Senior Director, Manufacturing

Edwards Lifesciences • Irvine, CA

1d • $187,000 - $265,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Supply Chain team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world. Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At Edwards Lifesciences facilities around the world, our Manufacturing teams create the tools, technologies, and devices that transform patients’ lives. As part of our sewing, assembly, delivery, and distribution teams, your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality. Your purpose-driven work will help leave lasting and positive impacts on patient lives. We’re looking for a bold, forward-thinking Senior Director, Manufacturing Leader, who thrives on building strong teams and delivering results. You’ll lead both established lines and new scale-ups with a continuous improvement mindset. Reporting to the Plant General Manager, you’ll be a key driver of innovation and performance on the site leadership team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field.
• Proven track record of leading high-performing teams and driving operational excellence in a manufacturing related industry.
• Onsite required.
• 14 years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Deep expertise in manufacturing systems, processes, and financial acumen.
• Strong track record of leading large-scale projects, cross-functional initiatives.
• Leads through transformation with resilience and clarity; drives adoption of new processes and systems.
• Builds, mentors, and retains high-performing teams; fosters a culture of accountability and engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, coach senior leaders, and manage organizational change.
• Experience developing and leveraging KPIs to align operations with strategic business goals.
• Skilled in executive-level communication and stakeholder influence.

Nice To Haves

• Lean certification.

Responsibilities

• Direct team members and manufacturing activities with overall responsibility of developing systems, planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, recommending and implementing changes to methods through several department managers.
• Instill a manufacturing culture, engage staff morale, and ensure employees' safety.
• Develop a robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across the manufacturing organization.
• Collaborate with network leadership to develop operational strategy.
• Partner with cross-functional groups/resources to achieve tactical execution of business objectives.
• Oversee the implementation of multiple strategic manufacturing project portfolios activities (e.g., Lean initiatives and plant projects) including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects.
• Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, alternative solutions, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with cross functional groups.
• Collaborate and align with other plant leadership in driving standardized and optimized manufacturing operations programs.
• Responsible for meeting operational performance and strategic objectives (e.g., finance, absorption, manufacturing cost, quality, safety, environmental compliance, MPS targets, capacity).
• Drive a value stream mindset and culture of continuous improvement based on Lean and Six Sigma principles and EW Production System (EPS).

Benefits

• Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees