Manufacturing Group Leader

Job Overview

To assist the Manufacturing Supervisor in planning, organizing, supervising, and controlling the activities of the manufacturing department.

Job Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Assist Manufacturing Supervisor with resource planning, work order scheduling and coordinating duties of subordinate personnel in support of achieving manufacturing schedules including product sterilization shipment schedule.
• Ensure manufacturing personnel meet manufacturing requirements including labor & quality standards, adhering to break & lunch schedule.
• Coordinate activities to resolve manufacturing issues:  material shortage, quality concerns, equipment issues.
• Responsible for maintaining component inventory to ensure parts are available and/or scheduled to meet production schedule.
• Coordinate KanBan replenishment activities.
• Responsible for Oracle transactions; opening jobs, completing jobs, move transactions, complete transactions, scrap transactions, material issuance.
• Coordinate and/or provide training for manufacturing personnel.
• Ensures all required documentation is in place and properly completed for all manufacturing requirements.  DHR, DHT, Flow Sheet, inspection data.
• Responsible for updating all incoming manufacturing procedures including review of Engineer Change Orders and destroying obsolete documentation within manufacturing department.
• Interacts with other departments within the company to meet departmental goals.
• Maintain a clean, safe work environment; being proactive with safety issues.
• Performs other duties as required.

Minimum Requirement

• Minimum High School diploma or equivelant required
• 2+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment required
• Leadership experience strongly preferred
• Medical device manufacturing experience preferred
• Strong communication skills, ability to speak, read and write English.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office applications are required (Word/Excel).

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• General knowledge of cGMPs and standard manufacturing methodologies. 
• Proficient interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with coworkers. 
• Detailed oriented and can work independent of direct supervision. 
• Punctual, good attendance and work overtime as needed. 

Supervision/Management of Others:

• Responsible for 4 indirect reports.

Environmental/Safety/Physical Work Conditions

• Ensures environmental consciousness and safe practices are exhibited in decisions.
• Duties are performed in a manufacturing/clean room environment. 
• Personal protective equipment may be required as dictated by work environment.
• Use/work in the immediate vicinity of 70/30 isopropyl alcohol (IPA) solution used for the preparation of work areas (line clearance) and used during the manufacturing process.
• The physical demands described here are a representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.