**Position for Shift B**
**_ MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE_**
Leads the line of production.
Manages the operation and personnel of one or more production lines to maximize productivity and operating efficiencies.
Manages and oversees the coordination of labor, materials, equipment, and tooling to assemble product effectively and deliver inventory.
Maintains a high level of product quality and traceability during the product assembly.
Ensures production is performed in full compliance with Quality System and all procedural requirements.
Manages and promotes safe work environment and behavior.
The Production Supervisor will generate improvements through innovative ideas and execution while meeting daily production/operational demands.
**_ MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES_**
- Implements and manages a staffing plan by identifying resources requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
- Trains and certifies to all critical assembly operations and understands all line PFM´s.
- Monitors daily metrics and provides direction and guidance to lower - level supervisors, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or Project goals.
- Retains responsibility for product from initial assembly to final distribution.
Schedules and organizes assigned manufacturing lines to achieve 100% product availability and maintain targets levels of inventories.
- Communicates to line personnel daily while maintaining a constant line presence.
- Maintains regular communication with exempt level staff to ensure alignment in running operations and achieving objectives.
- Maintains a safe environment with 100% training and compliance with applicable procedures.
- Responsible for achieving dept.
attendance targets including immediate feedback to employee by instance.
- Coordinates activities related to shift starts and changes.
- Communicate with other departments and functions as need in support of meeting operational objectives.
- Helps develop, interpret and execute policies that affect work processes and personnel with the assigned organizational unit.
- Oversees personnel and processes to ensure full compliance with internal and external regulations.
- Monitors and communicates internal and external indicators that impact the business and or industry by reviewing reports and newletters, reading organizational literature, meeting with peers and reading development reports.
**_ QUALIFICATIONS_**
**_ Education_**
Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Business or related career.
**_ Experience/Background_**
- 6 years of related work.
- Influence and Leadership.
- Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting the manufacture of Medical Devices (i.e., cGMPs and CFRs).
- Accountable to ensure the operation team manufactures products that meet the highest standards in quality, customer service, and compliance with regulatory agencies.
Error in judgment or execution could result in serious quality issues, and interruption in product availability, directly affect patients' lives and generate significant manufacturing cost variances and inventory issues.
- Accountable to ensure that safety, quality, and performance goals are met on a daily and weekly basis.
- Error in judgment may interrupt weekly production goals as well as jeopardize product availability.
- Industry / supervisory experience and direct exposure to Operations desired.
- Ability to direct activities of employees.
Ability to train and motivate assigned personnel.
- Fully Bilingual (English and Spanish) / Required_