Production Supervisor, Second Operations (2nd OPS)

Tecan Contract Development and Manufacturing Operation (CDMO) Solutions is a rapidly growing global OEM services leader in the contract manufacturing and technology development of high-quality MedTech and Life Sciences products. Tecan is helping its clients maximize their core technologies' potential, expediting the transition from NPI to full-scale manufacturing. Tecan’s contract manufacturing services are in Morgan Hill, CA, and Penang, Malaysia. We offer a rewarding work environment with global opportunities while maintaining the agility of a small company, an employee-focused and highly collaborative culture. Tecan CDMO is a part of Tecan Partnering and the Tecan group, which strives to improve people's lives and health by empowering our clients to scale healthcare innovation globally.

Tecan CDMO is seeking a Production Supervisor for our second OPS department, which contributes to the profitable growth of its highly successful contract manufacturing services business (Paramit). This role will lead our team of geographically disbursed US business development professionals and report to the Production Manager.

In this role, you will apply job skills and company internal procedures and policies to complete a wide range of intermediate tasks. You will be the front line in providing hands-on leadership for production personnel.

Collaborating and working with Production Control Planning, you will assist your team in meeting their schedules and monitoring the workflow and resources. As an essential part of our production leadership team, you will resolve problems while fostering cooperation within and between departments to meet cost, quality, and quantity requirements. Promoting the culture of quality and continuous improvement in all aspects of the production process is a key part of this role.

Reports to: Production Manager

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Generate a manufacturing schedule to meet customer requirements.
• Responsible for the creation, distribution, and filing of shop orders. Responsible for ensuring the whereabouts of the shop order as it travels through production.
• Assign an appropriate serial number series to each shop order.
• May investigate shortages.
• Inform buyers of immediate materials shortages.
• Within the established guidelines, respond to requests for delivery commitments from the Order Administrator, Sales/Customer Service.
• Assure inventory accuracy by monitoring inventory transactions and inventory reconciliation.
• File completed shop orders using the Device History Procedure.
• Work with production staff and Operations Manager to ensure on-time delivery of orders to customers.
• Communicate material or production issues that affect the ability to meet the current production schedule.
• Aid in the implementation of engineering change orders (COs).
• Open and close reservations for internal material requirements from various departments, such as Service, R&D, Marketing, etc.
• Supervise, lead, and provide necessary ongoing training to achieve output targets.
• May inspect products and review final test to verify conformance to quality specifications.
• Maintain quality and output requirements. Inform relevant personnel of product problems and coordinate solut