Associate Process Engineering Director

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

About the role:
As part of the OnePD leadership team overseeing the Shafts Value Stream organization (assembly and continuous processing technologies for composite shafts), you will lead a team of technical and people leaders to advance technologies across Boston Scientific to serve our divisional and plant customers. You will be responsible for ensuring the planning and completion of development projects are successful including correct resources allocation, project budget planning and adherence.  You will establish and maintain strategies and organizational structure that enable efficient execution and world class innovation for our projects and technology roadmaps.  You will lead inclusively and develop a team that collaborates effectively across all sites and divisions.
 
 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build strategic partnerships and effectively collaborate cross-functionally to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Identifies and communicates the group's vision, new strategies, and projects aimed at enhancing key business metrics.
• Nurtures and advances an inclusive workplace environment where all individuals can fully contribute to their potential while pursuing organizational goals.
• Exercises leadership and guidance, employing coaching and mentoring to foster a results-driven environment, and attracting and retaining top-tier talent. Assumes responsibility for succession planning within their team and devises and executes proactive retention strategies.
• Identifies and champions product development and functional excellence initiatives within their group.
• Identifies future technology and intellectual property critical to future business growth and drives implementation.
• Cultivates a wide network of internal, external, and industry-specialist contacts.
• Partners with and influences other functions to ensure common short and long-term business goals and strategies are met.
• Champions the sharing and leveraging of initiatives, processes, and accomplishments across the divisions/plants.
• Prepares for the launch of new products as they are handed over from R&D through to the successful launch into a production scale operation.
• Development of necessary Manufacturing Process’s on-site ensuring optimization of layout and process flow.
• Development of processes which fully meet our Regulatory and Quality requirements working in close relationship with QA and Manufacturing/Business counterparts.
• Oversees the specification and purchase of capital equipment ensuring balance between optimizing our technological capabilities and return on investment.
• Works closely with R&D to ensure that design for manufacturability is a key consideration in initial product design.
• Understands and complies with all the regulations governing the quality systems.
• Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to patient safety and product quality. Ensures all direct reports are well-versed in their commitment to patient safety and product quality, up to date with their training requisites, and fully compliant with all pertinent regulations governing their functions.
• Develops and manages budgets and schedules, ensuring alignment with corporate requirements.

 

 
Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline
• 10+ years of related work experience
• 5+ years’ experience in leading & developing an engineering group or other engineering leaders
• Experience working in the medical device industry, or other highly regulated industry 

 

Preferred qualifications:

• Track record of developing strong partnerships with multiple customers simultaneously.
• Inclusive approach to projects that drives collaboration & execution in technology areas.
• Proficient in financial management, with demonstrated experience in effectively managing budgets.
• Experience establishing organizational designs that improve communication, efficiency and collaboration.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with divisional / franchise and operations partners achieving project contracts.
• Experience owning technology roadmaps, delivering innovative solutions within the product