Lean Manufacturing Operations Supervisor

Viant Medical; Brimfield (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Medical, Dental & Vision

401(k)

PTO & Holidays

On-Demand Pay

Job summary

Viant Medical in Massachusetts is seeking an Operations Supervisor to lead frontline teams across shifts, drive lean manufacturing initiatives, and ensure alignment with quality, cost, and delivery goals. You will mentor Team Leads and Operators, manage training matrices, and partner with engineering, supply chain, quality, and maintenance to continuously improve performance and reduce waste.

In this role you will own department performance, adjust staffing to meet takt times, and coach teams to

Qualifications

• Management or technical degree is desirable.
• Ability to problem solve and understand problem solving methodologies.
• Understanding of and demonstrated use of Six Sigma (problem solving and variation elimination) and Lean Principles (waste elimination)
• Ability to utilize computer software such as MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Project, and to effectively provide guidance to others in the use of such software

Responsibilities

• Act as the business owner for specific departments (with a minimum of 25 team members) across all shifts.
• Adjust operator according to scheduled requirements, training needs and limitations, and established crewing models for desired tact times. Incumbent will make decisions regarding team member flexibility and reallocation in such a way that minimizes overtime and maximizes utilization of team members
• Build, lead, develop and motivate product teams. Create the culture of ownership within and across product teams that delivers optimized performance across all shifts
• Identify, understand, report, and improve manufacturing variances
• Know each customer and interface with Customer Solutions and key customers regarding delivery commitments and processing capabilities. Attend customer meetings at the facility
• Lead daily performance reviews with the Team Leads and Operators. Manages performance boards along with Team Leads. Drive actions with Team Leads according to metrics posted
• Work daily as team member with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and Maintenance, to improve performance, address issues, and solve root cause problems
• Ensure Team Leads understand and meet facility related goals for Quality, Cost and Delivery, the Viant Focus Document and their own team objectives, Interpret goals to provide meaningful daily direction to Teams.
• Drive process change resulting in efficiency improvements of >5% using lean manufacturing and six sigma techniques
• Develop and own Team based training matrices. Oversee training of new Team Leaders and operators. Ensure training records of team members are current and correct. Ensure each team has a current training matrix posted at all times
• Protect assigned teams from interruption for any reason and maximize team focus on building quality product; recommend improvements to the production process, equipment uptime and product quality. Closely monitor and reduce amount of indirect activities performed by Teams through active engagement with support team (engineering, supply chain, quality, finance, maintenance)
• Lead compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices and Good Documentation Practices through demonstration of compliance and clear communication to Team Leads and Operators
• Oversee all production personnel directly and through Team Lead input. Oversee all personnel actions – hiring, disciplinary measures, promotions, wage increases, transfers and timely performance appraisals.
• Follow and adhere to standard work
• Support and Participate in the lean manufacturing cultural change to drive out waste in manufacturing processes
• Support and Participate in Continuous Improvement activities
• Support and Participate in activities that increase the ratio of value added to non-value added processes
• Manage all time off requests for assigned lines; assure production needs are met while honoring approved time off requests
• Manage time clock punches ensuring all labor is accurately recorded and reported and complete timecard corrections required by payroll in a timely fashion
• Manage daily expectations of Standard Work as outlined by Operations Management
• Other duties as required

Skills

Team leadership

Problem solving

Lean Six Sigma

Communication

Education

Management or technical degree

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

Viant Medical in Massachusetts is seeking an Operations Supervisor to lead frontline teams across shifts, drive lean manufacturing initiatives, and ensure alignment with quality, cost, and delivery goals. You will mentor Team Leads and Operators, manage training matrices, and partner with engineering, supply chain, quality, and maintenance to continuously improve performance and reduce waste.

In this role you will own department performance, adjust staffing to meet takt times, and coach teams to