Operations Team Leader - Lenexa

Microbiology Division Team Lead

The Microbiology Division provides solutions and workflows for food, clinical, and pharmaceutical environments. The markets we serve include food manufacturers and labs, clinical and healthcare, pharma, and biotech. We manufacture culture media and other microbiological diagnostic products serving customers in the pharmaceutical, food, and clinical laboratories.

How will you make an impact?

Lead a Lenexa team, supervise work centers, focus on safety, quality, compliance, and production.

What will you do?

Guarantee precise instruction on safety and ongoing enhancement for both new and current staff members.

Manage employee time records, absences, overtime, and paid time off while ensuring accurate staffing levels.

Build and maintain a safe work environment by engaging associates in reporting potential safety hazards, supporting EH&S guidelines, and continually emphasizing safe work habits and working conditions.

Investigate safety problems, develop corrective actions with EH&S, and implement and communicate changes.

Review and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Device History Records (DHRs) to ensure consistent and reliable processes that align with FDA regulations, ISO requirements, and cGMP.

Manage daily operations, including incident reporting and immediate action steps.

Ensure production schedules, quality initiatives, safety targets, efficiency metrics, and other operational measurements are met.

Implement and maintain work areas within the spirit and guidelines of 5S according to Lean manufacturing principles.

Use the PPI business system tools for continuous process improvement.

How will you get here?

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent experience is necessary.
• Associate Degree or equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

What we offer?

Competitive Salary :

Excellent Benefits!

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