Job Description

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Value Stream Manager at the STERIS St. Louis, Missouri facility manages and directs a lean Value Stream in an ISO 13485 certified manufacturing facility that supplies specialty cleaning chemicals to Healthcare and Life Science customers throughout the world. The Value Stream Manager is responsible for the planning, organizing, and production of the highest quality products, and ensuring they meet the delivery requirements of our customers.

This is a first shift position 7:00am to 3:30pm Monday– Friday.

What You'll do as a Value Stream Manager

• Ensure safety for employees and customers.  Initiate and participate in efforts to improve safety, ergonomics, and the environment. 
• Ensure quality to meet Customer’s requirements.
• Implement lean activities to meet product cost goals.
• Prepare and submit budget for value stream. Identify and implement capital expenditures. 
• Strategically align operational and capital budget to improve St Louis manufacturing facility.
• Manage value stream needs to operate within budget.  Identify, implement, and track cost saving initiatives. 
• Select, schedule, lead, train, discipline, and evaluate the value stream team. Coach, develop, motivate employees and remove barriers to their success.
• Maintain/Improve labor cross-training and flexibility.
• Ensure support of Corporate and facility missions, goals, philosophies, and directives. 
• Prepare periodic value stream performance reports.  Meet all administrative deadlines as specified by Director of Operations.
• Ensure communications within value stream.  Keep value stream team informed as to company/facility plans and progress. 
• Develop, plan and facilitate a value stream quarterly communication meeting.
• Research, analyze, and arrive at sound business decisions for the value stream.  Be comprehensive, creative, and innovative in defining alternatives and options. 
• Plan, coordinate, supervise and control the manufacturing operations, ensuring cost effectiveness and adherence to production output plans as well as Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Prepare submissions to PIPC (Product Prioritization Improvement Committee) for product improvement needs in the assigned value stream.

The Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree, required.  
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
• Minimum of 10 years of manufacturing leadership experience in a regulated medical device or pharmaceutical environment.
• Strong management, communication, and organizational skills.
• Possess a continuous process improvement mindset with the ability to effectively lead and manage change.
• Strong verbal, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Experience with MRP/Kanban environment
• Microsoft Office Skills required.
• Proven ability to recruit, train, and develop talent. A track record of proven success.

Preferred: 

• A four-year degree in business management or engineering, preferred.
• An advanced degree such as an MBA is a plus.
• Minimum of 3 years of lean experience preferred.
• Oracle experience preferred.

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, wellbeing, and financial future.

Here is just a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision benefits
• Long- and Short-Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add-on benefits / discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention.  WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047 . This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.  We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.

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