Senior Manufacturing Supervisor - Front End Day Shift

Meet the team

The Ireland Operations team is actively seeking the right teammate to support the stand up of production in our Ireland factory as a Senior Supervisor in Manufacturing.

As the Senior Supervisor, you will lead and coordinate a production team operating on one of our shifts to support our overall Business Units that operates 24/7. This position will set goals, establish priorities, manage resources, develop concepts and approaches, review production performance and results, and make decisions to ensure production deliverables are achieved. This job spends a significant amount of time leading a production team as well as mentoring other supervisors.

Shift Schedule

• Front End Day shift: 12 hour day shift (7:00am - 7:00pm)
• Every Monday to Wednesday and alternate Thursdays following a repeating 4 on/3 off - 3 on/4 off schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead your team; ensure you have a highly motivated, high-performance team that operates to Dexcom's desired behaviours.
• Responsible for addressing people's performance issues and conflict resolutions if they arise.
• Ensure a culture within production where Safety and Quality are a priority.
• Focus on development of the individuals on the team for the benefit of the individual and Dexcom.
• Lead your production team to deliver balanced scorecard of deliverables pre agreed with the leadership team - work closely with and influencing your cross functional partners to deliver these.
• Ensure due consideration is given to cross training and business continuity to minimize interruption to production.
• Ensure that you and the team operate the Dexcom Production System.
• Engage actively as required to ensure resolution of issues and challenges.
• Coordinate and/or act as a liaison between work area, shifts, and functions.
• Ensure that the Production team executes in conformity with company and/or industry policies, procedures and regulations.
• Drive continuous improvement that will result in improvements in quality, cost, delivery and safety.
• Deeply understand the time studies for your area to enable resource management to maximize performance.
• Having a deep understanding of the financial associated with area of responsibility; make budgetary recommendations.
• Have deep technical knowledge to help drive resolution of challenges.
• Support new product introductions into commercial manufacturing as required.
• Remain up to date on global programs that will impact teams' execution.

What makes you successful

• You will lead and develop production teams and individuals to maximize performance while focusing on delivery, cost and quality.
• You will work in a cross functional team to establish clear goals and deliverable for individuals while providing feedback and development plans.
• You will use effective communication skills such as active listening, expressing ideas clearly and concisely, providing timely, constructive feedback, and adapting communication style as needed for intended audience.
• You demonstrate comfort with presenting issues and challenges, along with proposed solutions, to leadership in a timely manner.
• You show the ability to flex and adapt to rapidly changing circumstances in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• You demonstrate a high level of emotional intelligence, approachability and trustworthiness.
• You have a track record of strong conflict mitigation skills.
• You have a willingness to collaborate and share knowledge cross functionally and cross location.
• You have experience of working in the medical device industry and/or within a digital factory manufacturing environment as an advantage.
• A Six Sigma Green Belt qualification is essential, while a Black Belt qualification would be advantageous.
• Ideally you are experienced with start up & scale up organizations.

Education & Experience

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree with 6-8 years of manufacturing industry experience and previous formal management/team lead experience.

What you'll get

• A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave community.
• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• An exciting and innovative, industry leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.