Site Leader, Verona

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The Site Director position will be responsible for directing the manufacturing operations in a manner that is compliant with all applicable international, federal, state and local laws and regulations. The Site Director is responsible for end-to-end process, equipment, materials, and employees within the assigned location. The Site Director is accountable for delivering uninterrupted and unconstrained flow of compliant products, while meeting cost of goods standards, quality standards, and regulatory standards (domestic and international as applicable) for all products.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Provide a clear vision for the integration of the entire site into Ceva corporation, and Ceva U.S. Lead effort to align organization goals with the Site goals (People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost)
• Inspire, motivate, empower and encourage engagement of team members to achieve the Site goals
• Lead by example. "Roll up sleeves" and demonstrate the required behaviors of Ceva and the Lenexa Production System (LPS) by performing the work needed to drive a high performing organization
• Develop leaders within the Site to ensure a robust pipeline of talent for succession planning
• Support the leadership team of the Ceva Lenexa Bio Campus in deployment of any transformation management initiatives, strategic long term planning, and annual budget planning across the site through coaching, mentoring, and full engagement across all functions
• Sponsorship: Drive continuous improvement by leveraging the cross functionality of the Site and the Network to develop effective solutions, identify and remove obstacles, and share/implement best practices
• Drive Go See and Kaizen Event activities, including identification of opportunities that are aligned with key business goals
• Prioritize and evaluate continuous improvement opportunities based on their impact to the Site & Organization goals
• Ensure compliance to all regulatory agencies while ensuring manufacture of products with a Quality and Safety focus
• This would require the support, and full involvement with, internal and external Quality and Regulatory audits
• Ensure all processes and procedures related to the Site are in full accordance to our local and global systems and policies
• Management: Ensure that the information exchange process between all Tier levels is efficient and effective
• Trend, analyze, and find root causes of issues
• Identify required resources to ensure that improvement actions are implemented timely and correctly
• Identify skills, competencies, and staffing gaps, and put a plan in place to close those gaps
• Actively demonstrate and encourage full commitment for the health, safety, and well-being of all employees
• Responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the management of the site teams to include hiring, training, coaching, performance management, time and attendance management, etc.
• Full responsibility and accountability for the regulatory compliance of Select Agent manufacturing and testing at the Verona facility
• Coaching: Coach, develop, and drive the Site members to: Embrace and leverage the Tier Board process for improving communication, making problems visible, and solving problems
• Establish and use meaningful working level metrics
• Utilize continuous improvement methodology & tools (Kaizen, A3’s, Go See, Process Maps, fishbone, and others)
• Embrace the Hoshin Kanri – management of objectives process
• Coach individuals on how to resolve interpersonal conflicts limiting team performance

Qualifications

• Education - B.S./M.S. degree or the equivalent with more than 10 years' experience in human or animal biopharma manufacturing
• Minimum of 5 years of management/leadership experience within a Bio Technology environment
• Demonstrated performance in Change Management, including evidence of successful implementation improvement initiatives impacting people, products, and processes