Our mid-sized medical device client is hiring a Sr. Production Manager for the team. The Sr. Production Manager will oversee all daily operations of 2 sites from assembly and fabrication to ensuring policies and procedures are followed. This role is responsible for developing people and processes that will maximize safety, quality, productivity, and on-time delivery. This role requires strategic thinking, leadership, and hands-on management to drive excellence throughout operations. Reports to Director of Operations.

Your role with the company:

1. Oversee facility operations to ensure the safety of our team members.
2. Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
3. Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate, and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
4. Monitors daily work operations of facility/organizational unit/designated scope/etc. and provides direction and guidance to lower-level supervisors, experienced exempt employees, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or project goals. 
5. Interacts with internal customers by meeting regularly, responding to requests, and explaining procedures.
6. Executes policies that affect processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit. 
7. Influences business decisions by recommendation and development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organizational unit. 
8. Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc.). 
9. Monitors internal and external indicators by reviewing reports and newsletters, reading organizational literature, meeting with peers, and reading departmental reports.
10. Contributes to the development and monitoring of area/organizational unit budget through regular analysis of cost and spending. 
11. In all actions, demonstrates a primary commitment to safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures. 
12. Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.

Desired profile:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of people leadership experience.
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Lean/Six Sigma Greenbelt preferred
• Minimum 5 years of manufacturing experience in the medical device industy
• Track record of success.
• Proven managerial experience.
• Familiarity with the core capabilities of a manufacturing site.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Application and Autonomy: 
  • Leads the execution of functional operation and business strategy to accomplish corporate objectives, strategy, and plans
  • Manages the overall operations in assigned unit/facility/etc. of responsibility
  • Drives functional programs in support of functional activities.
• Organizational Impact: 
  • Manages the overall operations of the managed business department and makes significant department/facility decisions.
  • Influences facility decisions by recommending functional and operational initiatives and strategies.
  • Allocates facility resources in alignment with strategic priorities.
  • Executes organizational policies and directs the execution of functional strategies established by functional leadership.
• Innovation & Complexity:
  • Problems and issues faced require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
  • Establishes organizational policies in area of responsibility and directs the execution of functional strategies.
• Communication & Influence:
  • Communicates and conducts briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
  • Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on operational issues and internal divergent objectives.