Vice President of Operations Manufacturing (Life Sciences)

Vida Group International; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Vida Group International in Irvine, CA seeks an experienced operations leader to oversee manufacturing and technical centers, driving safety, efficiency, and strategic alignment with company goals. You will promote a data-driven culture, manage budgets, develop talent, and lead cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes process safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement in a multi-product facility.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant discipline.
• Ten years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility.
• Ideally from a lean manufacturing environment with a focus on operations, lean and CI.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards.
• Regulatory compliance focus is a plus.
• Proven management experience in process plant.
• Ability to operate with limited resources and drive results.
• Experience creating innovative solutions for complex problems in a single train / multi-product facility.
• Proven ability to lead, direct and motivate others.
• Strong talent development and performance coaching.

Responsibilities

• Ensure manufacturing and distribution operations meet safety and environmental rules and regulations.
• Instill a plant safety culture to drive world-class safety performance.
• Establish strategic goals for manufacturing and technical centers aligned with company values.
• Build collaborative relationships with business leaders and stakeholders.
• Drive productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and leveraging effective technologies.
• Develop plant strategy to meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals.
• Create metrics and evaluate procedures; apply improvements using data.
• Develop and adjust operation budgets to promote profitability and monitor margins.
• Responsible for staff management and development including hiring, training and retention.
• Cooperates with business units to meet company objectives.
• Leads change management activities for the area of responsibility.
• Coach, mentor and develop the team for continuous learning and global collaboration.
• Provide process technology SME support to operations.
• Support process safety programs and sustainability initiatives.

Skills

data-driven operations

change leadership

budget management

lean manufacturing

process safety

regulatory compliance

team leadership

communication skills

talent development

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

• Ensure that manufacturing and distribution operations meet all company and government safety and environmental rules and regulations.
• Instills a plant safety culture to drive world-class occupational and process safety performance.
• Establish strategic goals for manufacturing and technical center while aligning operational activities with Company goals and values.
• Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact with business, senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Drives plant productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and leveraging most effective technologies across the regions.
• Establish strategy for plants to ensure that delivery of manufactured products meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals in support of associated business objectives.
• Create metrics and evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics of various disciplines.
• Work with plant managers to develop and adjust operation budgets to promote profitability, monitor revenue margins and ensure Company goals areachieved or exceeded.
• Responsible for staff management and development including assigning and directing work, appraising performance, hiring, training and retention, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Cooperates and effectively communicates with business units to meet Company objectives.
• Leads change management activities for area of responsibility.
• Coach, mentor and develop the team by fostering an environment of continuous learning, and encouraging global collaboration in a geographically and culturally dispersed organization.
• Provides process technology subject matter expertise to operations team.
• Supports and champions any process safety programs, policies and procedures.
• Supports sustainability initiatives.

Knowledge / Experience / Skills Required

• Demonstrated ability to build on new data-led culture in operations facility, and be an effective driver of change.
• Degree in a relevant discipline
• Ten years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility in the consumer/electro-mechanical industry preferred.
• Ideally from a competitive/lean manufacturing environment, with a strong focus on operations, lean and CI.
• Knowledge of current Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards.
• A keen focus on regulatory compliance a plus.
• Proven management experience in process plant.
• Worked in an environment of leading organization capabilities. In other words able to get it done with limited resources (people and financials).
• Demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative solutions to complex problems running a single train / multi-product operating facility.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and positively motivate others.
• Strong ability to identify, develop and encourage talent.
• Demonstrated results in process improvement and experience in reliability best practices and programs
• Proven ability to measure performance and deliver against objectives.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization.
• Evidence of ongoing training/development at a senior level to current best practice.