Manufacturing Superintendent

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives.

Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

• Responsible for meeting production requirements, delivering quality products to customers in a timely fashion and cost-efficient manner.
• Identify/prioritize/provide resources to assist the department manager to meet the annual operating plan and budgetary commitments.
• Supervise the daily manufacturing operations across a department or multiple departments.
• Emphasize training and implement control systems on the shift or multiple shifts to eliminate product discrepancies.
• Contribute to employee feedback and developmental processes.
• Provide a positive and equitable working environment emphasizing the Baxter Shared Values:
  Respect/Responsiveness/Results.
• Support and emphasize the Safety and Quality commitments of the department.
• Collaborate with other managers/customers to ensure our quality commitments are met.
• Coordinate daily and weekly production schedules across Devices operations to ensure attainment of production commitments, effective labor utilization, and timely escalation of capacity constraints.
• Ensure consistency in personnel policy administration across the plant.
• Help prepare material, supply, and labor budgets and forecasts for areas of responsibility.
• Make staffing decisions, perform succession planning for key positions.
• Investigate and resolve disciplinary issues up to and including suspensions and terminations.
• Will be responsible for driving operational excellence and flawless execution in the areas of cost reduction, discard reduction, annual productivity improvements, inventory turnover, regulatory excellence including exception reduction and internal/external regulatory commitment management, on time delivery and lead time reduction, improving the overall safety of the work environment, leadership development and the ability to create a vibrant continuous improvement culture based on the principles of QLP, Lean Manufacturing, total employee involvement and DMAIC problem solving.
• Perform analytical reviews, recommend, and implement corrective action for any exception condition.
• Sustain a clean and safe work area using 6S principles.
• Learn, understand, and apply rigorous quality standards, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).
• Notify the supervisor and take appropriate action if any safety, quality, mechanical or discrepancy issues occur.

• Ability to coordinate and direct manufacturing activities across multiple shifts through collaboration with shift supervisors while maintaining direct supervisory responsibility for assigned employees.
• Ability to interpret and analyze statistical data and information and financial reports, understand and resolve technical difficulties, work with internal engineering/technical experts and external technical representatives, manage multiple priorities in a manufacturing plant setting, be resourceful to a large manufacturing department.
• Knowledge of World Class manufacturing methods (QLP, Lean, Six Sigma), Good Manufacturing Practices, Food Drug and Administration guidelines and process validation.
• Understand verbal and written safety and quality instructions and read and comprehend written work instructions including words and drawings.
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and supervisors without direct authority to achieve operational objectives.
• Ability to coordinate production…