Production Supervisor Assembly

West Pharmaceutical Services
Tempe, AZ
Category Operations
Job Description
At West, we’re a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life-saving and life-enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West’s indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun. A name started our story. How will yours help write our future?

Requirements

  • Effective employee relations
  • Employee coaching, development, and performance reviews
  • Hiring, termination, and disciplinary process for production area personnel
  • Resolves employee issues through problem resolution
  • Ensures applicable training and compliance associated with work area and products
  • Shift personnel scheduling and assignments
  • Verbal communications and visual checks of all work activity
  • Ensures quality requirements are being fulfilled
  • Provides feedback to proper departments regarding production, quality, engineering, and personnel issues
  • Direct and assists training of all production floor positions
  • Ensures work areas are kept clean, orderly, and safe
  • Makes frequent safety inspections with follow-through reporting and/or corrective actions
  • Responsible for finalizing all necessary data that is required for a timely, shift-to-shift transition
  • Assists in the decision-making process in regard to cycle standards and process changes
  • Lead continuous process improvement efforts to reduce scrap, cycle times, improve efficiency, and eliminate waste within the production environment
  • Supervise shift personnel in the manufacture of customer products consistent with high quality and safety standards
  • Troubleshoot problems arising on the shop floor as it relates to injection molding product quality and automation systems for throughput and yields
  • Maintain close observation of orders to keep informed of manufacturing status and, when needed, initiate the necessary steps to conform to schedule
  • Promote and support site initiatives including safety programs, lean initiatives, training programs
  • Recommend and implement measures to motivate employees and to encourage employees to recommend ways to improve process, quality, safety and efficiency
  • Routinely evaluate employee performance and identify training needs
  • Coach and counsel employees for performance, attendance and behavior
  • Participate in the resolution of employee relations issues
  • Review and approve work time in the appropriate timekeeping system
  • Maintain and verify accuracy of the hours each employee has worked
  • Adjust direct labor to support demand and manage available resources to ensure on time production and delivery of customer orders
  • Ensure SOPs, cGMP, OSHA and Safety regulations are followed
  • Perform routine visual inspection of work areas for unusual occurrences, safety hazards, housekeeping, work space organization and generate work orders where appropriate
  • Liaise with internal and external customers and other departments as appropriate
  • Participate in special project teams as assigned
  • Conforms with and abides by all laws, regulations, policies, work procedures, instruction, and all safety rules
  • Exhibits regular, reliable, punctual and predictable attendance

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Employee assistance program
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Employee recognition and reward programs
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