**Main Purpose of Job**:- Leading the sustaining activities of their value streams regarding people, safety, quality, production, financials & operational excellence.- Actively supporting sustaining and new launches activities regarding engineering, planning, procurement, deliveries & maintenance.- Promoting outstanding work environment within their value streams, ensuring communication, respect, recognition, inclusion & dialogue are at the operations bases.- Developing proactive & perdurable interrelationships between the value streams and other functional support departments, assuring the value streams are compliant with established policies and procedures set forth by the company.- Performing as the main customer interface with Viant, delivering a world class customer service experience.**Responsibilities**:- Manage direct and indirect resources to accomplish business goals.- Maintain morale and employee relations. Promptly recognize milestones completion, quality related achievements & go beyond attitudes.- Develop, sustain & enhance working networks within and between departments.- Promote a safe work environment by sponsoring continuous improvement initiatives around EHS.- Ensure next level (downstream) routinely performance and development reviews by setting and maintaining individual and group sessions based on established objectives & desirable career paths.- Coach and develop direct resources to help achieve IDPs.- Coach and develop direct and indirect resources to help achieve IDPs.- Lead value stream members while seeking excellence in all quality & compliance related metrics and goals.- Ensure value stream business units profitability by hitting or exceeding financial projections; manage all required improvements towards materials usage, labor efficiency, overhead expenses & sales achievement.- Promote & lead value improvement projects (VIPs) and OpEx initiatives to enhance profitability.- Manage production upstream planning & programming to ensure reaching business goals- Act as the liaison between the value stream team, the company & the customer.- Support Business Development on liability negotiations with customers when agreements have been broken or any condition has been dismissed.- Support Business Development initiatives with current or potential customers.- Develop and deploy performance/reporting improvement ideas & tools for value streams under responsibility.- Develop and deploy performance/reporting improvement ideas & tools through all value streams and departments.- Support new launches as required.- Provide business status reports to customer and upper management (local/PLT). Generate appropriate content for such review.- Provide business status reports to customer and upper management (local and corporate). Generate appropriate content for such review.Knowledge / Education- Bachelor´s Degree in Engineering or Business related field.- Basic knowledge in Microsoft Excel (Format, basic formulas, etc).- Intermediate knowledge in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, Advance formulas, macros etc).- Advanced knowledge in production management (lean tools, line balance (applicable for assembly VSTs), product costing, MUV, labor efficiency, etc)- Basic knowledge in applicable safety procedures.- Bilingual English/Spanish - Advanced intermediate English level (B2 minimum)- Intermediate knowledge in supply chain planning (Forecast, supply & demand, MRP, purchasing lead times, manufacturing lead times, level loading, BOMs)- Intermediate knowledge on finance (MUV, P&L statement, PPV)Job Experience- At least 6 years in a production management role (i.e. Operations Superintendent, Value Stream Manager I, Value Stream Manager II)- At least 6 years of experience in people management (Production supervisors, VST members) with demonstrated results of development initiatives (i.e. IDP, turnover, promotions, corrective action plans, terminations).- Demonstrated partnership with peers to achieve business results.- Experience within the medical device manufacturing field or in any other regulated industry- Demonstrated successful customer interaction experience (Customer feedback, KPIs management, etc).- Demonstrated successful interaction experience with difficult customers (Customer feedback, KPIs management, etc).- Demonstrated experience with customers with at least 2 different customer representative.- Experience executing successful ramps for new product introduction launches.- Demonstrated experience interacting with commercial team.Viant proporciona igualdad de oportunidades de empleo (EEO) a todos los empleados y solicitantes de empleo sin tener en cuenta la raza, color, religión, género, orientación sexual, nacionalidad, edad, discapacidad, estado civil, amnistía, o estatus como veterano cubierto de acuerdo con las leyes federales, estatales y locales aplicables. Viant cumple con las leyes estatales y locales aplicables que rigen la no discr
