OPERATIONS MANAGER

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for an Operations Manager! At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.
Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.
Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.
Learn more at https://www.
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Develops, supports, deploys, and ensures quality strategies and cultural initiatives.
Identifies trends and business opportunities.
Ensures the proper flow of materials by overseeing the planning, forecasting, and scheduling the efficient use of resources (labor, equipment, materials, inventory, and capacity).
Strong leadership traits and a change agent.
Strong corporate values and advocacy of innovation.
Role interfaces directly with other departments, sites and corporate functional groups to drive and/or support critical business goals/objectives within GMP/ISO compliance.
Key Responsibilities.
Plans, directs and manages challenges through leadership objectives and expectations exercising direct and indirect supervision over process and support leaders with respect to quality, delivery, cost, people and EHS.
Establishes plans on product/process continuity (Capacity, headcount, and changes in new processes or procedures).
Administers budget and headcount and conducts frequent inspections of the area equipment and overall operations to evaluate the maintenance and safety conditions to correct any malfunction and/or deficiencies to avoid any major production and/or shipping delay.
Establishes systems to ensure quality control compliance.
Encourages employee’s leadership, motivates through regulatory compliance, rewards, job enrichment, environmental, health and safety compliance and challenging assignments.
Supports and enforces employee’s training programs, team development and integration.
Acts as change agent in the Continuous Improvement process by fostering team formation and providing team members the necessary tools to be successful.
Identifies, develops and participates in continuous improvement projects (ex.
kaizen) and programs to recommend work simplification, eliminate non-value-added activities, and cost reduction.
Support and/or drive key new products initiatives.
Interacts with external Supply Chain business partners through weekly meetings Supply S&OP.
Follows, observes and promotes all regulatory requirements compliance applicable to the plant (QSR, ISO, FDA) rules, procedures, and internal policies, and directs training related activities to ensure compliance with procedures established by the Company, and ensures these are also followed and observed by personnel supervised.
Complies with all self-training and makes sure all personnel is aware of device defects which may occur from the improper performance of their specific jobs.
Be aware that all employees performing verification and/or validation activities shall be made aware of defects and errors that may be encountered as part of their job or other personnel reporting to this function Will observe all Company’s Environmental, Safety, and Industrial Hygiene policies and regulations.
Will notify any violation or deviation to the supervisor and/or Environmental Officer.
Follows all guidelines established in the organization for the implementation and continuous improvement of the ISO system.
Ensures all personnel under their facilitation complies with all Safety and Environmental policies and procedures (Plant-wide and applicable to work area).
Qualifications Education.
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science.
An MBA or Master’s degree is preferred.
Experience and Skills.
Required.
A minimum of six (6) years of experience in manufacturing control environment is required.
Experience in Medical Device or Pharmaceutical industry is required.
Experience in the development and implementation of cost reduction projects is preferred.
Experiences on supervision and project management are required.
Experience with budget, scheduling, change control, and processes knowledgeable is preferred.
Fully bilingual.
Excellent written and oral communication skills both in English and Spanish is required.
Strong organizational, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, customers, and other employees of the organization.
Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and time management.
Ability to shift priorities according to changes in department/facility needs and be open to different ideas/approaches.
Knowledge on statistics, problem solving, lean and six sigma manufacturing principles and tools is required.
Computer skills and use of software application(s).
Strong computer background (MS Office, MS Project Management, Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) is required.
Knowledge of regulatory compliance with all local and federal agencies.
FDA, EPA, OSHA, and ISO is required.
Process Excellence Belt certification (Lean or Six Sigma) is preferred.
Knowledge and understanding of ERP and other planning systems is preferred.
Other.
10% Domestic or International Travel Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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