Senior Production Supervisor

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit
- High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing - whatever your ambitions.

Boston Scientific in Maple Grove is looking for a Senior Production Supervisor (1st Shift) to join the NSM (Nitinol Shape Memory) team. The core hours of this shift are: 5:30 AM - 1:30 PM. The Production Supervisor will lead a diverse team of direct labor employees in safely producing high quality medical devices and equipment for the customer - directly impacting patients' lives around the world.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to grow your leadership skills as you lead, coach, and mentor the production and support team personnel creating a culture of engagement and continuous improvement. In addition to daily execution of line performance with project leadership and change management, you will ensure your team meets safety, quality, service and cost goals.

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an on-site work model requiring employees to be in our local office. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

• Produce high quality products, safely, on time for the customer at the lowest cost.
• Identify customer requirements to deliver the right products at the right time.
• Be responsive & flexible to customer demands.
• Achieve & exceed product cost goals.
• Support new product development readiness activities for the line team.
• Manufacture products to the highest quality standards and ensure compliance to all Boston Scientific policies and regulations.
• Promote safety, quality & compliance among the team while maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Foster teamwork and enable a culture of Operational Excellence throughout the entire cross-functional team.
• Ensure effective two-way communication between the production line team and cross-functional support teams.
• Manage, motivate, develop, and involve product builders through coaching and performance management.
• Embed the company values through demonstration & recognition of individual & team behaviors.
• Utilize production area planning tools to ensure all resources are in place to achieve team commitments such as Direct Labor Staffing, Equipment Capacity, Support Team, and Space.
• Ensure product builder training is effective & efficient and maintain training versatility across entire team.
• Utilize leader standard work to ensure lines are meeting standards and elevate appropriately.
• Lead & create team engagement around continuous improvement goals for safety, quality, service, cost and space through the utilization of lean and operational excellence tools and best practices.
• Partner with materials management team for build planning and material delivery systems and tools.
• Analyze build plan requirements and provide forward looking monthly production commitments.
• Anticipate requirements and position resources to meet & exceed the customer needs.
• Provide appropriate input into the long-term planning of the production area.

• Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, operations, engineering, business, hospitality management, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 2 years people leadership or supervisory experience, including but not limited to hiring, coaching, performance management, and team development in manufacturing, operations, production, service, distribution, hospitality, or other fast‑paced operational environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing day‑to‑day operations with accountability for safety, quality, service, cost, staffing,…