Production Manager

Sudbury, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

Production Manager – Sudbury, Suffolk

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

At Sudbury Diagnostics, we are honoured to be a global leading manufacturer in the assembly of specialist instrumentation for laboratories and hospitals across the world for Urinalysis, Diabetes, and Blood Gas analytics.

Apply now for the position of Production Manager and you will lead and inspire Manufacturing teams to act in a safely manner and deliver quality products to our end customer.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Your role:

• You will be responsible for managing the production operation with focus on Safety & wellbeing, Quality, Customer Service and Costs ensuring all product lines are driving to achieve due dates thus reducing potential for missed customer orders.
• You will drive development within the department to ensure a cross trained team both at Production line manager and Operator levels. This needs to take in to account any succession planning and identification of future leaders.
• You will carry out regular broad load trend analysis, to optimize capacity plans and to maintain the optimal level of direct staff. This will include review of departmental (and by costs centre) the utilization & efficiency levels of the operations to identify root cause of lost productivity. These reviews will result in the setting of budgets annually for all spend, resource requirements and capital expenditure.
• You will drive and contribute actively towards reducing year-on-year product cost movements by improving production utilization & efficiency and ensuring all Continuous Improvement activities are resourced, managed and driven to successful completion.
• You will be responsible for compliance with and support the Health, Safety and Environment statements, policies and procedures as well as ensuring that all H&S audits are carried out accordingly as well as annual assessments. To investigate any EHS incident raised within the area to drive to a Zero Harm culture.
• You will be part of any New Product introduction teams. To ensure that any new products enter manufacturing in a well-planned/optimized manner, and to influence product design for ease and consistency of manufacture. This is to include the documentation to support manufacturing processes and any necessary validation activities.
  
  

Your expertise:

• 5 or more years’ proven experience as a Leader in a GMP manufacturing management environment
• IT literate with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
• You will have a flexible approach and ability to adapt according to workload.
• You are self-motivated, reliable, able to work on own initiative, manage time effectively and possess a desire to succeed.
• You will demonstrate strong leadership and cross functional collaboration.
• You will be a change agent with the ability to motivate and empower teams to deliver.
• You will demonstrate strong leadership and cross functional collaboration.
• You will possess strong experience in people management.
  
  

Who we are:

We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. Check our Careers Site at https://jobs.siemens.com/careers

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