Overview:
Waters Corporation is seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented, and dynamic leader to oversee our assembly operations within the manufacturing division. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for excellence in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) performance. The successful candidate will manage approximately 20-40 employees across multiple shifts including production leads, ensuring the seamless execution of production processes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement.
The successful candidate will be a passionate and agile leader, who strives to deliver superior value to our internal and external customers every day. This position requires dynamic leadership, excellent interpersonal skills, problem solving, critical thinking as well as a compelling initiative to support organizational success.
Responsibilities:
* Champion a physically and mentally safe environment for all employees and coworkers, creating high self-awareness and demonstrated injuries reduction over time until reaching 0 incidents.
* Creating a work environment where employees are energized, excited, and motivated to continuously improve value stream processes, delight our customers, and accomplish both individual and team goals and objectives.
* Meet all performance measures and targets associated with Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery.
* Achieve production plans meeting attainment targets, tactical delivery plan to market and ultimately product availability for customers via high production performance.
* Meeting direct labor cost as well as achieving expected labor & line efficiency
* To develop initiatives, cost action or cost improvement towards excellence.
* Develops the technical capability of the workforce and leadership through ongoing training methodology, improving employee's flexibility and individual capability.
* Sponsored the lean operating system transformation process to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
* Ensure production leadership participation and commitment to the planning handshake. Provide insights into headcounts availability and production constraints.
* Demonstrate, teach, certify, and deploy root cause problem solving, making sure the production team address the problems systematically (5W, 3S).
* Manage departmental employees establishing clear goals and expectations, providing the resources they need to do their jobs and ensuring their development.
* Develops complete understanding of the entire process of each product line (current state) including production bottlenecks and risks to the process that could stop or slow process flow.
* Monitor KPIs routinely to ensure current production, quality, and cost targets are achieved using daily management structure to ensure sustainability and develop a performance culture.
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Qualifications:
* A bachelor's degree in technical field is preferred but will acknowledge experience in manufacturing / production environment
* A minimum of 5 years' experience in operations is required, preferably in an electronic, medical device or biotechnology industry.
* Understanding metrics and performance KPIs.
* Strong Continuous Improvement and Safety focus, proven experience. Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
* Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills. Familiarity with Six Sigma, and Lean methodologies
* Strong leadership skills, self-directed and the ability to make independent decisions and influence change management.
* Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills.
* Proficiency with SAP and Microsoft applications required.
* Familiar with Bill of Materials (BoM) and Production Routings.
* Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions.
* Familiarity with cGMP, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 is highly desired.
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