Lead Hand - Alliston, Canada - BAXTER

BAXTER

Verified Company

Alliston, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

This is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world.

You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role at Baxter
This is where my hands make life-sustaining products

You are driven by the knowledge that the products you help make saves and sustain lives. You can move quickly, address questions, and encourage teammates, all while getting quality products out on time. You are calm, positive, and a key part of a fast-paced environment that emphasizes camaraderie and teamwork. As a
Continuous Improvement Specialist you are happiest when you are moving, and we will not disappoint

Baxter is known for its speed and high-quality product. Our manufacturing operations are around-the-clock to meet the needs of our customers. Our high-caliber talent works through the challenges at hand while pushing toward meeting client order needs.

We are currently looking for an energetic, hard-working
Continous Improvement Specilaist to work full-time on our Day shift (Monday to Friday 7:00-15:00) at our Alliston facility.

We offer an Employee Stock Purchasing Plan, Defined contribution pension plan and medical/dental benefits on your first day

Your team
Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by manufacturing high-quality products. We strive to create quality products for our customers each day.

Delivering life-saving products is about getting them right, and attention to detail is how we make sure we meet that challenge.

We are a team that supports each other throughout each shift. Working together in a supportive and open culture makes our processes evolve for the better and engages our workforce.

The following are dress/gowning requirements:
safety glasses, safety shoes, ear plugs, jumpsuit, hood, hairnet, beard cover, gloves, isolation mask and boots (additional PPE required when cleaning)

Constant or intermittent exposure to elevated levels of noise
Involves working around equipment, machinery, and belts

What you will do

Identifies, designs, and implements improvements that provide fast, sustainable, and lowrisk/highreward benefits for the assigned areas.
Identifies improvements to cycle times, production sequences, material flow, etc. to ensure that the assigned area has the capacity to maintain the supply chain and/or introduce new products.
Coaches' area members on process ownership, standard ways of working and to have a sustainable process for improvement.
Evaluates, recommends, and provides technical support in the selection, installation and qualification of processing equipment. Supports areas initiatives to ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements (GMP, OSHA, EPA, SHE, etc.).
Promotes a continuous improvement mentality.

What You'll Bring

Successful completion of High school Diploma or GED
Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Chemical, Electronics
Manufacturing/Quality/Continuous Improvement experience in a GMP environment
Communicates well, mínimally comfortable at the interpersonal and small group levels.
Strong ability to balance multiple priorities with excellent time management skills.
Able to organize own work and prioritize work for others.
Strong problemsolving skills and ability to identify root cause
Optimally leads and develops staff.
Able to make decisions given sufficient input and support.
Able to explain technical issues using verbal or written form clearly and logically.

Prioritizing projects that directly impact Production Efficiency

Understanding the resources required to accomplish a project
Dealing with changes to projects
Devising contingency plans
Accurately assessing the importance of each project and managing timelines

Preferred:

Strong communication skills, above average interpersonal, small group and large audience skills.
Able to bring structure to a team/process so that efforts are concerted and organized.
Able to make key decisions in the face of ambiguity, balances accuracy and timeliness.
Excels at simplification allowing nontechnical team members to understand the issues. Produces correct, concise documents detailing technical content.

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Reasonable Accommodations

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