At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

The Role

At STERIS Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST), We are One Team with One Goal. Through a network of nearly 60 facilities globally, STERIS AST has been committed to patient safety by providing contract sterilization services to the medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer, and industrial communities for over 50 years. Our sterilization services ensure the safety of those who use these products, including our families, our friends, and ourselves.

As a Production Supervisor you will lead a team of 5 material handlers and production operators in various aspects of processing, maintenance, and warehousing functions for the STERIS Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) plant location in El Paso. TX. In this role you will be responsible for the selection, training, and work direction for your team, and employ key company processes to effectively achieve results. The Production Supervisor will positively influence employee engagement and maintain a positive work culture and employee relations environment.

Day Shift: 9am to 9pm (12- hour shift): Alternate schedules each week and have every other weekend off!

Week I: On Mon & Tues; Off Wed, Thurs & Fri; On Sat & Sun

Week 2: Off Mon & Tues; On Wed, Thurs, & Fri; Off Sat & Sun

What You Will Do:

• Develops a shop floor culture focused on the achievement of the businesses’ objectives in Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC), by continuously focusing on waste elimination and following standard work.
• Leads daily SQDC board meetings, trains and develops employees to meet expectations, ensures the working environment is safe through direct monitoring of behavior and equipment, incident response, mitigation and investigation as issues occur during the shift, and providing individual and group feedback on successes and opportunities to improve performance.
• Identifies opportunities for countermeasures and participates in facility lean committees.
• Supports the company’s Lean business system, through participation in Kaizen events, participation in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), One Team One Goal (OTOG) Customer Service training/ participation.
• Acts as first point of contact for mitigation and investigation of issues related to safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Drives employee engagement by implementing and using Lean processes.
• Creates an environment of positive employee relations by creating a safe and productive work environment, listening to and addressing employee concerns, enforcing company policy and constructively managing employee performance.
• Interviews and selects new employees and assures the team has necessary skill and tools to complete work; ensures that shifts are properly staffed and assigns daily work to achieve objectives and ensure smooth shift transitions.

What You Will Also Do

• Assesses skill level and performance, and addresses gaps ensuring employees are capable of meeting expectations.
• Collaborates across functions with Quality, Human Resources, and Planning, and supports customer quality audits.
• Ensures appropriate performance levels and tracks KPI across a range of activities and standard process metrics. Updates SQDC boards.

What you will need to succeed:

• High School Diploma or GED, required; Associates or bachelor’s degree, preferred.
• 3 years supervisory experience, preferred.
• 5 years industrial or other relevant work experience.
• Qualified Equipment Operator, ability to drive a fork truck, certification preferred.
• Ability to learn science of sterilization modalities.
• Four basic functions of mathematics
• Effective communication skills and ability to conduct team meetings.
• Ability to effectively employ delegation, collaboration, conflict resolution skills in a team environment.
• Knowledge of MS Office 365 including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint

What Steris Will Offer You:

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. Join us and help write our next chapter.

• Competitive pay & Annual merit bonus and incentive plans
• Medical, vision, prescription, dental and life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Paid vacation time and paid holidays
• Onsite parking
• Tuition assistance & Opportunities for advancement

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STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.