Job Description

About Us:

Dutch Ophthalmic USA and is part of DORC, short for Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center, manufactures equipment, instruments and liquids used in eye surgery.

Every single day our employees ensure that eye surgeons all over the world enjoy the use of innovative ophthalmic devices, instruments, and liquids. DORC uses cutting-edge technology, works closely with innovative surgeons, and thrives to make a difference. Ophthalmologists worldwide use our advanced Ophthalmic surgery unit EVA to take care of their patients to help them see again.

DORC is a ZEISS company, an internationally leading technology enterprise that develops, manufactures and sells highly innovative products and solutions in a variety of business fields, such as medical technology. As a company wholly owned by a foundation, ZEISS is rooted in and committed to responsibility in all its activities.

Location/Region: This position will be located in New Britain, PA.

What’s the role?

Responsible for building and maintaining a strong team of well-trained, healthy, and committed employees and then working together to produce products according to regulations, planning and standards, within the set safety, quality and quantity requirements.

Sound Interesting?

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Leads, coaches employees and ensures optimal staffing in a qualitative and quantitative sense.
• Ensures a well-functioning team, conducts individual (assessment) interviews, (preventive) absenteeism counselling and ensures a pleasant working environment where the core values of DORC are observed.
• Together with the department, realizes the planned production according to the required qualitative and quantitative standards, within the budget and (annual) plan for the department and makes proposals for this.
• Ensures a culture of continuous improvement, makes proposals from the department, takes care of implementation.
• Registering deviations in products, processes and systems and taking measures to prevent recurrence.
• Ensures the correct use and maintenance of tools, measuring instruments and equipment and gives advice for improvement.
• Reporting, analyzing various production KPIs and adjusting the process where necessary.
• Takes care of the final inspection of finished products and sub-assemblies and is authorized to approve production orders.
• Responsible for Compliancy within the department by implementing company and work regulations for safety, quality, training (up-to-date training files) and environment.

Do you qualify?

• GED or High School Diploma
• 3-5 years of work experience in a related field
• Kennis/Lean Manufacturing Principles
• IT skills: mastery of MS Office and ERP system
• English language
• Kennis/Good manufacturing Practices
• Shows interest in people, builds team spirit, listens and helps employees get the best out of themselves and is able to show situational leadership
• Result-oriented and gives others a clear direction
• Ethical, supports ethics and values; Demonstrate Integrity
• Speaks with skill and confidence in front of a group of people
• Plan and Organize: Identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish a task; organizes time effectively; Keep an eye on deadlines
• Adapts to changing circumstances; can deal with ambiguity; accepts new ideas and initiatives for change;
• Keeps a positive outlook on the job; Operates productively in a stressful environment

Peregrine Surgical, LLC is part of the Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center - a Zeiss Company; we value our employees and provide top tier benefits. You can expect the following:
• 3 weeks of vacation (accrued)
• 10 sick days annually (prorated for new hires)
• 10 US holidays
• up to 90% of Health Insurance premiums paid by the company.
• Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k plan with company match
• Paid short term, long term & basic life insurance paid by the company.
• Variable Compensation program

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Debra Ann Rybolt, Jo Anne Mittelman

Zeiss provides Equal Employment Opportunity without unlawful regard to an Applicants race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizen status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (includes childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic predisposition, carrier status, gender expression or identity, including transgender identity, or any other class or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law of the employee (or the people with whom the employee associates, including relatives and friends).