Production Team Leader - Fab 1st shift

Stryker
Portage, MI

What you will do

Join Our Team as a Production Team Leader -First Shift (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.

  • 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

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or 6 years of equivalent experience
  • 4 years of proven leadership experience in manufacturing or operations

Preferred Qualifications

  • Excellent organization, planning, communication, project management and performance attainment in a manufacturing or logistics environment
  • Own and execute LSW (Leader Standard Work) and audit requirements including, but not limited to, Quality and 6S
  • 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
  • Accountable for team training compliance and guidance to team members, while ensuring a proper tracking of competencies
  • Ensures compliance with established regulatory, quality, legal, corporate, and human resources policies and procedures
  • Machining experience such as familiarity with CNC processes, tooling, or production workflows
  • Program management experience such as managing cross‑functional timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder

United States of America Pay Ranges:

USN : $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual

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.
Posted 2026-04-24

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