Production Development Lead
About The Position
The Production Development Lead is a developmental leadership role on the manufacturing floor of a life sciences operation. The position learns plant operations and leads improvement processes across the floor, provides backup production supervision, enhances the plant training program, and drives continuous improvement in safety, quality, delivery, and productivity. It is a pathway toward future production leadership or process improvement positions. The role follows normal business hours, with flexibility to support a manufacturing operation that runs 24 hours a day, five days a week. Limited travel may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a similar field.
- At least 1 year of experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing operations, production scheduling, and labor utilization.
- Experience analyzing problems, identifying root causes, and implementing sustainable improvements.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Experience creating and delivering training materials and presentations.
- Availability for flexible hours to support a 24-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week operation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in production leadership, training, scheduling, continuous improvement, or workforce development.
- Experience leading teams, projects, or improvement activities.
- Experience applying Lean tools such as 5S, standard work, visual management, and Kaizen.
- Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment, such as life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or training, and experience using production, labor, or training metrics to drive improvements.
Responsibilities
- Provide backup floor supervision coverage, including assigning work, balancing labor to production demand, and escalating issues as needed.
- Support daily production schedule execution by identifying constraints, bottlenecks, and staffing gaps to improve schedule adherence and labor utilization.
- Lead and improve the plant training and cross-training program, including onboarding, qualification, training materials, and work instructions.
- Coach and develop cell leads in shift handoffs, problem solving, and day-to-day leadership practices, and coordinate communication across shifts.
- Lead Lean and continuous improvement projects using production, labor, and training data while following safety policies, quality standards, and good documentation practices.
Benefits
- Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives.
- Company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions.
- Matching contributions to a 401(k) savings plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Paid parental leave and family building support.
- Fitness benefits.
- Company-paid life insurance and disability benefits.
- Disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Employee recognition program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
