Manufacturing Transfer Lead — Cross-Site Readiness

Zimmer Biomet; Warsaw (IN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Zimmer Biomet is seeking a Transfer Planning Lead to develop and assess manufacturing transfers across sites, suppliers, and partners. You will drive planning activities for site-to-site transfers, insourcing, outsourcing, and external collaborations to ensure continuity and compliance.

You will evaluate readiness, equipment needs, capacity, and resource requirements while aligning plans with validation and packaging processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing transfers and project planning in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Develops integrated manufacturing transfer plans, timelines, milestones, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Assesses transfer scope, product complexity, site readiness, equipment needs, and capacity constraints.
• Aligns transfer plans with validation, inspection, packaging, labeling requirements where applicable.
• Drives portfolio visibility and prioritization for high-value projects.
• Tracks progress and communicates transfer status, risks, and recovery actions to stakeholders.

Skills

Project planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk assessment

Quality systems

Communication

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

ERP systems

PLM systems

Microsoft Project

Job description

Zimmer Biomet is seeking a Transfer Planning Lead to develop and assess manufacturing transfers across sites, suppliers, and partners. You will drive planning activities for site-to-site transfers, insourcing, outsourcing, and external collaborations to ensure continuity and compliance.

You will evaluate readiness, equipment needs, capacity, and resource requirements while aligning plans with validation and packaging processes.