Director of Manufacturing

Job title – Director of Manufacturing  
Location – Norcross 
 
Malvern Panalytical, SciAps and Micromeritics. A powerful combination. Join us.   

About the role 

This role is pivotal to the success of the facility in Norcross. As the Director of Manufacturing, you will have overall responsibility for the people and processes that run at Malvern, with direct accountability for Manufacturing and manufacturing Engineering. With this overall responsibility of course comes all the normal requirements for Safety, Quality, Continuous Improvement and plan adherence, reporting into the Global Director Manufacturing and manufacturing Engineering. A degree of travel may be required but the key focus of this role will be the facility and effective management, coaching and leadership of the people there. 

What you will bring to the role:  

• You will bring strong manufacturing skills and experience 

• Clear and demonstrable lean experience 

• Strategic thinking  

• Business acumen 

• Strong coaching skills and experience 

• You will have a background in manufacturing roles and a strong lean bias 

• You will also have a clear understanding of assembly work and ideally machine shop experience 

Why you should join Malvern Panalytical: 

• The successful candidate will be joining a highly driven and aspirational industry leading business spanning the globe. Our instruments touch everything the world values by measuring, light, X-ray, temperature, pressure and flow, looking at particle size, shape, concentration. We also lead on measuring particle porosity, surface area, structure, elemental composition, particle activity, stability and solid density.  

• Our instruments are cited in a scientific paper every 20 minutes of every day and we have over 92,000 instruments installed worldwide. 

• As a key leader in the manufacturing team, your development opportunities are wide ranging, as you will be interacting across the spectrum of the business. 

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About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps. 
Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies. 

We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.

Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.

Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery.  Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.

SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.
We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia. We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all comm