Senior Production Supervisor - 3rd Shift

Senior Production Supervisor

Boston Scientific in Arden Hills, MN is looking for a Senior Production Supervisor to join their team. The core hours of this shift are: 10:00pm-6:00am, Sunday-Thursday. The Senior Production Supervisor will lead a diverse team of direct labor employees in safely producing high quality medical devices and equipment for the customer – directly impacting patients' lives around the world. In this role, you will have the opportunity to grow your leadership skills as you lead, coach, and mentor the production and support team personnel creating a culture of engagement and continuous improvement. In addition to daily execution of line performance with project leadership and change management, you will ensure your team meets safety, quality, service and cost goals.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Produce high quality products, safely, on time for the customer at the lowest cost
• Identify customer requirements to deliver the right products at the right time
• Be responsive & flexible to customer demands
• Achieve & exceed product cost goals
• Support new product development readiness activities for the line team
• Manufacture products to the highest quality standards and ensure compliance to all Boston Scientific policies and regulations
• Promote safety, quality & compliance among the team while maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices
• Foster teamwork and enable a culture of Operational Excellence throughout the entire cross-functional team
• Ensure effective two-way communication between the production line team and cross-functional support teams
• Manage, motivate, develop, and involve product builders through coaching and performance management
• Embed the company values through demonstration & recognition of individual & team behaviors
• Utilize production area planning tools to ensure all resources are in place to achieve team commitments such as Direct Labor Staffing, Equipment Capacity, Support Team, and Space
• Ensure product builder training is effective & efficient and maintain training versatility across entire team
• Utilize leader standard work to ensure lines are meeting standards and escalate appropriately
• Lead & create team engagement around continuous improvement goals for safety, quality, service, cost and space through the utilization of lean and operational excellence tools and best practices
• Partner with materials management team for build planning and material delivery systems and tools
• Analyze build plan requirements and provide forward looking monthly production commitments
• Anticipate requirements and position resources to meet & exceed the customer needs
• Provide appropriate input into the long-term planning of the production area

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 1 year of experience in operations, manufacturing, or engineering-related fields, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 1 year of supervisory/leadership experience (may be included within total years of experience above)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Experience with Lean tools/systems
• Able to support and lead a production team working 3rd shift hours.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a regulated environment
• Medical device industry experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Ability to be flexible and agile
• Ability to be a self-starter