Role OverviewThe Director Operations will oversee ClearCorrect US Operations - a Straumann Group owned manufacturing plant in RoundRock, TX. This role lives our customer centricity by delivering patient specific medical devices to our customers all over North America and selected APAC countries. Leading a team of 250 motivated employees with state-of-the-art processes, highest quality raw materials and excellent IT infrastructure provides best success criteria for future growth. International exchange within the Operations community will further expand the scope of this role. The position is reporting into the SVP Operations OBU in Straumann's Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.
Responsabilities- Overall responsible for daily operations including site management, planning, logistics, process development, supply chain, quality, and productivity
- Proactively strives for zero accident, deploying a world class Safety Operating System, meeting internal and external safety standards
- Supporting Straumann's sustainability and ESG strategy and driving towards zero landfill and 100% green energy utilization in all activities
- Define transparent and KPI driven leadership environment, where people are key and transparent communication are self-evident
- Ensure a high focus on continuous improvements and implementation of Lean Operating System
- Translates customer requirements into state-of-the-art strategies and processes, resulting in cost-effective processing and profitable manufacturing
- Create a united team with a common vision for the site; ensure motivation and clear focus in further skill and talent development, deploying a culture of development, succession planning and our culture journey
- Control of the multi-million USD capital, allocating investments and overseeing successful installation and payback
- Review and reports performance data that includes financial, sales, and activity reports to monitor and measure departmental productivity, goal achievement, and overall effectiveness
- Embeds a pragmatic and disciplined approach to compliance with medical device regulations, standards and norms and lives such mindset in front of his/her employees
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, supply chain management or related engineering field
- 10 years of experience working on projects involving process improvement and leading cross functional global teams
- Demonstrated ability developing and defining NPI strategies, and KPIs for safety, quality, delivery and cost
- Demonstrated ability aligning Operations and Product Development to establish deliverables
- Demonstrated ability working with lean methodologies to reduce project life cycle time, mitigate risks, and launch products on timely and cost- effective basis
