Engineering Manager - Sarasota, FL

 

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

 

Bringing out the best in people

 

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

 

Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:

 

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

 

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

 

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

 

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.  

 

 

We are looking for an experienced and talented Engineering Manager to join our team. This individual will have overall responsibility to lead the site Engineering team to ensure achievement of, and continuous improvements to, site metrics of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Cost and People. This is a hands-on working leader role.  

 

For daily plant support, this role will lead their team to resolve plant problems and support the operations teams in order to meet key performance indicators (KPIs) for various safety, quality, delivery, inventory, cost and productivity metrics. This role and team will work closely with operations and maintenance in order to troubleshoot, implement process changes (equipment modifications), complete a plant trial or validation. Active presence on the manufacturing floor is expected as a part of plant support. 

 

For new product development/scale-up, this role will interface with a wide variety of functions in order to meet goals associated with growing the value stream’s brands or commercializing new products. As a technical subject matter expert, this role will be responsible for making immediate contributions and driving key decisions in the development, design, and technical transfer of new products .

 

For continuous improvement, this role is responsible for identifying enhancements to existing products/processes within their value stream that will result in safer operations, business continuity, or cost savings. This may include identifying the opportunity, working with outside vendors to design/build/commission changes, and working with internal leaders to submit capital authorization requests for approval. Basic project management oversight and lean six sigma principles will be required.  

 

As a team leader, the mentorship and development of their technical team is expected. Active leadership responsibilities will include completing annual performance reviews, creating professional development plans, and managing employee assignments within the overall Site Engineering Team’s Hoshin-Kanri planning tool.  This role will coordinate with Global Engineering to share best practices, improve overall engineering team performance, and to leverage various team skills. 

 

Additionally, this role oversees the successful transfer of new and existing products with the required processes in a timely manner and alignment with all regulatory, quality and site requirements.