Senior Supervisor, Manufacturing

Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At Edwards Lifesciences facilities around the world, 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.

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Supply Chain team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross‑functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.

Supervise employees and activities across areas of manufacturing for smooth and continuous operations.

• Supervising employees and manufacturing activities pertaining to the production of products and/or manufacturing processes in – and with manufacturing/technical knowledge of – multiple production areas, depending on the complexity of the areas, to ensure the specifications and procedures of the company, in addition to conducting performance reviews, including resolving performance issues.
• Leading complex improvement projects, partnering with engineering on investigations and/or corrective actions, performing non‑conformance investigations for review with engineering, assuring documentation content is valid including designing, implementing and optimizing procedures and working methods.
• Establishing the scheduling of work orders and team performance metrics, including monitoring output and adjusting schedules to ensure production targets are achieved.
• Accountable for productivity and quality metrics of staff, and provide regular progress reports and manufacturing metrics to management and cross‑functional stakeholders, including developing resolutions as needed to improve metrics achievement.
• Ensuring appropriate staffing for all positions.
• Accountable to ensuring staff is appropriately trained to perform assigned work.
• Documenting owner for assigned product line assembly procedures.
• Responsible for all project outcomes of assigned unit/group of employees.
• May guide and mentor entry level supervisors.
• May provide management duties in the absence of Manager.
• Other incidental duties (e.g. occasional photo copying or deliveries).

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in related field (e.g, industrial, chemical, electrical, mechanical) and 4 years previous related experience OR equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria.
• In‑depth technical knowledge and experience in assigned work area, and substantial experience in related manufacturing, quality and/or product development engineering with skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Supervisor II.

• Experience working in a medical device industry.
• Proven project management expertise.
• Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (doesn’t apply for DR), preferably JDE.
• 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 and negotiating the needs of other areas to achieve consensus.
• High proficiency in reading, comprehending, writing, and speaking English and Spanish.
• 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.

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