Job Description

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

As a Production Supervisor (Days) you will lead a team of skilled and semi-skilled workers in various aspects of processing, maintenance, and warehousing functions for the STERIS Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) plant location in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In this role you will be responsible for the selection, training, and work direction for your team, and employ key company processes to effectively achieve results. The Production Supervisor will positively influence employee engagement and maintain a positive work culture and employee relations environment.

DAY SHIFT : Hours are 6:45 am to 7:00 pm with rotating weekends off.

Week 1: Work Mon & Tues, Off Wed & Thurs, Work Fri, Sat & Sun

Week 2: Off Mon &Tues, Work Wed & Thurs, then have a 3-day Weekend Off!

What you’ll do as a Production Supervisor

• Develop a shop floor culture focused on the achievement of the businesses’ objectives in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC), by continuously focusing on waste elimination and following standard work.
• Lead daily SQDC board meetings, trains and develops employees to meet expectations, ensure the working environment is safe through direct monitoring of behavior and equipment, incident response, mitigation and investigation as issues occur during the shift.
• Provide individual and group feedback on successes and opportunities to improve performance.
• Identify opportunities for countermeasures and participates in facility lean committees.
• Support the company’s Lean business system, through participation in Kaizen events, participation in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), One Team One Goal (OTOG) Customer Service training/ participation.
• Act as first point of contact for mitigation and investigation of issues related to safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

• Drive employee engagement by implementing and using Lean processes.
• Create an environment of positive employee relations by creating a safe and productive work environment, listening to and addressing employee concerns, enforcing company policy and constructively managing employee performance.
• Interview and select new employees and assures the team has necessary skill and tools to complete work; ensure that shifts are properly staffed and assign daily work to achieve objectives and ensure smooth shift transitions.  
• Assess skill level and performance, and address gaps ensuring employees are capable of meeting expectations.
• Collaborate across functions with Quality, Human Resources, and Planning, and supports customer quality audits.
• Ensure appropriate performance levels and tracks KPI across a range of activities and standard process metrics. Updates SQDC boards.

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed

Required:

• Minimum High School Diploma or GED, required.
• Minimum of 3 years of internal STERIS experience in manufacturing, processing or warehouse environment, or a minimum of 5 years of related operations experience. 
• Experience driving a fork truck or forklift.
• Ability to learn science of sterilization modalities for sterile processing of medical instruments.
• Understanding of the four basic functions of mathematics as it applies to a production environment. 
• Effective communication skills and ability to conduct team meetings.
• Ability to effectively employ delegation, collaboration, conflict resolution skills in a team environment.
• Microsoft Office (Knowledge of MS Office 365 including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Preferred: 

• Associate’s degree, or Bachelor’s degree, preferred
• Experience working in a regulated environment FDA ISO Medical device, preferred 
• Previous experience as supervisor, preferred
• Qualified Equipment Operator or Certified Forklift Operator, preferred.

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, wellbeing, and financial future.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision benefits
• Long- and Short-Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add- on benefits / discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.  WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047 . This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.  We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.

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