**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. 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.
Your purpose-driven work will help leave lasting and positive impacts on patient lives.
In this role, you will manage a team and activities with responsibility for ensuring the plant operates efficiently.
Key Responsibilities:
* Manage and/or lead a small team within facilities.
* Develop team members to increase business acumen and functional skills.
* Plan and direct assigned operational and project activities with the accountability for successful completion of assigned deliverables to optimize efficiency and avoid/minimize adverse impact to safety, quality & operations.
* Identify opportunities and lead the implementation of changes to drive improvements.
* Work on complex issues where analysis of issues requires in-depth knowledge.
* Manage multiple projects in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Education and Experience:
* Bachelor's Honours Degree (Level 8) in Technical field and at least 10 years experience in a facilities' position.
* At least 2-3 years Managerial experience.
Required Skills:
* Proven successful project management leadership skills.
* Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and related tools and systems.
* Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives.
* Extensive understanding of facilities procedures while defining team operating standards and ensuring essential procedures are followed based on knowledge of own discipline.
* Extensive knowledge of broad range of facilities technical systems and processes.
* Knowledge of financial processes that relate to facilities.
* Demonstrated skill set to manage assigned team and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations.
* Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of facilities to the business.
* Strict attention to detail.
* Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization.
* Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment.
$150,000 - $200,000 per year
Please note: salary is an estimate and may vary based on location and other factors.
Primarily interacts with internal subordinates and other supervisors. Ability to develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.
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