Job Description

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.

As a Manufacturing Assembly Supervisor, you'll provide first-level people leadership in a frontline setting. You'll coordinate and supervise the daily activities of a team. You'll ensure tasks are completed efficiently and effectively within established guidelines. You will be accountable for achieving high quality standards and efficient production processes. Guiding, coordinating, and evaluating the team’s work to achieve manufacturing assembly goals.
Communicating expectations and ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and effectively within established guidelines and procedures.
Identifying areas of improvement and implementing effective solutions.
Maintaining a positive and productive work environment that encourages innovation and growth.
Ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures and regulations. Production Throughput Rate
Production Quality
Production Cycle Time
Employee Satisfaction Knowledge - Be knowledgeable about production processes and equipment
Skill - Be able to effectively support, engage, and motivate team members.
Competency - Able to effectively coordinate and evaluate capabilities.
Skill - Be able to communicate effectively with team members and customers
Other - Have the ability to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends if necessary Builds Inclusive Winning Teams - Eye for Talent: Consistently hires, promotes and exports talented individuals. Mentors & Develops People: Builds organizational capability by investing in the development of people.
Manages Performance: Sets clear expectations and holds people accountable for performance.
Embraces Diversity: Builds inclusive teams of diverse individuals that find the best solutions together.
Collaborative Team Player - Collaborative: Is intentional about seeking input and including others when making decisions. Humility: self aware, vulnerable, willing to reflect critically on opportunities for self improvement. Interpersonal Influence: listens, masters productive conflict, works across functions and BU boundaries.Trustworthy: Builds trusting relationships by being transparent and acting with integrity.
Drives and Delivers Impact - Delivers Results: Does what it takes in order to consistently meet expectations. Action-Oriented: Approaches work with a sense of urgency and drive. Prioritize: Identifies the vital few and focuses resources and energy on the most impactful tasks. Executional Rigor: Uses metrics to measure progress and inform decision-making.
Approachability - Is easy to approach and talk to; spends the extra effort to put others at ease; can be warm, pleasant, and gracious; is sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others; builds rapport well; is a good listener; is an early knower, getting informal and incomplete information in time to do something about it.
Demonstrates Grit & Determination - Initiative: Demonstrates a high level of ownership, leads and mobilizes change. Persistence: Has the tenacity to persist in the face of roadblocks. Resilience: Can tolerate pressure and quickly recover from high-stress situations. Courage: Communicates directly and is real with others, even when it is difficult.

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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