Stryker Corporation

Associate Production Team Leader

Stryker Corporation$77K — $129K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or 6 years equivalent experience
  • Minimum 2 years of work experience
  • Strong organizational and planning skills
  • Excellent communication and project management capabilities
  • Background in manufacturing or logistics

Responsibilities

  • Lead operations for product transfer to Kalamazoo site
  • Oversee multiple assembly lines
  • Guide team to achieve monthly production targets
  • Analyze data to address business and customer needs
  • Recruit and hire new talent for the team
  • Drive employee engagement and personal development
  • Manage production quality to meet regulatory standards

Benefits

  • Work onsite, Monday to Friday, with a PM shift
  • Engage in a culture of personal growth and development
  • Participate in regulatory audits (FDA, ISO, etc.)
  • Contribute to cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Collaborate with various departments for business alignment
Full Job Description
Work Flexibility: Onsite

Shift: 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm Monday - Friday (Weekends based on business need)

What you will do -

The Associate Production Team Leader will be an engaging leader for team growth and business results while maintaining a people, quality and safety first mindset. You will be the manufacturing leader in our Manufacturing Operations, accountable for team performance in the areas of: quality, delivery and performance to budget, team building, employee engagement, new product transfer, capacity and production planning.

  • Be responsible for the operations launch functions for product transfer to Kalamazoo site from other Stryker locations
  • Be responsible for multiple assembly lines
  • Lead team members from Operations to achieve monthly production targets
  • Use data and other inputs, to identify, prioritize, and deliver on business and customer needs
  • Be responsible for the recruitment and hiring of talent
  • Forecast and predict recruitment needs of temporary and permanent talent to the team for conversion
  • Manage labor through OT approval and timecard management
  • Drive employee engagement by being responsible and accountable for actions promoting an environment that fosters personal growth and development
  • Hold team and associated personnel accountable for Production quality requirements for regulatory standpoint
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams (Advanced Operations, Engineering, Quality) to achieve business goals
  • Analyze and identify levers to impact metrics/action plans to improve metrics and project impacts
  • Anticipate and predict line down issues and partner with support staff to avoid delays to production
  • Identify, prioritize and lead cost reduction initiatives to deliver on financial projections
  • Partner with other business unit leaders on projects or operations initiatives to align when appropriate
  • Be responsible for managing cost performance for the unit/team supported
  • Lead daily meetings and communicate business results /metrics clearly at all levels of the operations business
  • Evaluate employee performance through various means, such as talent reviews and common annual reviews, and enforcing company policies through appropriate disciplinary measures, with guidance
  • Drive a culture of continuous improvement through the support of business and process improvements including but not limited to 6S, lean manufacturing initiatives, etc..
  • Will participate in regulatory agency (FDA, ISO, EUMDR, etc.) audits


Required -
  • Bachelor's degree (or 6 years equivalent experience)
  • 2+ years of working experience
  • Excellent organization, planning, communication, project management and performance attainment in a manufacturing or logistics environment


Preferred -
  • Demonstrated leadership characters and capabilities
  • Previous manufacturing experience
  • Experience with medical device regulations, FDA regulations
  • Intermediate PC skills including Microsoft Office, Excel, Power BI, ERP Systems
  • SCADA experience


$77,700 - $129,500 USD Annual

Travel Percentage: 0%

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Stryker Networks is a premier Information Technology partner providing IT managed services and database application development.

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Learn more about Stryker Corporation
Size
46,000 employees
Market Cap
$91.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.5 billion
Founded
2004
5 Year Trend
+8.6%
Revenue
$14.3 billion
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