Production Team Leader

About the company:

Our Fermoy, Ireland, facility is FDA registered and certified to ISO 13485 for the manufacture of high-quality PCBAs, subassemblies and complete devices up to and including Class III medical devices.

Sanmina Fermoy’s core specialization is manufacturing automation. We provide services for the entire product lifecycle from New Product Introduction (NPI), prototyping and process validation to complex volume manufacturing & test, shipping and repair. We create a state-of-the-art environment for manufacturing medical and other high-quality devices. The facility has a track record of 30 years of outstanding operational performance and customer service, backed by a highly experienced workforce

We hire people with a range of skills, experience, and backgrounds to fulfill roles in careers such as engineering, quality and manufacturing to name just a few.

OBJECTIVES OF POSITION:

• Quality: It is the responsibility of the Section Leader to ensure production operators assemble, test and handle all products in line with the documented specification and processes, thus ensuring that all products supplied to our customers are to the highest possible quality levels and conform to all specification requirements
• Productivity: Working as part of the manufacturing team to produce the correct number of products in line with the production plans as communicated by Supervisors. These products must be available to ensure the correct levels of delivery performance to our customers
• Teamwork: All employees will be part of a team committed to a goal of total customer satisfaction and will be required to participate as a team member during each day of their employment

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Output Target

• Achieve hourly and daily targets

• Ensure team is busy 100% of shift

Quality

• Communicate quality issues daily
• Counsel / retrain operators on quality issues
• Ensure Immediate communication on fails
• Monitor scrap levels from area on a daily basis and reduce accordingly

Attendance / Timekeeping

• Monitor / feedback on a daily basis

• Meet employees on day of return from absence

• Counsel / discipline as required in consultation with Supervisor/HR

• Report weekly to Supervisor on absence

Discipline

• Conduct Informal discussion (file note)

• Conduct counseling sessions and complete file note

• Issue disciplinary action (Verbal warning) with Supervisor and/or HR

Induction of new employees

• Ensure new employee’s are “buddied up” during transition

• Ensure new employee’s know product, process

• Ensure new employee’s know work instructions, DDS, etc..

Grievance

• Resolve operational issues eg. Work load, tools etc
• Report other grievances to Supervisor

Documentation

• Ensure Operators are aware of and adhere to all relevant procedures

Process Adherence

• Ensure all work instructions followed

• Ensure employees are trained continually / recertification as necessary

• Counsel / discipline on non-adherence

Safety/Housekeeping

• Be familiar with SANM Safety policy
• Ensure all PPE is worn

• Ensure all employee’s follow all safety guidelines

• Counsel / discipline on non conformance/adherence
• Ensure working area is orderly and organised

Communications

• Conduct “Start up meeting” on every shift

(quality, targets, safety, other)

• Actively support and facilitate team meetings
• Ensure effective communications within own team and with other sections of the company

Shipment Updates

• Flag potential shipment delays (early) to Supervisor

Training

• Define training requirements by process/product

• Achieve training plan

• Participate actively in the Section Leader development program and complete successfully

Performance Reviews

• Monitor/Assess employee’s performance on an ongoing basis

• Complete 3 month / 6 month / annual appraisals on time

Holidays

• Ensure adequate shift coverage

• Ensure no more than –39 hours holiday balance

Payroll

• Spend 5 mins every day checking and where necessary updating system
• Ensure 100% accuracy

• Prepare accurate timesheets

Recruitment

• Advise Supervisor of requirements

• Ensure all new employee’s are inducted

Overtime

• Section Leader minimises need for overtime
• Advises in advance of any requirement

Reports – Key Metrics

• Report on absence

• Equal Opportunities

• Encourage and support equal opportunity practices

ESSENTIAL SPECIFICATIONS:

• Team lead experience in a fast paced and heavily regulated manufacturing facility
• A results driven & quality conscious individual
• A sound understanding of Standard Operating Procedures, line documentation and customer specific requirements.
• Excellent communicator
• High degree of initiative
• Assertive with good people skills
• Flexible / adaptable