The Senior Plant Manager is responsible for leading and controlling manufacturing operations for significant product lines within Beckman Coulter Life Sciences. This role oversees the Loveland, Colorado facility, including operations for instruments, accessories, service parts, and consumables.
This position reports to the Director - North American Manufacturing and is part of the Global Operations and Supply Chain organization in Loveland, Colorado and will be an on-site role.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:- Lead the Loveland operations team in driving policy deployment, key performance indicators, and performance across Environmental Health and Safety, Quality, Scheduling, Buying, Engineering, Maintenance, Facilities, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Shipping, and Danaher Business System including deployment and sustaining daily management, visual management, standard work, dynamic Kanban, IMAG, Heijunka scheduling, root cause problem solving, and other DBS tools to deliver sustainable results.
- Establish and refresh a multi-year strategic vision for the site that drives action plans, accelerates continuous improvement, and supports near- and long-term business needs. Develop business plans, allocate budgets and resources, and ensure the staffing, tools, and specialized support required for cost-effective operations.
- Ensure customer requirements, shipment goals, business objectives, production plans, and manufacturing capacity requirements are achieved in alignment with demand and sales plans. Drive supply chain practices improve inventory accuracy, inventory turns, and overall operational reliability.
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing operations organization that is aligned, trained, empowered, accountable, and capable of supporting operational needs. Reduce standard costs through improvements in labor productivity, cycle time, expenses, overhead, scrap, and material costs.
- Ensure associate and environmental safety through strong leadership engagement and adherence to all Environmental, Health, and Safety policies and procedures. Ensure successful new product launches by allocating resources and ensuring standard work, standard training, and safe launch practices are in place.
- Drive On Time Delivery greater than 95% to customer request date through strong value stream management across scheduling, buying, production, warehousing, and shipping.
- Partner cross-functionally with Quality, Regulatory, R&D, Product Management, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Engineering teams to ensure operational execution, compliance, launch readiness, and customer satisfaction
The essential requirements of the job include:- Bachelor's degree with 14+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 12+ years of experience, in manufacturing environments such as assembly, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, equipment manufacturing, or process manufacturing, with 8+ years in leadership roles.
- Demonstrated expertise in people leadership, including leading, motivating, challenging, influencing, and driving change in a fast-moving business.
- Experience leading manufacturing value streams in a high-mix, low-volume environment. High tolerance for ambiguity and demonstrated success operating within a highly matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated success using continuous improvement tools and methodologies to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and associate engagement.
- Strong leadership presence on the shop floor, with the ability to lead by example, influence with or without authority, facilitate groups with varied perspectives, and bring teams to alignment.
- Communication skills that build productive relationships and influence others within the business and across organizations, with the ability to interact effectively with associates at all levels.
- Excellent project management and prioritization skills, solid business acumen, and the ability to deliver results in a shifting environment. Ability to identify problems, apply structured and disciplined root cause methodology using data, develop effective solutions, mitigate risk, and execute with urgency.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role
- Ability to travel 10%, minimum overnight for training
- Must have a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record
- Ability to lift, move or carry equipment up to 50lb
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:- Medical device, life sciences, diagnostics, biotechnology, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
- FDA, ISO 13485, customer audit, or regulated quality system environments.
- DBS, lean manufacturing, Kaizen facilitation, daily management, standard work, visual management, Kanban, or Heijunka scheduling.
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
The annual salary range for this role is $175,000 - 200,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.
