Production Co-ordinator

Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you passionate about helping our incredible national health service make a difference? Do you care about keeping vulnerable patients safe? If so, then a career with STERIS Instrument Processing could be a great fit for you.

Working Pattern
Full-time, 37.5 hrs per week on Monday-Friday at 14:00-22:00 with occasional weekends if needed.

About the role
As a Production Co-ordinator, you will oversee re-processing production operations, managing all production and logistics staff on a shift basis, while playing a pivotal role in the workflow and team management within a busy Sterile Services Unit. You will lead by example, fostering effective communication and nurturing positive interpersonal relationships, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance departmental performance.

What is involved?
- Maintenance and Repair: Ensure all plant and machinery are maintained and repaired to assist service provision.
- Process Coordination: Efficiently oversee the cleaning, inspection, assembly, packing, sterilisation, and despatch of instruments and equipment within set deadlines.
- Team Participation: Actively contribute to the sterile processing team, suggesting innovations and improvements.
- Machine Operation: Safely operate and monitor machines (driers, washers, sterilisers), recording and reporting any downtime.
- Inventory Management: Oversee the logging and tracking of repairs and missing instruments/equipment, ensuring they are correctly tagged and returned to stock.
- Health and Safety Compliance: Monitor and ensure all operational activities comply with Health and Safety procedures, training staff on these guidelines.
- Quality Control: Ensure all production processes conform to quality guidelines, maintaining contamination control.
- Resource Management: Control the use of materials, equipment, and consumables, reporting faults and requirements to the Production Manager.
- Staff Supervision and Development: Coach and assist team members, manage absence records, and oversee time management and overtime, ensuring effective communication between senior management and production teams.
- Operational Assist: Assist the Production Manager or Operations Manager in planning and operational processes, covering for supervisors when needed, and ensuring 5S monitoring is completed.

Educated to a good general standard with demonstrable verbal and numerical abilities
- Basic end user IT skills to operate track and traceability IT system
- Strong understanding of individual needs
- Approachable and empathetic
- Flexible with working hours
- Performance and productivity management experience
- Enthusiastic and positive attitude

Preferred Experience
- 2 years in a team leader, supervisor or manager role within the sterilisation industry.

Skills
- Attention to detail
- Approachable and understanding
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Technical proficiency to operate and monitor machines and IT systems
- Health and Safety awareness
- Implementing continuous improvement initiatives
- Excellent communication abilities., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

At STERIS Instrument Processing we are the believed experts in surgical instrument sterilisation. We offer on and offsite re-processing, alongside reliable instrument maintenance solutions. Our diverse and talented teams use cutting edge technology to ensure that the highest quality of infection prevention is delivered to our customers., 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.