Director, Operational Excellence

August Bioservices is seeking a highly organized, systems-oriented, and execution-focused leader to establish and lead the company’s continuous improvement program. This role will be responsible for identifying opportunities to progress both efficiency and compliance, ensuring cross-functional coordination, operational readiness, schedule adherence, and the execution discipline required to support a rapidly scaling sterile injectable manufacturing organization. 

This leader will serve as the central integrator across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Warehouse, Planning, Training, Technical Operations, and Maintenance to ensure activities required to execute manufacturing operations are proactively coordinated, visible, and completed on time. 

This role will also oversee continuous improvement initiatives, such as 5S, Kaizen, Gemba, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma. 

This role will establish the operational management cadence, readiness governance, escalation processes, and performance visibility necessary to drive reliable execution and scalable operational performance across the organization. 

This role is not responsible for directly managing manufacturing personnel. Instead, the role is accountable for driving continuous improvement, organizational readiness, execution coordination, dependency management, and operational accountability across functions. This position will report directly to the COO and will work closely with executive leadership across the organization. 

Continuous Improvement and Executional Readiness Leadership 

• Establish and lead the company’s continuous improvement program and lead cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives  

• Develop and implement structured readiness reviews to ensure all prerequisites for successful execution are completed prior to the start of planned activity 

• Coordinate cross-functional activities required to support execution, including staffing, training, materials, documentation, equipment readiness, and quality support 

• Drive alignment between scheduling, staffing, material availability, and operational capabilities 

• Identify execution risks proactively and drive mitigation planning before operational impact occurs 

• Establish escalation mechanisms for readiness gaps, schedule risks, and execution barriers 

Schedule Adherence & Dependency Management 

• Partner closely with Planning and Manufacturing leadership to improve schedule attainment and execution reliability 

• Ensure critical dependencies are identified, tracked, and completed on time 

• Implement structured tracking of execution delays, schedule misses, and recurring operational constraints 

• Lead recovery planning efforts when schedule disruptions occur 

• Drive accountability for execution commitments across functions 

• Design and implement standardized operational management cadences including but not limited to: daily execution review meetings, readiness review meetings, deliverable reconciliation processes, escalation reviews, recovery planning sessions. 

• Implement mechanisms for visibility into incomple