Birth Tissue Supervisor - 2nd Shift

Solvita comes from "sol" meaning sun and "vita" meaning life. As sunlight nurtures new life, we take the donor gift and transform it into new hope, bringing the light of healing to patients in our local hospitals through blood donations and to patients around the globe in need of tissue transplants.

Because we believe that everyone deserves more time to live life to its fullest.

The Birth Tissue Supervisor:

• Lead, promote and drive the safety culture and preventative activities.
• Accountable for the quality of the product, paperwork, and procedures followed in all processing activities.
• Promote leadership, mentoring, coaching and inclusion to all employees.
• Ensure all activities honor The Gift by maximizing opportunities to make grafts transplantable.
• Assist the Manager and Director in selection, training, orientation, supervision, evaluation, development, counseling, and accountability of employees.
• Develop, implement and manage all relevant standard operation procedures, work instructions, job aids, and other procedures as needed for the uniformity and quality of operations.
• Maintain regulated operations in keeping with all applicable standards of accreditation and all regulatory requirements.
• Assist in budget development and ongoing monitoring of expenses.
• Resolve, complete, and ensure corrective actions on all CARs and NCRs are complete and timely to prevent recurrence.
• Approve employee paid time off, manage employee schedules.
• Manage schedules of process suites and teams to meet the weekly and monthly processing requirements.
• Lead team and mentors new Solvita employees through documented training.
• Responsible for ensuring employees are following all applicable procedures, safety guidelines, training, policies and standards.
• Ensure all allografts tissue are accurately processed, measured, labeled, packaged, and documented in a timely manner.
• Inspect grafts for quality, packaging integrity, and accuracy of documentation.
• In conjunction with Quality Control, responsible for operating and ensuring processing equipment is in good working order. Equipment includes, but is not limited to, band saws, drills, scissors, scalpels.
• Participate on project, process improvement and product development teams.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Environment/Physical Activities

• Requires heavy lifting, continuous levels of standing and is physically demanding.
• Some areas of Manufacturing may require the ability to work around high magnetic circuits or magnetic fields.
• Requires good eye-hand coordination skills.
• Must be able to meet the required physical demands with or without reasonable accommodation.

• We began in Dayton in 1964 as the region's first centralized blood bank. Solvita collects and provides all blood products for hospitals in our 15-county region and beyond.

• The tissue bank was born in 1986 and is now one of the nation's largest tissue banks. Solvita recovers, processes, and distributes human tissue grafts and is the nation's largest non-profit provider of skin grafts for burn patients.