Director, Global Manufacturing

 

At West, we’re a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life-saving and life-enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West’s indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun. A name started our story. How will yours help write our future?  

 

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JOB SUMMARY

Accountable to lead and direct Engineering programs and/or applications. This role will guide the strategic planning and execution of manufacturing technology initiatives aimed at enhancing competitiveness, productivity, and operational efficiency within West Pharmaceutical’s Contract Manufacturing Operating Unit (CM OU). Responsibilities include developing, implementing, and sustaining a global, integrated approach for Engineering workstreams. Drive global strategies and initiatives to successful end to end execution linking systems and processes across all areas of West.  Drive value in global manufacturing operations. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to drive best practices and optimize facilities, systems, processes and/or equipment in global manufacturing operations.

More specifically, this role will be developing and implementing technology roadmaps, investments management, promoting new technology and equipment introduction to support new product and process introductions, and manufacturing excellence. You will integrate Industry 4.0 principles, promoting global collaboration and knowledge sharing, and monitoring performance metrics to ensure continuous improvement. Beyond technical proficiency, this role collaborates with various stakeholders, offering insights and recommendations to enhance processes, troubleshoot manufacturing challenges, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our CM OU.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining the strategic roadmap and driving priorities and alignment through strategy deployment
• Serving as a nexus; developing, naturing and acting as partner between the needs of our manufacturing locations, across our manufacturing enterprise to provide the most appropriate digital technology solutions, and resource allocations delivering optimum End to End business
• Responsible for driving Engineering strategies and initiatives
• Responsible for optimizing West Engineering
• Develop and implement and lead a governance model Organization that engages all key stakeholders, makes best use of our internal capability, drives accountability and ensures optimum program prioritization
• Direct, maintain & sustain value of Engineering programs and applications.
• Apply reliability engineering principles to achieve increase uptime and process capability across the network as well as drive creation and implementation of programs
• Optimize plant shutdown initiatives throughout the network and ensure consistency across the sites
• Responsible for Global Maintenance Documentation (Standards, SOPs, Guidelines, best practices) in driving best practices following Good Engineering and Good Manufacturing Practices
• Accountable for monitoring and measuring success and communicating to key stakeholders including site and value stream leadership

 

• Drive the annual Maintenance Capex budget process along with periodic reviews and measures
• Prepare reports as may be required by ensuring reporting data is accurate and complete
• Manage a team of committed employees and ensure th