Director, Sustaining and Operations Engineering

 

Overview

 

Leads teams in Sustaining Engineering, New Process Introduction (NPI), Advanced Testing Development, Automation, Material Science, and Machine Shop to ensure that the company’s goals are met with respect to continuity of supply, reduction in cost, and overall improvement process robustness. 

 

What you’ll do:

 

• Lead, coach, and develop a large team of technical and managerial staff to ensure that we retain and develop the best talent. 
• Develop and achieve budget for cost centers that relate to areas of responsibility.  This includes cost center expenses as well as the majority of capital investments for operations. 
• Develop and execute strategic plans that will drive continuous operational efficiency, improved process effectiveness, decreased costs, improved yields, and sustained business continuity.
• Participate in Reliability, CAPA, Product and Project strategy steering committees to ensure that the business is properly prioritizing and executing projects that are strategically critical in nature.
• In leading the NPI function, partner closely with R&D and Manufacturing to transfer new product from R&D with world class manufacturability and built-in quality.  This responsibility involves development of manufacturing lines, equipment selection and qualification, developing assembly and test procedures.
• Drive cost reduction projects that may include insourcing, outsourcing, changing vendors/materials/equipment, modifying internal or external processes, etc.
• Ensuring equipment uptime requirements are met, preventative maintenance is completed, and plans are in place to prevent and recover from unexpected downtime of equipment.
• Lead Sustainment Engineering projects which drive improved product reliability, reduced costs, and supply continuity.
• Manages a team of project managers that deliver transformative solutions to business needs including greenfield projects, SAP/MES implementation, regulatory compliance (EUMDR), business continuity, as well as global product launch.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

 

Travelling Requirement: approximately 10%

 

 

 

What you bring to the team:

 

 

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Nice to Have

• Master’s Degree in Engineering and/or MBA

 

 

Further Education

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

 

 

Work Experience

• Experience leading technical teams in a regulated manufacturing environment. 
• Med Device strongly preferred.  10+ years of experience in engineering and manufacturing with strong leadership track record

Nice to Have

• Class 3 medical device engineering leadership experience.

 

 

Personal Competencies

• Strategic thinker, collaborator, accountability, and strong leadership traits. 

 

 

Leadership Competencies

• Building organizational capabilities.
• Developing talent
• Delivers results
•  Inspires others

 

 

Social Competencies

• Concise and efficient communicator, strong presentation skills, engages and inspires teams

 

 

Professional Competencies

• Engineering and Lean/Continuous Improvement principles, proven record of developing strong teams, understands statistical techniques, A3 problem solving.  ISO13485 and ISO14971 knowledge.

 

 

Language(s)/ Level

• English/ Fluent

Nice to Have

• Spanish/ German

 

 

IT Skills

• Basic operating system, ERP, MES, and PLM system skills

Nice to Have

• MS Office, SAP, Camstar, Agile

 

 

Further Requirements : Based in LA area and ability to work on site

 

 

 

 

 

Our offer:

 

• Exciting and challenging work environment
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Training and development opportunities – we believe every employee deserves a development plan. Come, learn, and grow with us!

Don't meet all the criteria?  If you’re willing to go all in and learn we'd love to hear from you! 

We love to work with great people and strongly believe that a diverse team makes us better.  We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of race, color, creed/religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, mental or physical disability.

We thank all applicants in advance; however only individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.  All applications wil