Manager Manufacturing

Department: Manufacturing

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Gainesville, FL

Reporting To: Sr Director Operations and Engineering

Description

 Inspire, Lead, and Deliver excellence in the machining and finishing manufacturing operation. 

Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the Machining and Finishing manufacturing operations for implant products to include planning, monitoring/measuring and reporting of processes to ensure production, quality and delivery goals and objectives are met. 
• Develop, communicate, implement, measure and meet Quarterly and Annual Production goals and objectives. 
• Understand and ensure Quality system policies are applied in all Production operations. 
• Develop and maintain accurate routings, production lot history records, SOP’s, and work instructions. 
• Develop and maintain accurate production labor and equipment capacity standards for each product line, identify and implement process improvements related to quality and cost reduction opportunities. 
• Recommend/justify capital equipment expenditures. 
• Maintain and provide appropriate storage for tooling, fixturing, equipment and raw material inventories. 
• Develop, implement and document all Production training. 
• Plan shop floor daily and weekly activities utilizing equipment and resource capacity to meet production schedules. 
• Develop and maintain clean and safe working conditions to prevent accidents. 
• Understand and participate and/or lead production functional effort for all corrective and prevention action activities. 
• Work effectively with Manufacturing Engineering and the Instrument plant to integrate the development and production of new and/or transferred products and processes into the Advita Machining and Finishing operations on schedule to improve quality, delivery and cost. 
• Recommend and direct personnel activities of department such as recruiting, hiring, performance evaluation, and salary adjustments. 
• Prepare and effectively manage the approved annual Machining expense, headcount and capital budget. 
• Actively participate in team meetings or on multi-skilled teams as necessary. • Develop and implement a formal written departmental communication plan. 
• Assist and support other employees, teams and sales personnel as necessary 

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Education:

•  Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution required. Experience may offset education 

 Experience:

•  5 years of relevant industry experience in machine shop operations and supervision/management. 
• Experience with CNC, machine and inspection tools and finishing operations for manufacturing medical device products. 

Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

•  Good technical problem solving skills, process improvement, machine set up and cycle time reduction experience. 
• Ability to schedule and meet production deadlines.