HFN: Vice President, Fabrication Services

Why Us?

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

Could This Be For You?

 The Vice President, Fabrication assumes a key leadership role, spearheading fabrication operations for Hanger. This entails a strategic partnership with business unit leaders to align daily operations with goals and objectives. This role plays a pivotal part in fortifying Hanger's fabrication capabilities, contributing significantly to the company’s growth strategy through the implementation of innovative strategies, quality enhancements, and strategic team development.

 

Collaboration is paramount for success, and the VP of Fabrication will work closely with business unit leaders, collaborating with key stakeholders and other cross-functional teams as needed. Collectively, their efforts will be focused on enhancing efficiency, effectiveness, and the overall quality of fabrication across Hanger Fabrication Network. This leader will be expected to thrive in a fast-paced production environment, showcasing a profound understanding of the complexities involved in fabrication practices, particularly within highly customized product realization processes.

 

The Vice President, Fabrication is a hands-on leader, prepared to actively contribute to shaping Hanger's fabrication strategy. This involves defining strategic approaches, including, process optimization, technology application, make versus buy decisions, strategic partnering, and sourcing. The primary objectives are clear: achieve budgetary goals, ensure unwavering safety and regulatory compliance, and maintain the highest standards of quality. In navigating this strategic journey, we value a leader who balances strategic vision with a practical, action-oriented mindset, while guiding their team to achieve concrete and meaningful outcomes. Throughout the process, the VP of Fabrication will consistently exhibit a keen awareness of the long-term impacts and goals of the organization, embodying the qualities of a leader adept at translating vision into tangible results.

Your Impact

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

 

• Collaborate with clinical teams to integrate manufacturing capabilities, ensuring alignment with patient needs and desired outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with company and government safety and environmental regulations in fabrication.
• Establish strategic goals for fabrication, aligning operational activities with Hanger’s goals and values.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships and engage effectively with business, senior leaders, and stakeholders.
• Drive productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and implementing cutting-edge technologies across Hanger Fabrication Network.
• Proficient in the transition and scaling of new products for seamless incorporation into ongoing fabrication processes.
• Establish a strategy for sites to ensure that delivery of fabricated products meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals in support of associated business objectives.
• Develop metrics to assess the efficiency of business procedures in line with organizational goals, analyzing and interpreting data to drive improvements across various disciplines.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with business units to achieve Hanger’s objectives.
• Lead change management activities within the designated area of responsibility.
• Establish a safety culture to drive world-class occupational and process safety performance.
• Coach, mentor, and develop the team, fostering an environment of continuous learning and encouraging global collaboration in a geographically and culturally dispersed organization.
• Provide subject matter expertise in process technology to the operations team.

 

Knowledge and Skill:

 

• A track record demonstrating strong project management and team building and development skills.
• Expert knowledge of LEAN Six Sigma practic