Production Lead

Expected Travel
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None

Requisition : 7569

Teleflex is a global provider of clinically effective medical technologies designed to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. We apply purpose driven innovation — a relentless pursuit of identifying unmet clinical needs — to benefit patients and healthcare providers. Our portfolio is diverse, with solutions in the fields of vascular and interventional access, interventional cardiology, surgical, anesthesia, cardiac care, interventional urology, urology, emergency medicine and respiratory care.

Teleflex employees worldwide are united in the understanding that what we do every day makes a difference. For more information, please visit

Global Operations is a complex and diverse organization within the company which is responsible for product fulfilment to all our customers from end to end. We pride ourselves on being totally Customer Centric in our unrelenting focus on Improving Quality, Service and Value as perceived by our customers. Our employees are dedicated to the Global Operations Enterprise Excellence journey. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Production Lead is responsible for assembly, training, monitoring, and assigning work tasks in a medical device production environment. The Production Lead will utilize established documentation, tools, quality and production concepts in accordance with established safety procedures and in conjunction with limited supervision and guidance.

With limited supervision and guidance:

• Champion a safety-driven culture. Ensure compliance with all safety and environmental regulations.
• Manufacture, inspect and package products following written procedures and using applicable equipment to perform basic visual and dimensional checks, while meeting established timed standards and production goals.
• Provide work direction and oversee adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Cross-train across multiple operations and, as needed, across multiple product lines.
• Ability to train Operators to applicable manufacturing procedures and train on use of production equipment/tooling.
• Proactively plan and execute cross-training to develop talent within the organization.
• Utilize 5S and lean methodologies to maintain a safe, clean and organized workplace.
• Ensure proper tools and materials are available as needed to meet production requirements.
• Identify and support continuous improvement efforts with the production support team.
• Identify quality issues or workmanship deficiencies related to equipment, assembly and inspection processes, materials, sub-assemblies, and the manufacturing environment.
• Comply with GMP requirements by maintaining individual training records, completing data entry in production records in a timely and accurate manner, and adhering to documented manufacturing practices and procedures as defined in Teleflex Quality Systems Procedures.
• Maintain and review production records to verify they are complete and accurate.
• Assist in providing work direction and maintaining workflow in the absence of the Production Supervisor.
• Assist the Production Supervisor to meet production goals, maintain production metrics, and communicate production issues.
• Provide input to Production Supervisor and Operations Manager regarding equipment, processes, manufacturing environment and other related information for capacity planning and production scheduling.
• Maintain and reorder established quantities for Kanban items to control inventories. Accurately execute transactions in Eagle, QAD, Cyber Query, and SAP to ensure proper issuing, closing and labor reporting on all work orders.
• Ensure effective transfer of information between shifts.
• Ensure equipment is maintained and calibrated within defined timelines. Coordinate with technicians and metrology to minimize interruption to production lines.
• Work with Operators and engineering staff to identify and implement improvements to reduce scrap, improve quality, capacity and product flow for assigned…