Production Team Leader (3rd Shift) - Portage, Michigan

**What you will do-** Join our team as a Production Team Leader (Onsite). We're looking for a hands-on people leader to lead a team of 40+ associates, drive performance and foster a culture of excellence on our production floor. As the Production Team Leader, you'll play a key role in ensuring quality, on-time delivery, and budget adherence-while also supporting team building, employee engagement, new product launches, and effective capacity and production planning. **Schedule:** Mon-Friday 8:45pm to 5:15am with flexibility + Accountable to meeting and/or exceeding business objectives including but not limited to safety, quality, delivery, customer experience, people development and cost + Allocate and lead resources in area based on production schedule and standards + Identify and may lead cost reduction initiatives to deliver on financial projections + Partner with other business unit leaders on projects or operations initiatives to align when appropriate + Must be able to collect various metrics and compile to forecast business needs + Attend daily management meetings and communicate business results /metrics clearly at all levels of the operations business + Identify and execute continuous improvement projects through teamwork, empowerment, consultative problem solving, and operating with honesty and integrity while providing a highly responsive and unsurpassed level of customer service **What you need-** + Bachelor's degree or 6 years of equivalent experience - required + 4 years of proven leadership experience in manufacturing or operations - required + Experience working with ERP/MRP systems - preferred Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role. Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.