Senior Manager, Operations - Argon Medical Devices Inc

Argon Medical is a global manufacturer of specialty medical products, headquartered in Plano, Texas. Argon offers a broad line of medical devices for Interventional Radiology, Vascular Surgery, Interventional Cardiology and Oncology. Argon’s brand is recognized for best-in-class products that improve patient outcomes via percutaneous, image-guided procedures. Our values describe what we believe in and how we operate. These values are our moral compass which guide our decisions and define the deeply held beliefs and principles of our organizational culture. Argon Medical is a family of individuals united by a mission and culture which continue to grow stronger every day.

Excellent opportunity for a Senior Operations Manager to join our team in Wheeling, IL, a short drive from Chicago!

Overall responsibility for directing and coordinating activities of production department in processing materials or manufacturing products to achieve all production demands. Direct responsibility for improving overall systems used in producing these products to maximize labor, materials, and equipment.

• Plan/direct production activities and establish production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors. Coordinate production activities with purchasing, sales, maintenance, and quality control activities to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources, machines, and equipment.
• Support the development of lean manufacturing processes; continuous improvement, standard work, problem solving, value stream mapping, training, and employee involvement.
• Lead, teach, and coach employees at all levels on lean manufacturing processes.
• Develop a Kaizen facilitator community with appropriate capabilities in each department.
• Assist with the recruitment, assessment, and development of an operations team.
• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, performance evaluation, attendance/payroll, succession planning, and recognition program to attract and retain talent.
• Ability to provide work direction across multiple production areas and shifts.
• Evaluate master production schedule and adjust production capacity to attain service levels.
• Generate cost savings through process improvements and labor reduction activities.
• Maintain cGMP compliant production operation.
• Work closely with quality group to ensure manufactured products are produced in accordance with approved specifications, drawings, and other documents.
• Analyze and plan work force utilization, space requirements and workflow, design of layout of equipment and workspace for maximum efficiency.

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience and training.
• 8+ years of experience in a regulated environment (Medical Device or medical manufacturing a plus) required.
• Proven success in implementation of improvement initiatives such as lean, Kanban, 5S, Visual Management, etc.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and set priorities.  Position requires an ability to function with a sense of urgency while maintaining participative environment and positive attitude.
• Constructively challenge, and actively participate in, management decision-making processes related to strategic and tactical business issues.
• Articulate vision/strategy to company leaders, peers and subordinates and gain commitment as well as influence behaviors to drive results.