Supervisor, Production Management- B Shift

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, hardworking people to join Alcon! As a Manufacturing Production Supervisor supporting the production team, you will be responsible for leading an assembly and/or packaging team of line coordinators, production specialists, and operators to manufacture medical devices at our Manufacturing Facility in  Houston, TX.   Specifics include:

• Supervising processes, identifying problems, and initiating appropriate corrective actions.

• Providing front-line supervision, leadership, and work direction to production teams, including time and attendance, performance management, training oversight, and development.

• Leading day-to-day production operations and continuously supervising results to ensure alignment with goals.

• Developing organizational capability to identify and resolve operational issues quickly and effectively.

• Handling conflict and dealing efficiently with others in a diverse workforce.

• Settling and communicating planning priorities and production schedules, and resolving potentially conflicting priorities with other departments.

• Tracking, evaluating, controlling, and reporting on key manufacturing performance indicators as well as corrective and preventive actions.

• Handling multiple priorities, and efficiently holding others accountable for results

• Monitoring, analyzing, and recommending/implementing improvements to better apply labor, raw materials, and equipment.

• Critically reviewing operations for ways to improve regulatory compliance, product quality, and/or productivity.

• Building a positive work environment that engages associates and enables and rewards strong performance.

• Ensuring fair and consistent treatment of all associates, following company policies & procedures, as well as employment law.

• Developing team goals that align with the department’s annual objectives and encouraging individual growth and contributions by team members.

• Ensuring regular communication of company and department objectives to all team members.

• Optimizing and continuously improving the manufacturing process.

• Leading and implementing continuous improvement processes within the manufacturing area using industry-known lean manufacturing.

• Implementing and leading all aspects of programs that encourage adherence to HSE (Health, Safety, & Environmental) standards and priorities.

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +10 yrs; Assoc.+16yrs; M.S.+0 yrs)

• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English

• 2 Years of relevant experience

• 1 Years of demonstrated leadership

• Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and learnings as work evolves!

• Join Alcon’s mission to provide top-tier, innovative products and solutions to enhance sight & enhance lives.

• Grow your career in a highly collaborative and diverse environment.

• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off for salaried associates, paid time off for hourly associates and much more!

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Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.