Production Manager Assembly Operations

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. is a leader in medical technology, pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. The Production Manager for Assembly Operations will oversee all production operations within a plant, ensuring adherence to production standards and managing workflow processes to achieve quality and delivery targets.

Responsibilities:

• Drives the strategic development of the organization unit(s) assigned
• Implements defined superior policies and guidelines, and defines and ensures implementation of function specific processes, procedures, methods and/or tools
• Ensures adherence at any time to relevant internal and local EHS-standards
• Plans and proposes unit’s budget and decides and allocates financial and personnel resources, within given limits
• Manages and develops all the respective work flow process to ensure all production targets (Quality, Quantity, Delivery in time) are achieved
• Designs and proposes short- and midterm development of his production unit (continuous improvement), and sets up and monitors completion of agreed investment projects
• Ensures optimum machine utilization and product scheduling
• Ensures availability of working instructions, rules and guidelines for all productions sections, shifts or production lines assigned
• Contributes to and implements productions plans
• Evaluates and contributes to implementation of maintenance programs
• Contributes to planning and supervision of contractor work orders
• Cooperates with concerned Sales, Project Management and other technical and support functions to execute the manufacturing program
• Manages organization unit(s) assigned, and leads and/or coordinates dedicated Management, Professionals and staff

Requirements:

• Implements defined overall production standards, and oversees and manages all production operations, within a single plant or site, which may include area related maintenance and engineering services
• Drives the strategic development of the organization unit(s) assigned
• Implements defined superior policies and guidelines, and defines and ensures implementation of function specific processes, procedures, methods and/or tools
• Ensures adherence at any time to relevant internal and local EHS-standards
• Plans and proposes unit's budget and decides and allocates financial and personnel resources, within given limits
• Manages and develops all the respective work flow process to ensure all production targets (Quality, Quantity, Delivery in time) are achieved
• Designs and proposes short- and midterm development of his production unit (continuous improvement), and sets up and monitors completion of agreed investment projects
• Ensures optimum machine utilization and product scheduling
• Ensures availability of working instructions, rules and guidelines for all productions sections, shifts or production lines assigned
• Contributes to and implements productions plans
• Evaluates and contributes to implementation of maintenance programs
• Contributes to planning and supervision of contractor work orders
• Cooperates with concerned Sales, Project Management and other technical and support functions to execute the manufacturing program
• Manages organization unit(s) assigned, and leads and/or coordinates dedicated Management, Professionals and staff