VBA - Concatenated data in one cell; delete entire row when 1 piece of info is not present

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I run a report that displays a list of employees with all the information associated with their employment record. One of the things on there is a concatenated list of all their Employee Roles, with a Valid To and From date. For example, if the list of possible Roles is as follows:
  • Role 1
  • Role 1 – trainer
  • Role 2
  • Role 2 – trainer
  • Role 3
  • Role 3 – trainer
  • Trainee employee
  • Former employee
  • Probationary employee
And there’s an employee who is checked off as Role 1, Role 1 – trainer, Role 2, and they used to be Role 3, the information will display in one cell as the following:
  • Role 1 – 1/1/2020 to N/A;Role 1 – trainer – 1/1/2020;Role 2 – 1/1/2020 to N/A;Role 3 – 1/1/2020 to 28/2/2020
For the report I’m using, I only want to be able to see a list of Active employees in Role 1 (so, not including people who have retired from Role 1 but are still active in other Roles).

I have the following piece of code which allows me to remove from the list anyone does not have Role 1 in their record:

VBA Code:
Sub deleteifnotR1 ()

    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim lastRow As Long

    Set ws = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Employee Record")

    lastRow = ws.Range("E" & ws.Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

    Set rng = ws.Range("E1:E" & lastRow)

    'filter and delete all but header row
    With rng
        .AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:="<>*Role 1*"
        lr = Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
        If lr > 1 Then
         Range("D2:D" & lr).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).EntireRow.Delete
        End If
    End With

    ' turn off the filters
    ws.AutoFilterMode = False
End Sub

The problem with this is that it will still leave me with a list of Former employees, and active employees who may have retired from Role 1, but are still Role 3 etc.

In thinking about how to fix this, I’ve had two ideas – firstly, is it possible to un-concatenate this data? For example, to insert new columns across the top with all the different possible roles, and then have a macro that identifies when someone has “Role 1 – trainer” in their record and move that data over to the correct column? Then I could use a variation of the code above to delete anyone who doesn’t have “N/A” in the Role 1 column.

Alternatively, is it possible to amend the following line:

VBA Code:
 .AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:="<>*Role 1*"

To search in some way for “Role 1 – *ANY DATE* to N/A”? This would filter out both former employees, and employees who have retired from Role 1 but nothing else.

(Ideally I would just rework the report rather than having to fix it after the fact, but I don’t have access to that part of our system, and the people that do aren’t willing to do any development on it).

Thanks in advance for your help.
 

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How about using the below in the Criteria filter ?

Criteria1:="Role 1 – *?/*?/???? to N/A"
 
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