Associate Director, Manufacturing

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter

The Associate Director of Manufacturing is a strategically important leader for the site, they are responsible for all aspects of production to ensure our products are safe, meet all quality standards, delivered on time and in full and at the right cost. As a key leader to this site, they will ensure we are passionate about achieving the vision of this site to be the premier site at Baxter for talent, innovation, and operational excellence.  They will have direct responsibilities for guiding their team to ensure each of every member understands how they help to achieve our vision and ultimately fulfill our mission to save and sustain lives.  This person will also help influence and coordinate outside the facility to ensure teams and resources are aligned to effectively execute on key projects and initiatives that are part of Manufacturing.

What you'll be doing

• Charge of Production, Maintenance, OPEX and Planning area.

• Establishes, or recommends to management, major corporate manufacturing strategies, objectives, and policies for company. Support the implementation of a Total Predictive Maintenance program to minimize equipment failures associated to predictable tendency.

• Review operational schedules and coordinates manufacturing activities to ensure production schedule adherence and quality of products comply with specifications.

• Reviews manufacturing engineering performance reports and resolves technical and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays. Reviews production schedules to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations.

• Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products.

• Prepares operational schedules and coordinates manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meets specifications.

• Reviews production and operating reports and resolves operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays

• Directs preparation of budgets, reviews budget proposals, and prepares necessary supporting documentation and justification.

• Drive value improvement programs.

• Develop departmental budgets for spending, labour and scrap, and monitoring performance against standard using a disciplined operating mechanism and taking appropriate corrective action.

• Develop areas budgetary requirements (annually) and forecasts (quarterly).

• Inspects machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization through OEE.

• Develops or revises standard operational and working practices and observes workers to ensure compliance with standards.

• Drive the team to achieve the proposed goal in compliance to all internal and external regulations and standards.

• Ensure regulatory knowledge and compliance

• Identify and execute long term strategic goals to ensure sustainable competitive advantages by implementing operational strategies that ensure predictive and consistent results; and continuous improvement.

• Identifies initiates and facilitates continuous improvements, lean manufacturing activities and initiatives, such as 6S, visual management, kaizen. 

• Support the implementation of quality initiatives such as internal and supplier performance metrics.

• Develop and enhance managerial and leadership skills across the organization.

• Develop teams and ensure personnel accountability.

What you'll bring

Bachelor Degree in Microbiology, Chemistry or Engineering in a related Science, MBA Preferred

Project Management

Experience implementing Lean Enterprise in manufacturing environment, practical experience using Lean tools

Previous management experience in the manufacture of sterile drugs within a GMP environment is preferred

10+ years manufacturing/operations with a minimum of 3 years leading leaders

Ability to lead multiple priorities in a manufacturing plant setting.

Ability to analyze and interpret scientific and statistical data.  Apply data analysis to problem-solve and make strategic decisions.

Strong professional writing skills and ability to prepare technical reports.  Ability to clearly articulate information during regulatory/client inspections.

Ability to understand GMPs and other applicable regulatory guidelines and ability to handle audit-related activities.

Strong assessment and troubleshooting skills.

Ability to collect and analyze data and information to resolve paths for process improvement and potential root cause.

Ability to respond to detailed inquiries and present information to groups and senior leaders.

Validated critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Solid understanding of manufacturing business acumen.

Green or Black Belt certification preferred.Consistent track record of meeting budgets, schedules and performance requirements and holding other accountable to the same.

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