Primary Function of Position:
The Senior Production Manager is responsible of managing production activities of a business unit to deliver products that meet quality specifications achieve or exceed service level and cost targets while ensuring employees safety complying with applicable regulations and company policies.
Under indirect supervision works with the Director of Manufacturing to stablish short to midterm strategies to assure employee engagement culture deployment talent management cost reduction cost management and continues improvement processes.
This role required collaboration with all the departments at the site and at corporate offices to ensure alignment and flawless plan execution. The Senior Production Manager needs to participate support and sometimes lead the introduction of new process new products and new technical platforms targeted for his areas of influence.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Department Goals Deployment (i.e. Hoshin Kanri (HK) X3/X4) aligned to Site Overall Goals & Objectives (X2) measure department metrics (KPIs) to monitor performance and coordinates actions to ensure improvements.
- Review production plan and coordinate manufacturing resources to ensure timely delivery of products while be sure to comply with Quality System requirements.
- Interacts and collaborates with other departments to solve any restriction that may stop or slow down production including material personnel equipment and process issues.
- Responsible for department budget planning (HC Suppliers equipment purchases) and expense management to meet or exceed financial targets.
- Identify and coordinate cost reduction projects including labor productivity material usage defect reduction space and inventory optimization using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.
- Foster implementation of preventive and corrective actions that may result from production non-conformances audit observations CAPA and others (VRs PLs NCRs DNs FE EEs).
- Ensure to comply with ISO and Environment Health and Safety requirements as well as all applicable company procedures and policies.
- Provide timely and effective support for new products introduction and existent process transfers to the department.
- Effective management of employee development plans (OPT & TAPs).
- Constantly review of direct reports training curricula in ISU.
- Foster performance and teamwork culture as well as rewards and recognition.
- Partnership with Human Resource department to address personal related activities
- Accountable for communicating to upper management business related issues per escalation process
- Responsible for employees to follow all Company guidelines related to Health Safety and Environmental practices. Ensure all the resources required to do so are available and in good condition
- Responsible that employees comply with Federal State local and Company regulations policies as well as procedures
- Perform other duties assigned as needed
- Mentor and develop team members through tactical problem solving define clear performance objectives and translate challenges into growth opportunities to drive team engagement to meet department and organizational goals
- Responsible for attracting and retain talent
- Complete Performance and feedback process (C.I.P and MERIT) per Company guidelines to direct reports
- Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission founding principles individual and leadership expectations.
Qualifications :
Skills Experience Education & Training:
Education/ Experience:
- BS in Engineering or Business Administration
- Masters degree is preferred
- Medical Devices experience is mandatory
- Green Belt / Black Belt Certified in Lean-Sigma is preferred
- 10 years of experience in medical industry (Production Engineering Planning Quality) preferable.
- 5 years of Production Manager / Superintendent or personal management (Coaching and Talent Development)
- 3 years of experience with Continuous Improvement Manufacturing Systems (Lean Six Sigma Kaizen 5S etc.) Project Management Product Transfer / NPI
- Experience with ERP and planning systems (SAP Agile o9) preferred.
Skill/ Job Requirements:
- Excellent oral and written skills in English and Spanish with the ability to do effective presentations for different organizational levels.
- Knowledge of the Quality System requirements such as ISO-13485 and MDSAP
- Knowledge of Operations Management including resources and capacity planning as well as project management.
- Ability to identify opportunities for improvement through Continuous Improvement methodologies (Lean Sigma Root Cause problem solving techniques)
- Knowledge of Financial concepts applied to Manufacture including budget preparation and spending management.
- Excellent leadership collaboration and teamwork skills.
- Ability to manage complexity and translated to actions.
Additional Information :
Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso independientemente de su raza sexo condición de embarazo orientación sexual identidad de género origen nacional color edad religión condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales estatales o locales aplicables.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time