Job Summary
The Team Leader is responsible for maintaining production schedules and directing the activities of team members in line with operational, quality, health & safety work instructions, and procedures and policies to ensure the production of quality product in a timely, safe, efficient and compliant manner.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the operations shift team (including key support department team members) to meet targets for product quality, customer delivery and cost whilst ensuring a safe and cGMP compliant work environment at all times.
- Deploy, promote and lead the use of lean tools within the team to drive continuous improvement and process reliability.
- Lead the team in achieving a compliant culture with respect to EHS, cGMP, inventory control and Quality System requirements.
- Promote Jabil’s values and behaviors.
- Lead shift daily operations meetings reviewing production data, machines running status, escalations and corrective action to ensure shift targets are achieved.
- Ensure regular communication with team through visual management systems.
- Coordinate operator training in order to perform assigned tasks across production cells.
- Responsible for ensuring the immediate team is trained in their roles and to support the development of standard work, documentation, training, and WI activities where appropriate.
- Create a high performing flexible team which achieves excellent results through coaching / mentoring & effective performance management.
- Plan all people, material and machine resources to support weekly production schedules.
- Ensure all injection molding, tool and assembly changeover activities are completed as scheduled along with appropriate line clearance procedures to meet cGMP compliance.
- Ensure that batches are manufactured within the validated set up at all times and the quality team are provided with samples for outgoing testing throughout the batch.
- Lead area 5S program to ensure that housekeeping, cGMP and safety issues are resolved in a timely and systematic manner thus meeting all company safety, environmental and quality initiatives.
- Facilitate, and ensure where appropriate, that equipment and area cleaning, preventative maintenance, calibration schedules, inventory controls and bar-coding systems are adhered to as per cGMP requirements.
- Implement company policies.
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Job Qualifications
KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
- Excellent lean operations leadership, organizational and communication skills.
- Performance and results driven.
- Ability to motivate self and others.
- Excellent initiative and decision making capability.
- Ability to work in a team and foster an effective team environment.
- High level of cGMP, safe working practices and awareness.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, MS Project and ERP systems.
- Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Minimum 3-5 years in Injection Molding and/or Automated assembly experience preferred.
- Minimum 2 years supervisory/leadership experience preferred. You will be indirectly leading a team of 10-20 people.
- Level 7 or 8 HETAC Science / Engineering qualification in relevant discipline preferred.
- Level 7 management / relevant supervisory management qualification preferred.
- Qualification & experience in Lean Six Sigma preferred.
- Experience in medical device injection molding and assembly operations preferred.
- Or a combination of education, experience and/or training.