Making a meaningful difference to patients around the world requires a collaborative and innovative approach. At Edwards Lifesciences, our manufacturing teams worldwide create tools, technologies, and devices that transform lives. As part of our sewing, assembly, delivery, and distribution teams, your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality.
Role Overview
In this role, you will supervise employees and activities across areas of quality for smooth and continuous operations. This includes managing NCRs, resources, training, and overseeing the development of manufacturing role employees. You will also be involved in projects for yield and process improvements, as well as lead the implementation of new systems and processes.
Key Responsibilities
* Supervise employees and quality activities pertaining to the production of products and/or manufacturing processes, ensuring quality and technical knowledge in 2 or more production areas.
* Conduct performance reviews, including resolving performance issues and providing regular progress reports and quality metrics to management and cross-functional stakeholders.
* Oversee the scheduling of work orders and team performance metrics, ensuring appropriate staffing for all positions.
* 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 ensure documentation content is valid.
* Document owner for assigned product line inspection procedures and monitor labour variances to meet established standards.
Requirements
* 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.
* Required Additional Skills:
o Experience leading multi-cultural teams with cultural sensitivity.
o Project management experience.
o Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, preferably JDE.
o Experience working in a medical device industry, preferred.
o 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 differences to achieve consensus.