Global contract development and manufacturing organisation Aesica has promoted Catherine Dick to the new role of Site Manufacturing Manager at its Cramlington site. She will take responsibility for ensuring that all manufacturing is performed as planned from product introduction through all aspects of the manufacturing process. This includes the completion of manufacturing work on approximately four new products, at multiple stages of development, due to be brought on to the Cramlington site next year.
Dick joined Aesica in 2007 as the site’s Quality Manager. In 2010, she was promoted to Head of Quality for UK API, responsible for the quality and regulatory compliance of all products manufactured across the Cramlington and Queenborough sites. Recently, she headed up the latest Queenborough API MHRA site inspection.
Mark Dawson will now become Head of Quality at Cramlington. With over 25 years’ experience in the API industry, he has held various roles at the site within the quality control, EH&S and warehousing departments. In his most recent role, he spent 13 years as part of the production management team responsible for the day-to-day running of the process plants on the Cramlington site.
The company is also set to recruit three new chemists, a site engineering manager and an analytical technology officer.