Manufacturing Supervisor
Description
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About the Company
Biolinq is a venture-backed digital health company developing a wearable biosensor platform that measures biomarkers important to the management of many clinical conditions including diabetes. This dynamic role is a part of a team of engineers and scientists developing a novel intradermal biosensor technology and the associated software data extraction and rendering SDK that will transform the way people manage their metabolic health.
Job Purpose
Responsible for overseeing and organizing the activities and resources in the manufacturing area to meet daily production schedule and product quality requirements, including scheduling and routine production activities as well as acting as the first line of support for troubleshooting should problems arise.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage daily manufacturing activities to achieve production plans. Coordinate daily work rotation schedules based on needs.
- Responsible for performance metrics for manufacturing area, including safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
- Facilitation of daily meetings to review progress, issues, schedule.
- Assist with designing an efficient layout of equipment and flow of materials to maximize utilization.
- Assist with reviewing and committing production plan daily based on resource availability.
- Responsible for initial support and resolution of issues. Escalate issues through department manager and supporting teams to minimize impact on metrics.
- Ensure vigilance to GMP/GDP compliance and safety adherence by manufacturing team. Ensure assembler training to latest revisions.
- Hire, onboard, train, and assess performance of manufacturing team.
- Manage overtime, attendance, disciplinary issues, daily supervision, and performance evaluation for manufacturing team. Help staff succeed by providing coaching and performance communication to support development.
- Analyze manufacturing data and identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement; identify and utilize methods of making manufacturing process more efficient and effective.
- Maintain assigned area in a well-organized and clean manner (5S).
- Maintain cross-training skill assessment for resource continuity.
- Manage inventory levels and material replenishment for area.
- Support testing, data collection, report writing, and documentation updates as needed.
- Support and perform as back–up scheduler.
- Assumes and performs other duties as assigned.