Manufacturing Leader: Lean, Safety & Quality

HC1316 GE Precision Healthcare LLC; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GE HealthCare is seeking a production team lead to guide frontline manufacturing associates, ensuring adherence to Safety, Quality, and Manufacturing standards. This role involves supervision, planning, execution, analytics, and application of Lean principles to deliver reliability and consistency across the manufacturing process.

You will supervise and develop hourly staff, recruit, set goals, track labor hours, throughput, and inventory accuracy, and work with cross-functional managers to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with minimum 5 years production, supply chain or leadership experience or High School diploma/GED and minimum 10 years production or supply chain or leadership experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement best practices and deal with high levels of ambiguity.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to act independently using good judgement and discretion.
• Strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft Office suite, and standard ERP systems.
• Medical Device manufacturing experience #LI-VS1
• We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Responsibilities

• Lead Compliance and Environmental, Health & Safety efforts in support of plant goals.
• Oversight and management of front-line manufacturing employees.
• Typically managing hourly employee populations.
• This includes hiring, employee development, and discipline responsibilities, as well as time and attendance.
• Monitor and improve productivity, while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, and cost-conscious manner while meeting quality standards.
• Drive LEAN manufacturing implementation and sustain/improve efforts.
• Work with other managers throughout manufacturing to generate continuous improvement ideas and spearhead the implementation of those ideas that lead to bottom line results.
• Track and report metrics in their functional area to include labor hour consumption, work order completion, inventory accuracy, throughput, and capacity.
• Establish team goals that meet or exceed established quality standards.
• Area training ownership.
• Develop and create training plans to maximize workforce capability and compliance.
• Collaborate with other PTLs to ensure alignment of functional area across manufacturing.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Team leadership

Safety compliance

ERP systems

Microsoft Office

Manufacturing analytics

Hiring & discipline

Education

Bachelor’s degree with minimum 5 years production, supply chain or leadership experience

High School diploma/GED with minimum 10 years production or supply chain or leadership experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

ERP systems

Job description

GE HealthCare is seeking a production team lead to guide frontline manufacturing associates, ensuring adherence to Safety, Quality, and Manufacturing standards. This role involves supervision, planning, execution, analytics, and application of Lean principles to deliver reliability and consistency across the manufacturing process.

You will supervise and develop hourly staff, recruit, set goals, track labor hours, throughput, and inventory accuracy, and work with cross-functional managers to