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Production Team Leader

GE HealthCare • State College, PA 16801 • Posted 10 days ago

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The Production Team Leader at GE HealthCare leads a manufacturing functional team to meet Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Innovation expectations and goals. This role involves supervising daily shift activities, collaborating with team members to foster a winning manufacturing attitude, and managing training, development, and performance of team members. The position requires compliance with plant goals, environmental, health & safety efforts, and driving LEAN manufacturing implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Compliance and Environmental, Health & Safety efforts in support of plant goals.
  • Oversight and management of front-line manufacturing employees, including hiring, employee development, and discipline responsibilities, as well as time and attendance.
  • Monitor and improve productivity, while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, and cost-conscious manner while meeting quality standards.
  • Drive LEAN manufacturing implementation and sustain/improve efforts.
  • Work with other managers throughout manufacturing to generate continuous improvement ideas and spearhead the implementation of those ideas that lead to bottom line results.
  • Track and report metrics in their functional area to include labor hour consumption, work order completion, inventory accuracy, throughput, and capacity. Establish team goals that meet or exceed established quality standards.
  • Area training ownership. Develop and create training plans to maximize workforce capability and compliance.
  • Collaborate with other PTLs to ensure alignment of functional area across manufacturing.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's degree with 5 years production, supply chain or leadership experience or High School diploma/GED and 10 years production or supply chain or leadership experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and implement best practices and deal with high levels of ambiguity.
  • Strong decision-making skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to act independently using good judgement and discretion.
  • Strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft Office suite, and standard ERP systems.

Preferred

  • Medical Device manufacturing experience
  • OMLP/ETLP graduate

About GE HealthCare

GE Healthcare is a global leader in the medical technology industry, offering a wide range of products and services across various medical specialties. It provides diagnostic imaging solutions, healthcare digital solutions, and life sciences products to enable clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions. Operating on a global scale, GE Healthcare has a significant presence in over 100 countries and collaborates with various organizations to advance healthcare technologies.

Full Job Description

**Job Description Summary**

Leads a manufacturing functional team that fully utilizes resources to meet Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Innovation expectations and goals. Supervises the daily shift activities in their assigned functional areas and collaborates with team members to cultivate a winning manufacturing attitude and creative work environment. Accountable for the training, development, and performance management of team members in a functional area.

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

**Job Description**

**Essential Responsibilities**

+ Lead Compliance and Environmental, Health & Safety efforts in support of plant goals.

+ Oversight and management of front-line manufacturing employees. Typically managing hourly employee populations. This includes hiring, employee development, and discipline responsibilities, as well as time and attendance.

+ Monitor and improve productivity, while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, and cost-conscious manner while meeting quality standards.

+ Drive LEAN manufacturing implementation and sustain/improve efforts.

+ Work with other managers throughout manufacturing to generate continuous improvement ideas and spearhead the implementation of those ideas that lead to bottom line results.

+ Track and report metrics in their functional area to include labor hour consumption, work order completion, inventory accuracy, throughput, and capacity. Establish team goals that meet or exceed established quality standards.

+ Area training ownership. Develop and create training plans to maximize workforce capability and compliance.

+ Collaborate with other PTLs to ensure alignment of functional area across manufacturing.

**Required Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's degree with 5 years production, supply chain or leadership experience or High School diploma/GED and 10 years production or supply chain or leadership experience.

+ Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.

+ Demonstrated ability to identify and implement best practices and deal with high levels of ambiguity.

+ Strong decision-making skills.

+ Demonstrated ability to act independently using good judgement and discretion.

+ Strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft Office suite, and standard ERP systems.

**Desired Characteristics**

+ Medical Device manufacturing experience

+ OMLP/ETLP graduate

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

**Relocation Assistance Provided:** Yes