Production Supervisor -Weekend Shift

Phillips Medisize; Letterkenny; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Phillips Medisize is seeking a production supervisor to lead a manufacturing team focused on safely producing high-quality products. You will supervise production environments, ensure targets are met, coordinate with Quality, Engineering and Maintenance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

The role requires an engineering degree or diploma and hands-on experience in SAP and Microsoft Office. You will manage performance, training, safety, and compliance within a dynamic, high-volume

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree or Diploma level in an engineering discipline or appropriate qualification.
• Ability to manage and embrace change.
• Good people management skills.
• Experienced in SAP and the full suite of Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Achieve production targets and manage production schedules, quality standards, scrap and inventory levels.
• Oversee production activities across injection moulding, automatic and semi-automatic lines within budget targets.
• Plan and organise departmental projects, allocating resources for success.
• Manage employee performance, attendance, and disciplinary matters.
• Ensure compliance with Quality Management System and ISO standards.
• Monitor scrap, investigate losses and drive scrap reduction actions.
• Contribute to weekly scrap management and root cause analysis.
• Support customer complaints investigations and implement corrective actions with Quality.
• Raise and progress Quality Notifications on time.
• Ensure health and safety requirements and report hazards and incidents.
• Coordinate weekend-to-weekday handovers and communicate performance and needs.
• Ensure training and competency records are up-to-date.

Skills

Ability to manage and embrace change

Good people management skills

Education

Degree or Diploma in engineering

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Your Job

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the successful candidate will be an ambitious, diligent and enthusiastic individual who will join the team in supervising the production environment.

Your Job

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the successful candidate will be an ambitious, diligent and enthusiastic individual who will join the team in supervising the production environment.

Our Team

You will join a manufacturing team focused on safely producing high-quality products, meeting customer requirements and continually improving operational performance. You will work closely with employees and colleagues across Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance and other support functions.

What You Will Do

• Achieve production targets in relation to production schedules, quality standards, scrap and inventory levels.
• Manage production activities within agreed budget targets across injection moulding, automatic and semi-automatic production lines.
• Plan, prioritise and organise departmental projects, assigning resources to support their successful completion.
• Manage employee performance, including general conduct, attendance, absence management and disciplinary matters.
• Ensure compliance with the Quality Management System, applicable ISO standards and approved procedures.
• Monitor and manage production scrap, ensuring accurate recording, investigation of losses and implementation of scrap reduction actions.
• Act as a key member of weekly scrap management projects, contributing to root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support customer complaint investigations and implement agreed corrective actions in conjunction with the Quality team.
• Ensure Quality Notifications (QNs) are raised promptly, accurately completed and progressed within agreed timelines.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements, promoting safe working practices and promptly reporting and escalating hazards, incidents and near misses.
• Ensure effective weekend-to-weekday handovers, communicating production performance, staffing requirements and outstanding quality or equipment issues.
• Ensure employees are trained and competent in their assigned tasks, with accurate and up-to-date training records.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Educated to Degree or Diploma level in an engineering discipline or appropriate qualification.
• Ability to manage and embrace change
• Good people management skills
• Experienced in SAP and the full suite of Microsoft Office.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in a supervisory role with a proven track record in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

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Who We Are

Phillips Medisize, a Molex company, collaborates with industry leaders to design and manufacture drug delivery systems, medical devices and diagnostic tools that save and improve the quality of life for millions of patients annually. With our dedicated team of 6,000+ employees in 29 locations around the world, we share our customers' mindset that every product is critical to a healthcare provider and their patients somewhere in the world. Molex is a multi-sector global electronics brand owned by Koch, Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies. Discover your potential to make a difference. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.