Job Description
Production Team Leader: Lead a team of production professionals to achieve high-quality results and meet customer needs.
At Siemens Healthineers, we pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. Our mission is to help improve people's lives around the world. As a Production Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of production professionals to achieve high-quality results and meet customer needs.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Assume responsibility for your area and be accountable for all aspects of the team's performance.
- Act as first point of contact for issues and seek resolution using the skills and resources of the team.
- Work with support functions to ensure customer needs are met with an emphasis on delighting the customer.
- Implement schedules, methods, and processes, allocate manpower and resources, identify problems, and provide solutions and improvements.
**Requirements:**
- 2-5 years of experience in a similar manufacturing environment.
- Self-motivated and capable of motivating team members to meet team and plant objectives.
- Leaving Cert or equivalent, and a third-level qualification is an advantage.
- Leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, planning, analytical/problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge and experience of Materials/Inventory planning systems is essential.
- SAP experience required.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) required.
**Attributes and Skills:**
- Achieve total flexibility within your team through multi-skilling and cross-training.
- Manage employee rotation in a timely and collaborative manner between different production areas.
- Assist in setting and achieving team objectives, identify, execute, and manage training and development needs.
- Through positive leadership, be goal-focused and serve as a role model for the team, promoting the Siemens values and behaviors.
- Meet production schedules and customer scheduled delivery dates through effective use of available resources and manufacturing best practices.
- Strive for continuous improvement through support of improvement projects.
- Participate and lead in the use of 3i, PDCA, 5 S, Kaizen, A3, and Six Sigma tools.
- Foster good employee relations through effective feedback and two-way communication.
- Cultivate a high-performance, self-directed work ethic amongst teams through people-centric leadership style.
**Our Global Team:**
We are a team of over 70,000 highly dedicated employees across more than 70 countries, passionately pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare to help improve people's lives around the world.
**Our Culture:**
We are part of an incredible community of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists pushing the boundaries of what's possible, to improve people's lives around the world.