Production Co-ordinator

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.

**HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE**:
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**About Us**
**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.**
**We are currently recruiting for a Production Co-ordinator vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join the business at the co-ordinator level and oversee the productivity and welfare of the staff on site.**

**About You**
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**:
**37.5 hrs per week on Monday-Friday at 8:00-16:00 (flexible) with requirement to cover evenings or weekends when 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.

**What’s in it for you?**:

- Basic level of training on sterilisation, lean thinking, 5S methodology, staff management among others.
- Defined career path when fully operational
- A diverse and people-centric culture
- Direct impact on patient care
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

**Required Experience**:

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

**Preferred Experience**:

- 2 years in a team leader or supervisory role within the sterilisation industry. 2 years in a team leader or supervisory role within the sterilisation industry.

**Skills**:

- Attention to detail
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Technical proficiency to operate and monitor machines and IT systems
- Health and Safety awareness
- Implementing continuous improvement initiatives

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.

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.