Production Manager

Waters Corporation is seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented, and dynamic leader to oversee our assembly operations within the manufacturing division. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for excellence in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) performance. The successful candidate will manage approximately 35-50 employees across multiple shifts including production leads, ensuring the seamless execution of production processes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement.

• Champion a physically and mentally safe environment for all employees and coworkers, creating high self-awareness and demonstrated injuries reduction over time until reaching 0 incidents.
• Creating a work environment where employees are energized, excited, and motivated to continuously improve value stream processes, delight our customers, and accomplish both individual and team goals and objectives.
• Meet all performance measures and targets associated with Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery.
• Achieve production plans meeting attainment targets, tactical delivery plan to market and ultimately product availability for customers via high production performance.
• Meeting DL: ABS cost as well as achieving expected labor & line efficiency, reaching the absorption targets with the resources required.
• To develop initiatives, cost action or cost improvement towards excellence.
• Develops the technical capability of the workforce and leadership through ongoing training methodology, improving employee’s flexibility and individual capability.
• Sponsored the lean operating system transformation process to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Champion the implementation of a future state map and create a plan for adherence to the new processes.
• Ensure production leadership participation and commitment to the planning handshake. Provide insights into headcounts availability and constraint time so that consensus for the plan be effective.
• Demonstrate, teach, certify, and deploy root cause problem solving, making sure the production team address the problems systematically (5W, 3S). Lead kaizen events as expected in collaboration with CI partners.
• Execute rapid market delivery strategy creating production flow between processes and therefore reduce processing lead times.
• Manage departmental employees establishing clear goals and expectations, providing the resources they need to do their jobs and ensuring their development.
• Consistently apply talent management process, identify key resources, and develop career plans.
• Directly responsible for achieving the Annual Operation Plan (AOP) results and the subsequent performance management of all direct reports.
• Develops complete understanding of the entire process of each product line (current state) including production bottlenecks and risks to the process that could stop or slow process flow.
• Monitor KPIs routinely to ensure current production, quality, and cost targets are achieved using daily management structure to ensure sustainability and develop a performance culture.
• Monitor and evaluate the effect of process changes and adjust as necessary to ensure maximum benefit of any changes.
• Performs other job-related duties assigned.

• A bachelor's degree and/or combination of education in industrial engineering or related experience. A master’s degree in an Engineering, Technical or Business discipline is preferred.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in operations is required, preferably in an electronic, medical device or biotechnology industry.
• P&L responsibility for a product line or manufacturing department or site. Thorough understanding of financial metrics and performance KPIs.
• Strong Continuous Improvement and Safety focus,…