Job Description

As a Production Supervisor you will lead a team of skilled or semi-skilled workers (Material Handlers and Operators) engaged in various aspects of the processing, maintenance and warehousing functions for our Temecula, California Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) business. The Production Supervisor has authority and accountability to select, train and direct their workforce, and employs key company processes effectively to achieve results. In this role you are responsible for employee engagement and maintaining a positive employee relations environment. The Production Supervisor role is often held by an entry level or early career leader who is gaining initial operations management experience at STERIS.

**This is a working supervisor role in warehouse operations, shipping, receiving, and production areas. **

**Night Shift: Three 12-hour shifts and one six-hour shift. Work 3 ½ days per week. **

Hours: Wednesday midnight to 6am on Thursday & Thursday, Friday & Saturday 6pm to 6am on Sunday.

**What You’ll Do as a Production Supervisor **

• Develop a shop floor culture that is focused on the achievement of the businesses’ objectives in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC), by continuously focusing on waste elimination and following standard work.

• Lead daily SQDC board meetings, train and develop employees to meet expectations, ensures the working environment is safe through direct monitoring of behavior and equipment, incident response, mitigation and investigation as issues occur during the shift, and providing individual and group feedback on successes and opportunities to improve performance.

• Identify opportunities for countermeasures and participate in facility lean committees.

• Support the company’s Lean business system, through participation in Kaizen events, generation of IDEaS and implementation, participation in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), One Team One Goal (OTOG) Customer Service training, and the “What’s in the Box?” product orientation program.

• First point of contact for mitigation and investigation of issues related to safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

• Participate in and support Customer quality audits.

• Participates in internal and external OTOG events.

• Drive employee engagement by implementing and using Lean processes.

• Create an environment of positive employee relations by creating a safe and productive work environment, listening to and addressing employee concerns, enforcing company policy and constructively managing employee performance. In unionized facilities or where works councils are present, understands and enforces collective bargaining agreements, shop agreements and plant rules.

• Drive employee engagement by implementing and using lean processes.

• Participate in the interviewing and selection of new employees; assures the team has necessary skill and tools to complete work, ensures that shifts are properly staffed, assigns daily work to achieve Customer objectives.

• Regularly assesses skill level and performance, and addresses gaps, to ensure employees are capable of meeting expectations.

• Ensure smooth shift transitions via personnel planning. Collaborate effectively across functions with Quality, Human Resources, Planning etc.

• Monitor processing throughout shift to assure safety, quality and delivery.

• Track procedural verifications, including dosimeter re-reads, PIs and updates SQDC boards

**The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed **

**Required: **

High School Diploma and at least 3 years of STERIS Operations experience or Operator or minimum of 5 years of related, external operational experience.

Qualified Equipment Operator, ability to drive a fork truck or willingness to get certified.

Ability to learn science of sterilization modalities.

Ability to use the four basic functions of mathematics.

Effective communication skills in conducting team meetings.

Ability to delegate, collaborate and resolve conflicts in a production environment.

Proficient with Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word.

**Preferred: **

Minimum of 2 more years of previous supervisory experience in a regulated environment (ISO, FDA, GMP.

You should be proficient in:

• Leadership / People Management
• Bachelor's Degree
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• FDA Regulations
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Supervisory Experience
• Production Optimization
• Lean Manufacturing Principles

Machines & technologies you'll use:

• Forklifts