Supervisor, Manufacturing

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Operations Supervisor is responsible for planning, organizing, and supervising daily production activities, and ensuring that products are delivered in accordance with Customer requirements, while complying with applicable company, quality, and regulatory standards. The supervisor will train and coach production employees in creating and sustaining a lean culture aligned with the company’s Vision, Mission and Values. By utilizing key leadership principles of respect, humility, and leading by example, the supervisor will create a positive work environment by engaging employees in the continuous improvement of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost initiatives.

What You’ll do as a Manufacturing Supervisor

• Ensures attainment of daily/weekly of production plan by ensuring communication between the cells / shifts, sharing best practices, prioritizing countermeasures among production cells and ensuring proper job performance of all team members.
• Drive attainment of and improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC) performance.
• Meets Customer needs through creative solutions. Responds with a sense of urgency and aligns activities, focusing on the needs and requirements of the Customer.
• Leads with proper adherence to quality system procedures, Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Ensures immediate response to abnormalities through identifying, documenting, and segregating nonconforming material.
• Monitors process flow; identifies solutions for flow interrupters and ensures immediate response to abnormalities and/or on signals while exhibiting a detailed understanding of processes and equipment.
• Monitors operational status on all equipment/tools including calibration and certification, escalates as needed.
• Facilitates a safety culture, performs safety audits to ensure proper use and condition of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), machines, and safe guards, trains individuals on safety procedures and expectations, leads  investigations of near misses / incidents and facilitates the implementation of safety and ergonomics improvements.
• Learns and teaches others on the basic lean principles and tools.
• Teaches, coaches, and leads problem solving methodologies and tools to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC) performance.
• Trains, audits, improves standard work, and implementing daily kaizen activities to meet SQDC objectives.
• Provides daily coaching of Team Leaders and Operators on job duties and explanations of the "why" behind Lean principles and tools.
• Executes, audits, and drives continuous improvement of 5S in department according to STERIS standards. 
• Champions idea generation system across department through providing support to team members in generating and implementing ideas. Ensures idea generation board is updated and best ideas implemented are presented weekly to facility management.
• Challenges current state, seeking opportunities to make incremental improvements daily and identifying solutions to remove waste from production activities.
• Drives optimum employee performance, talent and talent development. Provides growth, training, and development opportunities to employees. Drives results through effective coaching, and counseling of staff and setting meaningful and measurable goals.
• Evaluates performance and escalates needs through proper managing and coaching of team members in relation to SQDC board meetings and daily standard reports (daily production, material requirements, etc.).
• Screens and selects qualified individuals for positions, conducts performance reviews, determines salary adjustments, work schedules, promotions, training, and effectively addresses employee relations situations and manages conflict.
• Covers Team Leader absences to maintain flow and efficiency of work area.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required:

• Associates Degree with minimum of 2 years manufacturing operations experience or minimum 10 years’ experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum 2 years of supervisory experience
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Preferred:

• Knowledge of metal fabrication, conventional and CNC Machining
• Experience working with Lean manufacturing methodologies in a production environment
• Experience with a medical device or regulated environment
• Ability to read blueprints
• GD&T experienced 

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