOD Meat on pilot cultivated chicken facilities in California and Singapore, signed an agreement with the startup in August 2021. Under the seven-year deal, ABEC would design, manufacture, install and commission multiple 250,000-liter vessels— “the largest known bioreactors for avian and mammalian cell culture”—for a large-scale facility in the US.Given “financing hurdles,” by November 2022, Eat Just/GOOD Meat “recommended the evaluation of a phased approach, creating five 125,000-L bioreactors instead of four 250,000-L bioreactors,” and the two started corresponding over amendments to their agreement.By March 2023, ABEC said it had had no choice but to take legal action over unpaid bills. Eat Just/GOOD Meat responded by filing a series of counterclaims, arguing that the parties never formally ratified amendments to their original agreement, and that ABEC had simply proceeded as if they had.Speaking to AgFunderNews last year, Eat Just founder and CEO Josh Tetrick said he was “not attempting to raise money for a large-scale cultivated meat facility right now” and was instead focusing on process development at the firm’s plant in Alameda, California, and working on new cell lines he claimed would enable more efficient large-scale production.*The case is ABEC, Inc. v. Eat Just, Inc
Cultivated meat startup GOOD Meat has upped the ante in its increasingly ugly legal dispute with bioreactor specialist ABEC over alleged nonpayment of bills. GOOD has filed a series of counterclaims alleging that ABEC breached the terms of their contract and that GOOD Meat is in fact the wronged party. The litigation began in March 2023 when ABEC filed a lawsuit accusing GOOD Meat (a wholly owned subsidiary of Eat Just) of breach of contract by failing to pay its bills on time. ABEC, which had been working with GOOD Meat on pilot cultivated chicken facilities in California and Singapore, signed an agreement with the startup in August 2021. Under the seven-year deal, ABEC would design, manufacture, install and commission multiple 250,000-liter vessels— “the largest known bioreactors for avian and mammalian cell culture”—for a large-scale facility in the US with the capacity to produce up to 30 million pounds of meat
Eat Just—like Beyond Meat—is often seen as a proxy for the broader alternative protein space, regarded by some as a visionary foodtech pioneer attempting to disrupt two vast addressable markets (meat, eggs) and by other less charitable observers as a “house of cards built on one individual’s ability to separate people from their money.”. Regardless of where you sit on this spectrum, says one foodtech investor we spoke to this week, it would be “pretty catastrophic” for the category if either of these loss-making firms were to crash and burn, so a lot is riding on their performance in the coming months. So how should we view Eat Just, and can Tetrick—”one of the best capital-raisers in the business“— raise the funds to take cultivated meat from a loss-making novelty to a commercially viable alternative to animal agriculture?
Malcolm joins KPC from ABEC Inc, where he led the development of their European Services Business and contributed to their global capital project expansion.