Production Shift Supervisor

Conteúdo do emprego

The Shift Supervisor is responsible for the organization and supervision of all activities related to cartridge production in order to guarantee high quality and on-time delivery.

Accountabilities

Maintaining a clean, GMP-compliant and safe working environment:

• Ensure all rooms used by production teams are kept tidy and clean.
• Ensure all cleaning activities are performed and documented according to the related procedures.
• Ensure behavior of production personnel according to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) rules & regulations and the Biocartis policies on safety & quality.
• Report and follow-up of safety issues.

Daily management of production team:

• Make firm decisions that guarantee output, safety, quality and efficiency.
• Completes production plan by scheduling and assigning personnel; monitoring progress; revising schedules; resolving problems; reporting on shift production summaries.
• Ensure operation of equipment by calling for repairs.
• Coaching, counseling and disciplining employees.
• Coordinate and follow-up of training production personnel (completion, needs, documentation, assure knowledge transfer in production team).
• Initiate and foster a spirit of cooperation within and between production shifts and lines.
• Ensure knowledge / information transfer over different shifts.

Ownership for processes related to cartridge production:

• Ensure cartridge production and related processes (e.g. IPC testing or spot solution preparation) are performed according to approved procedures and work instructions.
• Ensure that the finished goods satisfy the Biocartis standards in terms of quality, cost, timeliness of delivery and the applicable compliance and legal standards.
• Maintain and make use of visual management of manufacturing performance indicators.

Supporting tasks to production team:

Quality related:

• Report and follow-up of issues, non-conformities or complaints.
• Review and completion of necessary documentation (e.g. batch records,…).
• Responsible for keeping production records and work instructions up to date.
• Ensure any failed material is correctly quarantined.

Efficiency related:

• Follow-up output and daily KPIs and use these data to grow.
• Stimulate flow (standard work / material flow / 5S / …
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement of processes, process flows, process efficiencies, lead times, cost of goods, etc.

Contact person for production team to internal and external partners:

• Contact to teams for production planning of cartridge orders.
• Contact to teams for planning and organization of technical interventions.
• Support the start-up of new products and manufacturing processes.
• Support internal and external visitors (including audits).
• Act as production representative in multidisciplinary teams.

Profile requirements

• Technical High school / Bachelor background or equivalent by experience.
• Min. 2 years of experience as shift supervisor required or equivalent by relevant experience.
• Min. five years’ experience in a manufacturing organization producing medical devices, pharmaceuticals or in-vitro diagnostics. Working within an ISO13485 / GMP compliant environment is a must.
• Experience working in a controlled environment.
• Team leader with well-developed interpersonal skills
• Motivator and enthusiastic coach
• Analytical mindset and problem solver
• Very good communicational and organizational skills
• Result oriented and driven
• Willing to work in 2 shifts (early/late), fixed night or on weekends
• Knowledge of lean principles is an asset
• Planning and Organization: Time & priority management: plans activities effectively with respect for priorities and deadlines.
• Communicating & Influencing: Communicates with persuasion: presents, explains and defends a complex message in a clear and concise way and persuades different stakeholders.
• Adaptability to change: Supporting & facilitating change: enables and shapes change, helps others to understand the need for change and adapt to it.
• Resilience: Maintains self-control, direction and effectiveness in high pressure situations.
• Coaching & Development: Provides ongoing feedback, creates development opportunities and plans to meet employees’ needs and aspirations.
• PC skills: MS Office
• Languages: Advanced knowledge, orally and in writing of Dutch, preferably also English

Our offering

We offer you an exciting job in a fast growing international and innovative environment where you can work with top entrepreneurs in the biotech industry. You can be part of a very dynamic, young and growing team. You will have freedom to shape your work and shape your job where you deem it necessary: we value your input. Of course we offer you an appropriate compensation package.