Production Supervisor, 1st shift

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where we make life-saving products!

You have deep knowledge of and experience with manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. As a Production Supervisor, you are a leader who is willing to listen and inspire others by your actions. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results!

This role positions you to be directly involved in the physical production that enables Baxter to fulfill our mission to save & sustain lives. You manage the line between meeting production timelines and making quality products. As a manager, you are the trusted critical connection between the business and the workers on the floor.

Your Team

Baxter is passionate about saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Every single day, the manufacturing team strives to develop quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to tackle. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to build products with the customer's needs top-of-mind.

We build relationships with each other to get work done.

As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds.

A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy—both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

What You'll Be Doing

• Enforce safety and sanitation regulations. Investigate accidents and implement corrective plan to eliminate recurrence. Conduct or assign training in equipment operations or work and safety procedures.

• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as assemblers.

• Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.

• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs to ensure that customer delivery requirements are met.

• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals and minimize overtime.

• Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.

• Recommend or implement 5s activities and other measures to empower employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.

• Work requires a high level of judgment, analytic ability and creativity, such as investigating moderately complex problems or situations, analyzing information, and recommending solutions.

• Support new product development (NPD) activities

• Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

• Directly supervises between ten to sixty full-time and part-time associates.

• Responsibilities include training associates; planning, assigning and directing work; rewarding and disciplining associates; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

What You'll Bring

• Associate Degree in Business or Engineering or equivalent experience by combination of education and work experience in a specific discipline. (Bachelor Degree preferred).

• Minimum two years of similar job related experience, or equiv