Operations Director

Pall; City of Cortland (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Pall Corporation is seeking an Operations Director to lead Cortland NY plant operations with 300+ associates, focusing on safety, quality, productivity and lean deployment. This on-site role reports to the VP Operations North America and Energy+.

You will develop processes to maximize safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness while aligning with DBS methodologies. You will recruit and develop a Winning Team, manage headcount and budgets, and drive continuous improvement across Manufacturing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years, including 5+ years managing people in a manufacturing setting.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity targets using DBS tools and KPI action plans.

Skills

Leadership

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

People management

Safety leadership

Financial acumen

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree in related field

Job description

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danahers 15+ operating companies, our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies.

From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to papereveryday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Operations Director is responsible for oversight of activities in production and manufacturing. This position is a critical role providing leadership to the Cortland, NY Plant of 300+ associates. In this role the Operations Director will develop processes that will maximize safety, quality, productivity and followership for Manufacturing Operations, Facilities, Manufacturing Engineering, and Materials.

This position reports to the VP Operations North America and Energy+ and is part of the Operations team located in Cortland NY and is an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Drive activities intended to achieve annual Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity targets through effective use of Danaher Business System (DBS) tools including but not limited to the efficient execution of Daily Management and KPI action plan development.
• Build a Winning Team by performing supervisory activities, including recruitment and selection, training and development, coaching, and administering performance and salary review processes for direct reports.
• Ensure the KPIs and key goals are achieved, that manufacturing capacity meets the sales plan and that you are building sustainable processes and capabilities.
• Promote, lead and coach others in the use of DBS tools and lean concepts to improve manufacturability, productivity, yields, cost, process variation, and customer quality.
• Partner with HR and your leadership team to maintain headcount, overtime, factory expenses, and fiscal budgets set by annual budgets.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelors 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 have strong understanding CI tools and techniques along with the ability to demonstrate sustained results.
• Must possess a thorough 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 demonstrate how you have developed and sustained a safety culture that achieved outstanding outcomes.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and people skills, sensitivity to cultural differences, results oriented, creative, and self-motivated.
• Strong financial background with the ability to speak with clarity on how operational decisions articulate in the financial outcomes.
• Demonstrated safety leadership knowledge and prior experience driving safety programs that yielded measurable safety performance improvements.

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time

Pall, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

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

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and RetirementBenefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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