Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At Edwards Lifesciences facilities around the world, our Manufacturing teams create the tools, technologies, and devices that transform patients’ lives. As part of our sewing, assembly, delivery, and distribution teams, your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality. Your purpose-driven work will help leave lasting and positive impacts on patient lives.

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.

Lead and support a high‑performing production team, ensuring workflows run smoothly and operations stay on track to deliver exceptional results.

How you'll make an impact:
• Supervising employees and manufacturing activities pertaining to the production of products and/or manufacturing processes in - and with manufacturing/technical knowledge of - multiple production areas, depending on the complexity of the areas, , in addition to conducting performance reviews, including resolving performance issues.
• Leading complex improvement projects, partnering with engineering on investigations and/or corrective actions, performing non-conformance investigations for review with engineering, assuring documentation content is valid.
• Accountable for productivity and quality metrics of staff, and providing regular progress reports and manufacturing metrics to management and cross-functional stakeholders, including developing resolutions as needed to improve metrics achievement.
• Establishing the scheduling of work orders and team performance metrics, including monitoring output and adjusting schedules to ensure production targets are achieved.
• Ensuring appropriate staffing for all positions.
• Accountable to ensure staff is appropriately trained to perform assigned work.
• Documenting owner for assigned product line assembly procedures.
• Monitoring raw material usage and availability required in daily production, including proposing resolutions to mediate shortages.
• Managing material and labor variances to meet established standards, including proposing resolutions to mediate shortfalls.
• Responsible for all project outcomes of assigned unit/group of employees.
• May guide and mentor entry level supervisors.
• On time arrival to work, regular attendance without excessive absenteeism, and working a full 8 hour or longer work period.
• Other incidental duties (e.g. occasional photo copying or deliveries).

What you'll need (Required):
• Bachelor's Degree in-depth technical knowledge and experience in assigned work area, and substantial experience in related manufacturing, quality and/or product development engineering, with skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Supervisor II or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria required.
• 4 years previous related experience with full responsibility for all personnel including hire/fire authority and handling all aspects of employee relations in manufacturing, quality and/or product development engineering or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria required.

What else we look for (Preferred):
• Experience leading and fostering multi-cultural teams with cultural sensitivity.
• Proven project management expertise.
• Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, preferably JDE.
• Experience working in a medical device industry, preferred.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship skills; possessing strong collaboration skills in partnering with cross functional stakeholders in order to achieve objectives, as well as mediating and negotiating the needs of other areas to achieve consensus.
• Full understanding of manufacturing procedures while applying acquired expertise to analyze and solve problems without clear precedent.
• Ability to supervise, lead, and/or mentor employees in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to analyze and adjust line/operation layouts to improve efficiency.
• Full understanding of all aspects of processes and equipment used across areas of responsibility.
• Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee of employee.
• Knowledge of and adherence to Edwards Environmental Health and Safety and Quality guidelines as they relate to department clean room medical device manufacturing.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts and Six Sigma.
• Provide immediate supervision to a unit or group of employees, assigning tasks, checking work at frequent intervals, and maintaining schedules.
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control.

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $108,000 to $153,000(highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).  Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.