Production Line Manager

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Location: Sudbury facility. Full‑time. Working hours Monday to Thursday 2:15pm–10:15pm, Friday 2:15pm–8:45pm.

Your Role

• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with Health, Safety and Environment statements, policies and procedures, and for conducting all H&S audits and annual assessments.
• You will manage a team with a focus on Safety, Quality, Customer Service and Costs, ensuring production orders are delivered on time to reduce missed customer orders.
• You will carry out regular analysis to optimize capacity plans and maintain the optimal level of direct staff.
• You will contribute actively towards reducing year‑on‑year product cost movements by improving production utilisation and efficiency, and by ensuring Continuous Improvement activities are resourced, managed and driven to successful completion.
• You will ensure that any new products enter manufacturing in a well‑planned, optimised manner, and influence product design for ease and consistency of manufacture.
• You will conduct daily, weekly and monthly planning in conjunction with the Demand Planning group to ensure customer orders are being fulfilled on time, and identify and elevate potential issues with relevant functions.
• You will work with functional groups to identify process improvements in documentation/processes (e.g. Quality Notifications) to ensure compliance.
• You will demonstrate leadership in strengthening the site continuous improvement culture, coaching and facilitating in the use of core methods such as Structured Problem Solving, Agile Visual Management and Value Stream Mapping.
• You will assist Support Engineers and the Quality group with Validation tasks requiring risk assessments and validation protocols, including plans and final reports, ensuring all manufacturing activities are undertaken in accordance with the documentation.

Your Expertise

• 2 or more years’ experience in a medical manufacturing environment (or technical manufacturing environment).
• Experience of low to medium volume manufacturing and manual processes.
• Zero defect culture. Focus on meeting customer quality and demand requirements.
• IT literate with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
• Ability to manage time effectively and a desire to succeed.
• Flexible approach with the ability to adapt according to workload.
• Self‑motivated, reliable, able to work on own initiative.

Our Benefits

• 26 days’ holiday with the option to buy or sell an additional 5.
• Up to 10% employer pension contribution.
• Share and bonus scheme.
• Access to flexible benefits from private medical insurance to dental cover.
• Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year and support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme.

Who we are

We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing.

How we work

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become part of a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals and skilled specialists who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We work together to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare for everyone, everywhere, sustainably.

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Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type: Full‑time

Job Function: Manufacturing

Industries: Medical Equipment Manufacturing, Hospitals and Health Care, and Biotechnology Research