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Production Team Leader - Fab 1st shift

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Stryker

Stryker

Compensation

$89,300 - $148,800/year

Portage, Michigan
On-site
Posted April 22, 2026

Job Description

Work Flexibility: Onsite

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

  

 

Travel Percentage: 10%

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.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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