Supv Ii, Manufacturing

Supervise employees across areas of manufacturing for smooth and continuous operations.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Supervise employees and manufacturing activities pertaining to the production of products and/or manufacturing processes across - and with manufacturing/technical knowledge of - multiple production areas, depending on the complexity of the areas
- Conduct performance reviews, including resolving performance issues
- Establish the scheduling of work orders and team performance metrics, including monitoring output and adjusting schedules to ensure production targets are achieved
- Accountable for productivity, quality, and training metrics of staff, and provide regular progress reports and manufacturing metrics to management and cross-functional stakeholders, including developing resolutions as needed to improve metrics achievement
- Lead complex improvement projects, partner with engineering on investigations and/or corrective actions, perform non-conformance investigations for review with engineering, assures documentation content is valid
- Ensure appropriate staffing for all positions
- Accountable to ensure staff is appropriately trained to perform assigned work
- Monitor raw material usage and availability required in daily production, including proposing resolutions to mediate shortages
- Manage material and labor variances to meet established standards, including proposing resolutions to mediate shortfalls
- Responsible for all project outcomes of assigned unit/group of employees
- Other incidental duties: Document owner for assigned product line assembly procedures; May guide and mentor entry level supervisors

**Education and Experience**:
Bachelor's Degree internship, or substantial technical knowledge and experience in assigned work area, and sufficient experience in related manufacturing, quality and/or product development engineering, with skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Supervisor II Required or

**Other**: in Diploma, 10 years years experience of relevant experience Required and

**Other**: 4 Years years experience previous related experience with full responsibility for all personnel including hire/fire authority and handling all aspects of employee relations in manufacturing, quality and/or product development engineering Required and
Experience working in a medical device industry Preferred

**Additional Skills**:

- Proven project management expertise
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
- Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite with working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, preferably JDE
- Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship skills; possessing strong collaboration skills in partnering with cross functional stakeholders in order to achieve objectives, as well as mediating and negotiating the needs of other areas to achieve consensus
- Ability to analyze and adjust line/operation layouts to improve efficiency
- Full understanding of all aspects of processes and equipment used across areas of responsibility
- Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
- Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts and Six Sigma
- Must be able to promote and work in an inter-departmental team environment
- Successful completion of ongoing job training of manufacturing process steps
- Strict attention to detail in regards to work orders, scheduling, and documentation

About Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world’s leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 13,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it’s our life’s work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

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**For United States Applicants Only**:
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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