Supervisor, Quality

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. seeks a Manufacturing Supervisor to oversee employees across production areas and ensure smooth, continuous operations.

The role involves performance reviews, work order scheduling, and monitoring productivity, quality, and training metrics while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will support staffing, participate in improvement projects with engineering, and uphold safety and regulatory requirements in a fast-paced medical device

Qualifications

• Diploma with 5 years of relevant experience in manufacturing.
• Fresh graduates welcome; internship or substantial technical knowledge in related manufacturing or quality.
• Experience in a medical device industry and working in multi-cultural teams.

Responsibilities

• Supervise employees and manufacturing activities across production areas.
• Conduct performance reviews and resolve performance issues.
• Oversee work order scheduling and team performance metrics.
• Ensure staff are trained to perform their assigned work.
• Monitor productivity, quality, and training metrics; provide regular progress reports to management.
• Ensure adequate staffing for all positions.
• Participate in improvement projects with engineering for investigations and corrective actions; review non-conformance.
• Perform other duties as required.

Education

Diploma

Tools

ERP/JDE

Job description

Supervise employees across areas of manufacturing for smooth and continuous operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise employees and manufacturing activities pertaining to the production of products and/or manufacturing processes in - and with manufacturing/technical knowledge of - 1 or more production areas, depending on the complexity of the areas
• Conduct performance reviews, including resolving performance issues
• Oversee the scheduling of work orders and team performance metrics
• Accountable to ensure staff is appropriately trained to perform assigned work
• Accountable for productivity, quality, and training metrics of staff, and provide regular progress reports and manufacturing metrics to management and cross-functional stakeholders
• Ensure appropriate staffing for all positions
• May participate in improvement projects, partner with engineering on investigations and/or corrective actions, perform non-conformance investigations for review with engineering, assures documentation content is valid
• Other incidental duties

Education and Experience:

• Other: Diploma, 5 years of relevant experience
• With internship or substantial technical knowledge and experience in related manufacturing, and/or quality
• Experience working in multi-cultural teams with cultural sensitivity
• Experience working in a medical device industry required
• Fresh graduates are welcomed to apply

Additional Skills:

• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite with working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, preferably JDE
• Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship skills; possessing strong collaboration skills in partnering with cross functional stakeholders in order to achieve objectives
• Full understanding of manufacturing procedures
• Ability to supervise/lead employees in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to analyze and identify potential line/operation layouts adjustments to improve efficiency
• Basic understanding of processes and equipment used in assigned work
• Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
• Ability to lead teams, provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts and Six Sigma
• Must be able to promote and work in an inter-departmental team environment
• Successful completion of ongoing job training of manufacturing process steps
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
• Work Hours: 8am to 5pm (Monday - Friday)
• Transport pick-up at Buona Vista, Jurong East, Yishun, Sembawang, Punggol and Tampines MRT