About the Role
The Operations Director is responsible for overseeing production and manufacturing activities, providing leadership to the Cortland, NY Plant of 300+ associates. This critical role involves developing processes to maximize safety, quality, productivity, and followership for Manufacturing Operations, Facilities, Manufacturing Engineering, and Materials.
Responsibilities
- Drive activities to achieve annual Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity targets through effective use of Danaher Business System (DBS) tools.
- Build a winning team by performing supervisory activities, including recruitment, selection, training, development, coaching, and administering performance and salary reviews.
- Ensure KPIs and key goals are achieved, manufacturing capacity meets the sales plan, and sustainable processes and capabilities are built.
- Promote, lead, and coach others in the use of DBS tools and lean concepts to improve manufacturability, productivity, yields, cost, process variation, and customer quality.
- Partner with HR and the leadership team to maintain headcount, overtime, factory expenses, and fiscal budgets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience, including 5+ years managing people in a manufacturing setting.
- Experience with successful implementation of Continuous Improvements, Lean Manufacturing programs, principles, and practices.
- Strong understanding of CI tools and techniques with the ability to demonstrate sustained results.
- Thorough understanding of the inter-relationship between manufacturing, S & OP, engineering, inventory/materials management, quality and regulatory affairs programs, and purchasing.
- Exceptional leadership and team-building skills.
- Ability to demonstrate development and sustainability of a safety culture that achieved outstanding outcomes.
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and people skills.
- Sensitivity to cultural differences.
- Results-oriented, creative, and self-motivated.
- Strong financial background with the ability to articulate how operational decisions impact financial outcomes.
- Demonstrated safety leadership knowledge and prior experience driving safety programs that yielded measurable safety performance improvements.
Skills
- Danaher Business System (DBS) tools
- Daily Management
- KPI action plan development
- Recruitment and selection
- Training and development
- Coaching
- Performance and salary review processes
- Lean concepts
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
Location
- Cortland, NY
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of experience with Master's degree
- 5+ years managing people in a manufacturing setting
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $190,000 - $215,000
- Eligible for bonus/incentive pay
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit programs
- Health care program
- Paid time off
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Retirement Benefits
About the Company
- Pall Corporation is a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, helping customers solve their toughest challenges.
- Pall's products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies.
- Pall is one of Danaher’s operating companies.
- Danaher Business System (DBS) is utilized.
- Visit www.danaher.com for more information.
Equal Opportunity
- Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.
- The U.S. EEO posters are available here.
- We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
- Contact 1-202-419-7762 or applyassistance@danaher.com for reasonable accommodation.
