Manufacturing Supervisor

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

We are looking for a Manufacturing supervisor to join our manufacturing site in Medtronic Yokneam.
In this role, you will lead and support production teams on the shop floor, ensuring daily manufacturing operations run smoothly and meet safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory targets.
You will work closely with operators and cross-functional teams, drive problem-solving and continuous improvement, and help create a strong culture of accountability, ownership, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Supervise manufacturing operations to deliver results across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory objectives, by leveraging the disciplined use of Medtronic Performance System.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional support teams to drive resolution of abnormalities (5S, EHS risk, quality), including maintenance, quality, engineering, and supply chain, to drive operational excellence and achieve business goals.
• Communicate clearly and consistently regarding the team's current state, expectations, and priorities, ensuring alignment across teams and execution of optimized production schedules.
• Empowering manufacturing operators, reinforcing accountability, and maintaining a strong connection between daily work and outcomes remain essential to sustaining momentum and delivering results.
• Utilize HR processes to address and manage ethical concerns, absenteeism, and employee performance matters, ensuring alignment with organizational values and policies
• Ensure execution of the shopfloor transformation roadmap to drive operational excellence and deliver measurable business results
• Oversee the effective implementation and utilization of Medtronic Performance System (MPS) tools, ensure alignment with established standards to achieve operational consistency and excellence

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering 
• Leadership & team management: Minimum 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, fostering a culture of accountability & performance.
• Problem solving: Critical Thinking, strong analytical skills to identify issues, drive process standardization & optimization (green belt)
• Strategic and data driven decision making: Ability to analyse complex operational data, assess risk, drive quick consensus & make informed decision that balance quality, efficiency & cost.
• Critical Thinking, strong analytical skills to identify issues, drive process standardization & optimization (yellow/green belt), along with ability to analyse complex operational data, assess risk, drive quick consensus & make informed decision that balance quality, efficiency & cost.
• Capability to perform tasks in a strongly autonomous manner with capability to deliver within tight deadlines, according to high-priority requests. KPI-oriented mindset and ability of working in a strongly operational environment will be key to succeed along with a capability of establishing and maintaining positive working relationships within both the team and the support function.
• Proven strong knowledge of lean methodologies, Six Sigma, and operational excellence principles, with experience in proactive approach to identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency gains in manufacturing processes.
• Language: Fluent in both Hebrew and English

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Operations Incentive Plan (OIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here