Operations Shift Manager - County Waterford
Location: Waterford, Co. Waterford
Location type: At the office
Employment type: Full time
Job type: Permanent
Shift Pattern: 2 days of 7am - 7pm, followed by 2 nights of 7pm - 7am, then 4 off days.
Position Summary:
As Operations Shift Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining production schedules and directing the activities of team members in line with operational, quality, and health & safety work instructions, procedures, and policies to ensure the production of quality product in a timely, safe, efficient, and compliant manner.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Lead & co-ordinate the day-to-day activities of the operations shift team, including key support to department team members, Quality Inspectors, Material Handlers, and Injection Moulding Technicians, to meet production targets for customer delivery, product quality & cost, ensuring a safe work environment at all times.
2. Lead the use of lean tools to drive continuous improvement & process reliability.
3. Create a high performing flexible team which achieves excellent results.
4. Lead shift daily operations meetings reviewing production data, machine running status, escalations & corrective action to ensure shift targets are achieved.
5. Ensure regular communication with the team through visual management systems, & co-ordinate all operator training in order to perform assigned tasks across production cells.
6. Responsible for ensuring that the team is trained & also to support the development of standard work, documentation, training & work instruction activities where appropriate.
7. Create a high performing cross-functional flexible team which achieves excellent results, through coaching/mentoring & effective performance management.
8. Plan all people, material & machine resources to support weekly production schedules.
9. Ensure all injection moulding, tool & assembly changeover activities are completed as scheduled along with appropriate line clearance procedures to meet cGMP compliance.
10. Ensure that batches are manufactured within the validated setup at all times & the quality team are provided with samples for outgoing testing throughout the batch.
11. Lead area 5S programme to ensure that housekeeping, cGMP & Safety issues are resolved in a timely & systematic manner thus meeting all company safety, environmental, and quality initiatives.
12. Ensure equipment & area cleaning, preventative maintenance, calibration schedules, inventory control & barcoding systems are adhered to as per cGMP requirements.
13. Implementation of company policies, adherence to all corporate EHS and cGMP policies.
14. Ensure ongoing compliance with GMP in all practices, recording of events and processes.
15. Ensure compliance with all learnings from all GMP training events.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Ideally a Level 7 or 8 HETAC Science / Engineering qualification in a relevant discipline.
2. Level 7 management/relevant supervisory management qualification desirable.
3. At least 3-5 years' injection moulding or automated assembly experience.
4. At least 5 years' supervisory/leadership experience.
5. Qualifications & experience in Lean (Green belt level) an advantage.
6. Excellent lean operations leadership, organisational and communication skills.
7. Ability to motivate self and others.
8. Excellent initiative and decision-making capability.
9. Ability to work in a team environment.
10. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, MS Project & ERP systems.
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