Operations Director

About the role

The Operations Director oversees activities in production and manufacturing at Pall Corporation's Cortland, NY plant. Reporting to the VP Operations North America and Energy+, this role requires leadership in developing processes to maximize safety, quality, productivity, and followership across various departments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute processes to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and followership in Manufacturing Operations, Facilities, Manufacturing Engineering, and Materials.
• Build a winning team by performing supervisory activities, including recruitment, selection, training, development, coaching, and administering performance and salary review processes for direct reports.
• Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and key goals are met, manufacturing capacity aligns with sales plans, and sustainable processes and capabilities are built.
• Promote, lead, and coach others in the use of Danaher Business System (DBS) tools and lean concepts to improve manufacturability, productivity, yields, cost, process variation, and customer quality.
• Partner with HR and leadership teams to maintain headcount, overtime, factory expenses, and fiscal budgets aligned with annual budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or Masters’ degree with 6+ years of experience - including 5+ years managing people in a manufacturing setting.
• Experience with successful implementation of Continuous Improvements, Lean Manufacturing programs, principles, and practices, and strong understanding of CI tools and techniques.
• Athorough understanding of the inter-relationship between manufacturing, S & OP, engineering, inventory/materials management, quality, and regulatory affairs programs and purchasing.
• Exceptional leadership, team building skills, and the ability to develop and sustain a safety culture that achieves outstanding outcomes.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and people skills, sensitivity to cultural differences, results-oriented, creative, and self-motivated.
• A strong financial background with the ability to articulate how operational decisions impact financial outcomes.
• Demonstrated safety leadership knowledge and prior experience driving safety programs that yielded measurable safety performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Skills

• Strong financial background.
• Leadership and team-building skills.
• Safety leadership knowledge.
• Communication and people skills.

Benefits

Pall, a Danaher company, offers a comprehensive array of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, retirement benefits, and more. For more information, visit danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $190,000 - $215,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Schedule

This is an on-site role requiring travel up to 20% of the time.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. For candidates based outside of New York City or applying for roles outside of New York City, for more information about conditions of any job offer, please contact: 1-202-419-7762 or applyassistance@danaher.com.