Senior Production Supervisor - Days

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 
About the role: 
The Cardiac Diagnostics services team in Arden Hills is looking for a First Shift Senior Production Supervisor to join their team. The core hours of this shift are: 6am-2pm. The Senior Production Supervisor will lead a diverse team of direct labor employees in safely producing high quality medical devices and equipment for the customer – directly impacting patients’ lives. In this role, you will have the opportunity to grow your leadership skills as you lead, coach, and mentor the production and support team creating a culture of engagement and continuous improvement. In addition to daily execution of line performance, you will ensure your team meets safety, quality, service and cost goals.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Produce high quality products, safely, on time for the customer at the lowest cost
• Facilitate and partner with a cross functional production team of production, quality and manufacturing engineering team members to achieve annual safety, quality, service and cost goals while maintaining a high engagement & high-performance culture
• Identify customer requirements to deliver the right products at the right time
• Be responsive & flexible to customer demands
• Achieve & exceed product cost goals
• Support new product development readiness activities for the line team
• Repackage/relabeling products to the highest quality standards and ensure compliance to all policies and regulations
• Promote safety, quality & compliance among the team while maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices
• Foster teamwork and enable a culture of Operational Excellence throughout the entire cross-functional team
• Ensure effective two-way communication between the production line team and cross-functional support teams
• Manage, motivate, develop, and involve product builders through coaching and performance management
• Embed the company values through demonstration & recognition of individual & team behaviors
• Utilize production area planning tools to ensure all resources are in place to achieve team commitments such as Direct Labor Staffing, Equipment Capacity, Support Team, and Space
• Ensure product builder training is effective & efficient and maintain training versatility across entire team
• Utilize leader standard work to ensure lines are meeting standards and escalate appropriately
• Lead & create team engagement around continuous improvement goals for safety, quality, service, cost and space through the utilization of lean and operational excellence tools and best practices
• Benchmark and share best practices
• Partner with materials management team for build planning and material delivery systems and tools
• Analyze build plan requirements and provide forward looking monthly production commitments
• Anticipate requirements and position resources to meet & exceed the customer needs
• Provide appropriate input into the long-term planning of the production area

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Minimum of 5 years manufacturing experience
• Minimum of 3 years of supervisor/management experience
• Solid computer skills required including Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated Lean tools/systems/Continuous Improvement experience – see it, own it, do it
• Able to support and lead a production team working 1st shift hours 6am-2pm

 

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Experience in a regulated environment or the medical device industry
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Ability to be flexible and agile
• Strong communicator
• Self-starter, self-directed

Requisition ID: 572734

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement.  The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safet