Director, Manufacturing

Job Summary

Reporting to Sunrise Site Leader, the Director, Manufacturing is a member of the Operations Leadership Team (OLT) and has the primary responsibility for providing leadership for the organization's Manufacturing department to ensure production output meets on-time-delivery goals, conforms to quality requirements, and is produced at the best cost while achieving a stepped improvement in key manufacturing performance metrics. The role will be responsible for participating in organizational and program budgets in collaboration with TA, and TMC in support of the fiscal year annual operating plan. It will also set the direction and expectation for the coaching, performance management, and development of associates within the departments that reinforces the Terumo culture and way of doing business. In addition, this position will contribute to the development and implementation of Terumo organizational strategies, policies and practices.

Job Details/Responsibilities

1. Champions product quality as a top priority; Ensures compliance to quality systems and partner with Quality function in setting direction for production.
2. Develop and implement tactics in production to constantly improve production capability, capacity, quality, costs and customer service goals for the site.
3. Instill discipline in all level of production organization to run the most compliant and efficient manner
4. Ensures that processes and procedures are in compliance and documented.
5. Drives the organization toward maximum efficiency in production operations through metrics.
6. Brings together functional resources to meet production objectives.
7. Takes a leadership role to ensure R&D projects or special projects receive proper manufacturing support to succeed.
8. Establish key business initiatives and sponsor involvement, direction and accountability. 
9. Initiate cross functional partnerships to identify and resolve production/engineering issues. 
10. Work cross functionally to establish, prioritize and ensure accountability to projects in improving department or plant performance. 
11. Leads the development of the staffing plan to meet on-going and future production demands.
12. Educates, promotes, and models “World Class” Production practices.  Coaches and mentors others in the organization in these tools and techniques.
13. Fosters development of new process technology to ensure that production processes are on the cutting edge
14. Uses tool and resources available to meet customer production needs based upon sales forecast.
15. Coaches and rewards employees for balancing quality and production requirements
16. Participates in project performance team meetings on behalf of the job unit in order to provide ideas, methods, or processes for unit/company performance improvement.
17. Performs other job related duties assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA)

• Strong verbal, written, listening, and presentation skills are required. 
• Must have strong leadership and interpersonal skills. Must demonstrate the ability to coach and develop others, foster teamwork, and influence others and be an agent of change in the organization.
• Capable of inspiring the team to achieve breakthrough results.
• Can handle conflict and pressure situations in a way that gets parties to “yes.”
• High energy level
• Must demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and implement change and be able to work collaboratively to drive improvements and results.
• Demonstrated decision making and problem-solving skills. Familiarity with Six Sigma, and Lean methodologies is highly desirable.
• Takes prudent risks.  Can make optimal decisions rapidly, in many cases with incomplete information.
• Prior experience managing medical device production, creating and managing budgets with a focus on cost effectiveness is required.
• Previous knowledge of OSHA safety requirements, GMP’s and ISO 13485 is preferred.
• Must be a proficient user of Microsoft Office products or equivalent software application.  SAP and MES experience is preferred.

Qualifications/ Background Experiences

• A Bachelor’s Degree and/or combination of education and related experience is required.
• A Master’s Degree in an Engineering, Technical or Business discipline is preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in manufacturing operations in pharmaceutical or medical device facility is required.