Supervisor, Manufacturing

Job Summary:

The Manufacturing Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day supervision of all manufacturing personnel within their department. This position ensures build plans are achieved with the highest level of customer satisfaction and quality, while also ensuring compliance to all regulatory and quality regulations.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Comply with the procedures defined in the Quality System, Company Policies and Malaysian Labor Law.
• Supervise hiring, training and performance of associates and leads.
• Work together with Quality and Process engineering department to clearly document steps and acceptance criteria of the product assembly in the appropriate manufacturing documentation (MAP and AP's) and Visual aids.
• Ensure and monitor that the manufacturing lines have available appropriate manufacturing documentation to assembly products such as visual aids and physical visual aids.
• Ensure manufacturing lines have printed and posted in each process workbench visual aids and physical visual aids as required for easy access of the document in a manner that the associates and leads can have product acceptance criteria as reference.
• Ensure adherence to procedures and to good manufacturing practices.
• Meet production schedule within efficiency and yield goals. Achieve company's metrics.
• Ensure Line Balancing document is available in production line and work with leads, process engineer and industrial engineer to assign workloads to each assigned work station with personnel available in order to improve efficiency, reduce/eliminate bottlenecks, minimize associates downtimes and eliminate waiting waste.
• Perform disciplinary sanctions according to internal regulations.
• Supervise proper material identification and segregation (raw material and finished product).
• Elaboration of reports requested by management.
• Support the company activities and projects.
• Report unsafe conditions or actions.
• Ensure a clean and orderly workplace.
• Make sure that all personnel wear their personal safety equipment.
• Comply with personnel rotation and ergonomic requirements.
• Perform investigations to identify non-conformant product rejection causes and actions to prevent the recurrence.

Minimum & Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Supervising experience (2 years).
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and oral form and establish professional interaction with co-workers, subordinates, Engineering, and Quality Assurance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge/experience on ISO 13485 requirements and the Quality System Regulation.
• Knowledge and experience in CGMP requirements and preferably FDA and ISO medical device requirements.
• Experience with electrical/optical products.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

This position primarily works in an office and manufacturing/production environment. It requires frequent sitting, standing, and walking. Daily use of a computer and other computing and digital devices is required. May stand for extended periods when facilitating meetings or walking in the facilities. Some local travel is necessary, so the ability to operate a motor vehicle and maintain a valid driver's license is required.

The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be made for those individuals with real or perceived disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job described.