Sr Principal Program Manager, Manufacturing Solutions

Waters • Milford, CT

87d

About The Position

We are seeking a highly motivated, results-driven, and team-oriented professional to oversee the strategic priorities and operational programs for our Milford Manufacturing Operations. This pivotal leadership role is responsible for managing and executing the site's overall portfolio-including strategic insourcing and outsourcing, technology transfers, manufacturing redesign initiatives, and automation integration projects. The successful candidate will operate with a high level of autonomy, exercising sound judgment and strategic thinking to drive complex initiatives forward with minimal oversight. As a key orchestrator, the successful candidate will align cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure seamless collaboration and successful delivery of high-impact initiatives. This position works closely with stakeholders from manufacturing engineering, supply chain, procurement, quality, and operations leadership to ensure alignment with strategic business goals and operational excellence. They will leverage expertise in process optimization, lean manufacturing, and systems integration to identify opportunities for automation, insourcing, outsourcing, new technology application etc. and design cost-effective solutions, and oversee implementation from concept to completion. The right candidate will possess budget management experience, strong leadership abilities, program management and process excellence background, have demonstrated experience leading large, complex initiatives involving multiple technologies, teams and cross-functional processes. This hands-on position requires dynamic leadership, excellent interpersonal skills, problem solving, critical thinking, risk management as well as a compelling development of business cases to see the organization succeed.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering degree required; Advanced degree preferred.
• Comprehensive Knowledge of process automation and control components, motion and logic controls and equipment design.
• Machine safety implementation across semi, fully automated equipment.
• Experience with Allen-Bradley (Control Logix, Compact Logix, PanelView), equivalent Siemens products and industrial communication networks.
• 12+ years of dynamic experience in program and project management with a consistent record of successfully completing large-scale programs.
• Project Management experience: PMP certification preferred. Scrum Master certifications a plus.
• Ability to analyze sophisticated situations, identify challenges, and propose actionable solutions.
• Change management experience required.
• Strong leadership skills, self-directed and the ability to make independent decisions and influence change.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills to communicate consistently and effectively.
• Proficiency with SAP and Microsoft applications required.
• Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions.
• Familiarity with cGMP, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all initiatives carried out with Zero injury, through effective risk assessment, management of change and risk mitigation.
• Champion a mentally safe environment for all employees and coworkers.
• Establish and maintain project management standards, tools, and best practices in MIL, while creating project culture and mindset across the functions and project owners.
• Work directly with all project business sponsors to articulate expected outcome, establishing metrics for measuring success ensuring that projects deliver value.
• Key inputs to define digitalization / automation 3-5 years roadmap aimed to improve safety, quality and/or productivity.
• Define capital requirements, gain approvals based on robust business cases and execute initiatives to achieve project success criteria.
• Work with IT, Business Partners, R&D, and Global Operations functions to develop and deploy appropriate technological advancements and digital solutions to drive our efficient use of resources.
• Own capital investment cadence and ensuring cash flow is in consistency with project execution.
• Provide cadence and control of Milford Operations' Capital Expenditure, ensuring discipline around appropriation and spending.
• Establish long-range capacity planning / modeling for Milford Operations.
• Lead cross-functional teams and generate project plans to ensure that activities and deliverables are executed in a timely manner and to budget.
• Prioritize needs and effectively schedule projects and resources to support multiple projects in parallel.
• Report to Operations Management on a regular basis regarding program status, barriers, actions, and requests.
• Enable and accelerate deployment of Lean Operating System and support a CI mindset to improve processes and behaviors.
• Identify risks that could become a barrier and address those risks accordingly to make sure execution.
• Identify project interdependencies to ensure proper execution and planning.
• Experience with estimating costs for capital equipment for processing automation.
• Identify opportunities for automation and scope out projects and develop comprehensive specifications to build custom automated machines and tools.
• Manage projects from concept through completion.
• Perform research, review and develop manufacturing equipment and automation systems maximizing efficiencies.
• Develop documentation related to automation and systems for standard operation, validation FAT, SAT, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to handle large scale automation projects for various departments, and comfortable managing multiple concurrent projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees