Supv, Production II

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At Baxter we believe every personregardless of who they are or where they are fromdeserves 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 jobyou will find purpose and pride.

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter we believe every personregardless of who they are or where they are fromdeserves 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 jobyou will find purpose and pride.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining liveswhere your purpose accelerates our mission.

In this role you will have the unique opportunity to lead and inspire a team dedicated to flawless production and world-class manufacturing. Your contributions will be pivotal in driving continuous improvement and achieving exceptional results.

Supports the Value Stream Manager in the following activities:

• Create current state value stream map of the end-to-end value stream(s).
• Lead resources to analyze the current state map based on facts. Then create a future state map using lean techniques. These techniques eliminate waste and improve the process.
• Create a plan to achieve the future state and lead the implementation of the plan.
• Manage routine tasks within the value stream to ensure that ongoing obligations are fulfilled as progress is made.
• Ensure that improvement metrics related to: Safety Quality Cost Delivery Inventory are being met including 5S scores and other critical value stream metrics.
• Work with teams and use Lean tools to make continuous improvements.
• Plan & support Kaizen events.
• Create a motivated work environment to support Lean objectives.
• Provide motivational leadership and communication to all team associates to ensure understanding and attainment of SQDCI performance objectives.
• Employ drive and promote understanding of Lean tools and principles to ensure the delivery of business objectives and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Develop world-class operations organization by providing training coaching and counseling as appropriate.
• Ensure proper staffing levels quality and quantity to meet customer requirements and achieve productivity targets.
• Establish observe and share visual data for the area; act on this information by detecting challenges addressing them and advancing process control.
• Develop and support teams that make suggestions take initiative and actively implement improvements.
• Build strong alliances across all functions and is strategic liaison to Product Management Sales Customer Service Design Engineering.
• Capacity (equipment labor space) and maintenance planning and strategies.
• Production yield productivity downtime tracking and corrective action.
• Apply experience training and acquired engineering techniques to solve problems encountered in design redesign or troubleshooting.
• May supervise and/or give technical and safety direction or guidance to peers technicians designers drafters model makers and others. May serve as project leader.
• Participate in project planning and may direct portions of smaller projects or segments of large projects to include scheduling monitoring costs resources workforce loading etc.
• Integration of existing processes (via transfer from other Welch Allyn sites) and development and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes for mechanical devices.
• Cycle time estimation tracking and development of production routers.
• Meet with external customers and suppliers to exchange information and to assist with more difficult technical problems.
• Design and implementation of production fixtures/tools and inspection equipment as required.
• Coordination of tasks associated with transferring manufacturing to a new production location.
• Develop and maintenance of Manufacturing Process Instructions (process sheets MPS) routers and bill of materials.
• Development and completion of process validation. Changes to specifications methods processes or procedures must be verified or validated before implementation. This is done following standard operating procedures and QSRs element 820.75.
• Participates in CPE projects and product and process validation and verification according to quality system procedures.
• May lead or participate with organizational and group operations management in CAPA activities by conducting determining and verifying corrective actions. These actions ensure continued compliance with division policy and procedures Federal regulations under Title 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485.
• In charge of tracking spotting trends analyzing and addressing challenges associated with manufacturing operations.

Leadership skills:

• Lead with integrity honesty and trust.
• Deliver reliable unique and groundbreaking solutions that exceed expectations.
• Collaborate to leverage and align all elements of the organization.
• Inspire every employee to reach their full potential and achieve excellence.

Communication skills:

• Read analyze and interpret general business periodicals professional journals technical procedures or government regulations.
• Write reports business correspondence and procedures.
• Conduct training lead and participate in departmental and other team meetings.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers employees customers and other business professionals.
• Strong negotiation skills.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity or expression protected veteran status disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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