Sr Site Director, Coralville

Danaher Corporation•Coralville, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Site Director is responsible for manufacturing operations at the Coralville site supporting the Custom Oligos, NGS and CRISPR business units. A successful candidate defines the overall operations strategy, structure, and processes to ensure customer requirements are met for products for the assigned business units at the Coralville, Iowa site. S/he will work within the site to drive effective and sustainable processes around Safety, Manufacturing Operations, Quality Control, and Operational employee engagement; partners with supply chain, platform engineering and DBS leaders to optimize flow, drive capacity growth, and support new product introductions. This position reports to the Vice President, Global Operations and is part of the Manufacturing Department, located in Coralville, IA and will be an on-site role.

Requirements

BS degree in business, engineering, or other related discipline.
10+ years people management experience, directly and indirectly leading organizations of 10 or more individuals, globally.
Candidates must have experience with successful implementation of Lean Manufacturing principles and practices.
Consistently makes timely decisions even in the face of complexity, balancing systematic analysis with decisiveness.
Innovative thinker and creative problem solver.
Strong influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders.
Convey information with clarity and directness, ensuring the message is understood across diverse, global teams.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Master’s degree in Management, Operations Management, and/or technical field preferred.
Experience in a diagnostics manufacturing environment highly preferred
Experience within a matrixed, global organization preferred.

Responsibilities

Partner with Operations Leadership, Commercial and BU leadership to align and provide consistent leadership to ensure effective and efficient execution of assigned projects and growth initiatives.
Drive an engaging team culture through leading the Operations team to achieve delivery of distinctively high-quality products and services; to include performance, reliability, cost, and on-time delivery.
Identify and close skill gaps in the Operations teams while also guiding and mentoring.
Develops and monitors performance goals and metrics to ensure a culture of continuous improvement.
Accountable for promoting and deploying Danaher Business Systems (DBS) to achieve break-through performance in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
Actively manage a DBS kaizen funnel to provide visibility of events, focus on gap closure, and sustainment.
Ensures conformance to quality standards by creating and maintaining SW and training strategies.
Communicates with all levels of peers and management.
Other duties as assigned by the Sr. VP, Global Operations or other members of executive management.
Demonstrates and upholds behavior consistent with the Integrated DNA Technologies Core Values and delivers the Integrated DNA Technologies experience to customers and other business associates.