Baxter Healthcare is hiring: Production Supervisor, 3rd shift in Batesville

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

Your Role at Baxter

This is where we make life-saving products!

You have deep knowledge of and experience with manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. As a Production Supervisor, you are a leader who is willing to listen and inspire others by your actions. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results as a team.

Your role positions you to be directly involved in the physical production that enables Baxter to fulfill our mission to save & sustain lives. You manage the line between meeting production timelines and making quality products. As a manager, you are the trusted critical connection between the business and the workers on the floor.

Your Team

Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the manufacturing team strives to create quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to create products with the customer's needs top-of-mind.

We build relationships with each other to get work done!

As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds.

A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy—both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

What You'll Be Doing

• Enforce safety and sanitation regulations. Investigate accidents and implement corrective plan to eliminate recurrence. Conduct or assign training for equipment operations or work and safety procedures
• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of fabricated components.
• Address problems with work quality, issues between employees and other concerns in an effective, thorough and timely manner.
• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements. Also, evaluate current production estimates and outputs to ensure that customer delivery requirements are met.
• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals and minimize overtime. Monitor and prioritize workflow of production lines to meet daily schedules.
• Assist in determining standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
• Develop and implement 6S activities and other measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality and efficiency.
• Work requires a high level of judgment, analytic ability, and creativity, such as investigating moderately complex problems or situations, analyzing information, and recommending/implementing solutions.
• Support NPD and TCO activities.
• Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Directly supervises between thirty to sixty full-time.
• Responsibilities include training associates; planning, assigning and directing work; rewarding and disciplining associates; supply and conversion cost adherence; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

What You'll Bring

• Associate degree in Business or Engineering or equivalent experience by combination of education and work experience in a specific discipline. (Bachelor degree preferred)
• Minimum two years of similar job related experience, or equivalent combination of education & experience.
• Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Ability to adapt to changing situations and adjust actions in relation to others' actions.
• Working knowledge of Windows, MS Word, Excel.
• Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt or Bronze Certification. (preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Well trained in 6S principles and the discipline to sustain.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Knowledge of fabrication machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions. (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

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