Sr Production Supervisor (Front End Night Shift)

Dexcom, Inc.; Athenry; On-site; EUR 64,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Career development

Job summary

Dexcom Ireland is seeking a Senior Supervisor in Manufacturing to lead a production team within our Ireland factory. The role requires coordinating 24/7 operations, mentoring supervisors, and achieving delivery, quality and cost targets.

You will drive safety and continuous improvement while developing staff, managing budgetary aspects, and collaborating with cross-functional partners. The position suits experienced leaders from the medical device or digital factory sectors.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree and 6–8 years related experience (4 of which should be as Supervisor in manufacturing environment).
• Lean Six Sigma black belt or lean experience is advantageous.
• Ability to lead and develop production teams to maximize performance while focusing on delivery, cost and quality.
• Cross-functional collaboration and setting clear goals with feedback and development plans.
• Strong communication, timely feedback and adaptable style for leadership audiences.
• Adaptability in a fast-paced environment with emotional intelligence and trust-building.
• Experience in medical device industry or digital factory environment is an advantage.
• Start-up and scale-up experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a highly motivated, high-performance team.
• Address performance issues and resolve conflicts.
• Uphold safety and quality culture in production.
• Develop individuals and teams for growth and Dexcom.
• Deliver balanced scorecards with leadership alignment.
• Coordinate cross-training and business continuity planning.
• Align with the Dexcom Production System across areas.
• Drive continuous improvement in quality, cost, delivery and safety.
• Understand time studies to optimize resource use.
• Provide budgetary recommendations.
• Support new product introductions into manufacturing.

Skills

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Lean Six Sigma

Manufacturing experience

Conflict mitigation

Start-up experience

Medical device knowledge

Education

Relevant degree

Job description

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we’re just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we’ve started: Improving human health.

We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We’ve already changed millions of lives and we’re ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We’ll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we’ve come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet the team:

Are you looking to leverage your experience to be part of something big and help people take control of their health? Do you enjoy building and managing relationships to better understand the needs of the business, and then create and implement solutions to meet those needs? Do you want to be part of a high-performing team dedicated to doing the right thing? If so, then we have an opening for you!

The Ireland Operations team is actively seeking the right teammate to support the stand up of production in our Ireland factory as a Senior Supervisor in Manufacturing.

As the Senior Supervisor, you will lead and coordinate a production team operating on one of our shifts to support our overall Business Units that operates 24/7. This position will set goals, establish priorities, manage resources, develop concepts and approaches, review production performance and results, and make decisions to ensure production deliverables are achieved. This job spends a significant amount of time leading a production team as well as mentoring other supervisors

Front End Nights is 19:00 – 07:00, Monday to Thursday and Monday to Wednesday every other week.

Where you come in:

This list contains tasks that are typically associated with the job. It is not all-inclusive and Dexcom may, depending on the specific nature of the position, modify these tasks and/or identify additional tasks, based on business needs.

• Build and lead your team; ensure you have a highly motivated, high-performance team that operates to Dexcom’s desired behaviors.

• Responsible for addressing people’s performance issues and conflict resolutions if they arise

• Ensure a culture within production where Safety and Quality are a priority

• Focus on development of the individuals on the team for the benefit of the individual and Dexcom.

• Lead your production team to deliver balanced scorecard of deliverables pre agreed with the leadership team - work closely with and influencing your cross-functional partners to deliver these

• Ensure due consideration is given to cross training and business continuity to minimize interruption to production

• Ensure that you and the team operate the Dexcom Production System’.

• Engage actively as required to ensure resolution of issues and challenges.

• Coordinate and/or act as a liaison between work area, shifts, and functions.

• Ensure that the Production team executes in conformity with company and/or industry policies, procedures and regulations.

• Driving continuous improvement that will result in improvements in quality, cost, delivery and safety

• Deeply understand the time studies for your area to enable resource management to maximize performance

• Have a deep understanding of the financial associated with area of responsibility; make budgetary recommendations

• Have deep technical knowledge to help drive resolution of challenges.

• Support new product introductions into commercial manufacturing as required.

• Remain up to date on global programs that will impact teams’ execution.

What makes you successful:

• You have a relevant degree, and 6-8 years related experience (4 of which should be as Supervisor in manufacturing environment) or equivalent combination of Education and Experience. A six-sigma black belt or lean experience is advantageous.
• You will lead and develop production teams and individuals to maximize performance while focusing on delivery, cost and quality
• You will work in a cross functional team to establish clear goals and deliverable for individuals while providing feedback and development plans
• You will use effective communication skills such as active listening, expressing ideas clearly and concisely, providing timely, constructive feedback, and adapting communication style as needed for intended audience.
• You demonstrate comfort with presenting issues and challenges, along with proposed solutions, to leadership in a timely manner.
• You show the ability to flex and adapt to rapidly changing circumstances in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• You demonstrate a high level of emotional intelligence, approachability and trustworthiness.
• You have a track record of strong conflict mitigation skills.
• You have a willingness to collaborate and share knowledge cross-functionally and cross-location
• You have experience of working in the medical device industry and/or within a digital factory manufacturing environment as an advantage.
• Ideally you are experienced with start-up & scale up organizations

What you’ll get:

• A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

Travel Required:

• 0-10%

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At Dexcom, we are committed to providing a fair and inclusive recruitment process, and welcome candidates of all genders and gender identities to apply. If any wording in this description appears unintentionally gendered or exclusionary, please be assured this is not intentional.

Should a reasonable accommodation be necessary to aid a disability, requests should be sent to Dexcom Talent Acquisition at [e-mail].

The annualised base salary for this position is from €63,665.00 to €82,390.00 gross. Final offer will depend on your qualifications, competencies, and professional experience.

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