Production Team Leader

Role Summary: We are looking to strengthen our team with an additional Production Team Leader for the manufacturing organization Please apply no later than August 19th. For questions, please contact the recruiting manager Jörgen Lundström (+46 738674453)

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to the manufacturing team.
• To meet customer demands and requirements by quality, cost, stock level and delivery improvement.
• Be responsive to customer, business and partners in the company.
• Energize employees and encourage employee involvement to drive change and workforce engagement.
• Develop the production team with lean manufacturing tools and methodologies in driving process improvements.
• In leadership develop, coach and counsel the individual of the teams.
• Set goals and objectives for the teams from departments goals and the sites SII process
• Be responsible for department goals in quality, cost, schedule, compliance and safety (EHS).
• Track, monitor and execute on production financials (E.g. C&B, WIP, Stock)
• Identify and drive productivity projects to meet SII operating plan commitments and business objectives
• Evaluation, salary revision and discussion on employee progress, EMS
• Responsibility for quality and deliveries

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Education in production, business, operations management, engineering, finance or related field
• Previous leadership experience in a manufacturing/services/operations environment
• Proven capability to drive and accelerate change across an organization
• Must be comfortable working in an environment of on-going change management continuous improvement of business processes and to drive the on-going delivery of results for the organization.
• Excellent team facilitation skills and business acumen competencies.
• Excellent communication, team building and energizing skills.

Desired Characteristics:

• Clear thinker, external focus with inclusive leader capabilities and strong employee advocacy skills.
• LEAN manufacturing experience comfortable with tools and methods.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Understanding or experience from Lifesciences customers, needs and applications