Senior Production Supervisor 1st shift

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Production Supervisor, are to:

• Ensures all Bayer HR policies and procedures are followed and completed in a timely manner;
• Supervise shift staff of up to 120 employees in the plant across multiple disciplines including manufacturing personnel and supervisors, maintenance technicians, sterilization technicians and warehouse personnel;
• Develop, communicate, and manage objectives to team members;
• Proactively communicate relevant information and needs to department leads and organization;
• Lead and manage all processing activities on assigned shift within the manufacturing plant;
• Accountable for meeting standards within the manufacturing plant with regards to safety, quality, productivity, and delivery;
• Practice, encourage, and reinforce safe, healthy, and environmentally sound behaviors in a team environment;
• Responsible for ensuring the work environment is conducive to employee health and safety;
• Establish, implement, and support systems that create and maintain standard operating procedures for production operations;
• Maintain working knowledge of all manufacturing processes, equipment, developments, and best practices;
• Promote lean manufacturing culture and drive lean process improvements within manufacturing areas that will improve quality, productivity and reduce operating costs over time;
• Responsible for training, setting daily work schedules, providing guidance, counseling on performance feedback, initiating and assisting with corrective action;
• Responsible for compliance to Bayer’s Quality System and Quality System Regulations/ISO standards within Sterile Disposables Manufacturing areas;
• Establish relationships across functional areas and formal communication methods to ensure improvement needs are prioritized and addressed in a timely manner;
• Create an environment which recognizes and supports continuous improvement;
• Prepare timely reports for distribution to internal customers; maintain accurate records and files;
• Provide developmental assistance to line employees with the ability to guide complex corrective action and development activities;
• Coordinate training of direct reports and cross-functional teams;
• Effective project management skills while concurrently executing daily activities;
• Responsible for the execution of continuous improvement initiatives;
• Participate in strategic planning to meet plant wide safety, quality, delivery, and cost KPIs;
• Proactively seek opportunities to develop on shift talent;
• Implement best practices across shifts;
• Understand when to escalate issues, and utilizes the proper channels;
• Proficient communicating upward and downward;
• Develop and maintain high trust relationships with all staff by consistently adhering to Bayer LIFE values;
• Mentor less experienced production leadership employees;
• Active member on various problem-solving teams working collaboratively to determine corrective and preventative actions for quality non-conformances, equipment issues, operational efficiency improvements, etc.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our life values, more specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree;
• Five years overall experience demonstrating strong leadership competencies, with a blend of manufacturing/production management and quality assurance/regulatory requirements;
• Environmental, Health and Safety experience;
• Experience with self-directed work teams processes, high-level interpersonal skills;
• Knowledge of effective and efficient production and manufacturing methods, which fuel the incumbent’s ability to influence the organization to evolve their processes and advance capabilities;
• Passion for leading, developing and coaching;
• Personally interested in continuing to grow and build personal skills;
• Effective written and oral communication skills, with an ability to engage a broad range of stakeholders;
• Strong MS Office application knowledge;
• Leans into problem solving activities to identify the root cause and implement a sustainable solution, with engaging others in the process.

Preferred qualifications:

• Education: Technical Degree;
• Medical manufacturing as well as QSR/ISO experience;
• Manufacturing/Industrial, quality engineering, or maintenance engineering experience;
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of manufacturing of medical device products.