Production Section Supervisor

Role Overview

The Production Section Supervisor monitors and manages daily production to meet Delivery, Quality, Productivity, Cost and Safety targets. The role is data-driven: it consolidates and analyzes labour hours, downtime, raw material consumption and non-quality cost, reports to the Production Manager and follows up with action plans. The post-holder works with Planning, Controller, Warehouse, Procurement, Maintenance, QC and Engineering to solve problems and improve production toward Manufacturing Excellence in a medical device manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

Productivity and Daily Management

• Monitor and follow up Direct Labour (DL) hours against the workload schedule from Production Planning, and prepare the Weekly Productivity Report.
• Be responsible for Short Interval Management: update daily information and scheduling plans covering delivery, quality, productivity, cost and safety, with the Weekly Production Report.
• Coordinate production activities with Procurement, Maintenance and Quality Control to achieve optimum use of people, machines and equipment.

Data Consolidation, Analysis and Reporting

• Consolidate and analyze all production records (time cards, downtime summaries, action reports, scheduling data) and send reports to the Production Manager.
• Work with the Controller and Warehouse to monitor and analyze weekly raw material (RM) consumption with accurate data, and prepare action plan reports.
• Record and report Non-Quality Cost weekly, with action plans.
• Analyze production, quality control and maintenance data to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and of operating or production problems.

Problem Solving and Improvement

• Take part in solving technical, quality and people issues to ensure smooth operation, such as manpower arrangement, machine utilization and standard time improvement.
• Participate in NCP investigations to find root causes and prepare CAPA.
• Support the development and improvement of work systems and production technologies to move toward Manufacturing Excellence.
• Consult with engineering personnel on modifications to machines and equipment to improve production and product quality.

Compliance

• Support and cooperate with the environmental management system (ISO 14001).
• Support compliance with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice for Medical Devices (GDPMD) for importing and selling medical devices.

Requirements

Education : Bachelor of Engineering or a relevant field

Experience :Minimum 8 years in the engineering field or production management

Competency : Good command of English; computer literate in MS Office

Systems : SAP / ERP experience

Training : Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma