Manufacturing Assoc Director

Responsibilities

• Manages several manufacturing departments that may include a staff of production supervisors, production planners, engineers, maintenance personnel, clerks and hourly production employees.
• Develops annual budgets for assigned value streams that balance corporate targets with business needs.
• Executes continuing operations within the budgets.
• Performance manages staff for optimum output and develops top performers for leadership roles.
• Intimately understands the Zimmer Quality System, how departments impact the quality system and ensures compliant execution of all functions within scope of assigned departments.
• Formulates and implements strategies that establish best in class performance for select attributes of assigned value streams.
• Drives manufacturing performance to meet overall site objectives as demonstrated by defined KPIs for operation.
• Drives continuous improvement in the key competencies of Safety, Quality, Customer Service and Productivity.
• Develops and grows organization's capabilities in Lean Manufacturing, Six-Sigma and Business Continuity Planning.

Requirements

• Thoroughly understands factory operations, including cell layout and resource allocations that deliver the required output and optimize cell costs with lead-time.
• Able to apply lean and six sigma tools as appropriate to continually improve operational performance.
• Understands and complies with regulatory requirements (Quality Systems Regulations, ISO, MDD, Quality Manual, EHS, etc.) as they apply to implantable medical devices.
• Demonstrates ability to partner with supporting functions to deliver required results.
• Understands key drives of manufacturing financial variances including, absorption, spend, MUV, and scrap. Also understands basics of standard cost components for individual products within scope of assigned departments.
• Recognizes opportunities for standardization of practices and processes across the manufacturing network and leads efforts to drive corresponding synergies.
• Utilizes leadership and motivational skills to expedite completion of critical projects tasks with other functional groups.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of overall supply chain management including MRP ERP, forecasting, inventory management.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering, Technology, Science or Business
• 7 to 10 years of related work experience in engineering, operations or related field.
• MBA preferred.