Sr Director, Site Operations - Philadelphia

Description

Position Summary & Responsibilities :

The primary purpose of this position is to direct departmental functions (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Industrial Engineering) at the Philadelphia site to ensure that the corporate goals and objectives of the worldwide bioMerieux organization are achieved. In general, this requires the ability to direct the activities of multiple teams and provide opportunities to develop teamwork between departments. Must have the ability to identify projects and justify them to receive capital funding and deliver the projects on time and budget. Also requires coordinating and overseeing the implementation of engineering projects related to automation, cost improvements, new product introductions, and scale-ups.

• Manage Manufacturing and Supply Chain - Manufacture and deliver the forecasted product on schedule, with a focus on minimizing nonconformities.
• Manage and Maintain Production Equipment - Ensure that the manufacturing areas are maintained so that production can continuously manufacture product. Manage the maintenance of the production equipment and monitor the performance utilizing the OEE system. Direct modifications of the equipment to improve the performance. End result : Successfully manufacturer product to meet demand and improve efficiency to reduce the COGS.
• Product Transfer - Manage the transfer of new products from Research to Manufacturing in a scalable form. Validate the new processes to meet regulatory requirements and ensure the necessary procedures are in place to order raw materials and to make different batch sizes in order to meet market demand. End result : Successful market introduction of new, high-quality products manufactured with a scalable process that meets all relevant and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Cost Improvement and Risk Management - Manage and provide technical expertise to justify and implement cost improvement projects in Operations. Direct projects that are conducted to qualify secondary vendors in order to reduce production and vendor-related risks. End result : Successful implementation of cost-improvement projects that help achieve the corporate objective of reduction in cost of goods sold.
• Finance - Ensure adherence to departmental budgets. This includes the maintenance of COGS, headcount, controllable, non-controllable expenditures and capital investments. End result : Ensure that the corporate financial objectives are met.
• Supply Chain - The Supply Chain Division includes procurement, master scheduling, manufacturing planning, inventory control, warehouse, international sales administration and distribution. Overall responsibility is to ensure an uninterrupted and high-quality supply of materials to internal and external customers at reasonable costs.
• Perform all work in compliance with company quality procedures and standards.

Education, Skills, & Experience :

Experience leading site operations in a medical device or pharmaceutical environment is highly desired

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