Role Summary
Engineering Senior Director, Site Expansion. Lead the seamless integration of a large site expansion project into the site commercial operation, focusing on operational readiness and alignment with the Parenteral manufacturing network.
Responsibilities
- Deliver engineering support for major expansion projects partnering with the Global Project Delivery team to drive efficiency, organizational integration and operational readiness of project integration into the Parenteral manufacturing network
- Ensure thorough measurement and analytics on key questions, business needs and delivery of project milestones to drive the business and better serve customers
- Support site annual strategic planning and business plan processes, ensuring project needs including resources are planned and supported
- Lead and manage operational readiness of major expansion project
- Build engineering capabilities for site expansion including planning, hiring and onboarding of internal and external resources
- Partner with the site Engineering leader to ensure alignment between ongoing operations and project needs
- Lead and facilitate key project meetings and ensure follow up on actions and inform stakeholders
- Anticipate and facilitate resolution of issues that impact key project deliverables
- Ensure appropriate governance to ensure safety, quality, agility and execution of the most important work
- Monitor progress on project milestones and collaborate with site project management to align on the integrated project schedule and escalate/remove barriers
- Support site in facilitating consistent processes and efficient planning
- Drive connectivity between sites, functions and networks to align strategic objectives, planning and execution
- Establish and manage documentation and communication of key decisions, actions, and modifications in time, budget, scope, and risks to key stakeholders
- Influence senior management and internal/external customers for effective stakeholder management
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 10+ engineering experience in a parenteral manufacturing site
- Experience onboarding and/or executing larger capital projects
- Previous facility or area startup experience
- Prior management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with cross-functional teams including network/global functions
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities
Skills
- Operational readiness
- Project management
- Engineering leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Stakeholder management
- Governance and compliance
- Communication and analytics
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering