Operations Director

Danaher Corporation•Cortland, NY

3d•$190,000 - $215,000•Onsite

About The Position

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 Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s 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 paper—everyday 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.

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 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.

Responsibilities

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.