QA Supervisor - Day Shift
Apply locations: Ireland-Shannon
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 7 Days Ago
Job requisition id: Req-36801
Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At Edwards Lifesciences, our Manufacturing teams create the tools, technologies, and devices that transform patients’ lives. Your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality.
In this role, you will supervise employees and activities across areas of quality for smooth and continuous operations, including NCR, resource, training management, and will also be responsible for the development of manufacturing role employees. This role will also be involved in projects for yield and process improvement and lead the implementation of new systems/processes.
Working Hours: Monday-Thursday, 5:45am-4pm
Key Responsibilities:
* Supervise employees and quality activities pertaining to the production of products and/or manufacturing processes in two or more production areas, conducting performance reviews and resolving performance issues.
* Oversee the scheduling of work orders and team performance metrics.
* Ensure appropriate staffing for all positions.
* Accountable to ensure staff is appropriately trained to perform assigned work.
* Accountable for productivity and quality metrics of staff, providing regular progress reports and quality metrics to management and cross-functional stakeholders.
* Lead improvement projects, partner with engineering on investigations and/or corrective actions, perform non-conformance investigations for review with engineering, and assure documentation content is valid.
* Document owner for assigned product line inspection procedures.
* Monitor labour variances to meet established standards.
Education and Experience:
* Bachelor's Degree.
* 2 years 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.
Additional Skills:
* Experience leading multi-cultural teams with cultural sensitivity.
* Project management experience.
* Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite with working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, preferably JDE.
* Experience working in a medical device industry, preferred.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship skills; possessing strong collaboration skills in partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve objectives.
* Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries and protecting the environment.
About Us
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 leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives.
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 critical care settings, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.
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