Senior Director, Engineering

Role Summary

Senior Director, Engineering at Elanco. Responsible for the technical and strategic leadership of the Engineering Function and Maintenance at the Fort Dodge Iowa site, and a member of the Global Elanco Technical Operations Leadership Team to set and drive global technical strategy for Manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Develop Engineering Team: Provide leadership and performance management for the Site Engineering team, including maintenance, process engineers, and capital project managers, while also developing technical talent across Elanco.
• Strategic Planning: Develop the long-term strategy for the engineering function and create a strategic investment plan for the Site facilities.
• Asset Management & Compliance: Ensure all Site assets are qualified, maintained, and recapitalized to comply with Elanco standards and capabilities.
• Operational Support & Improvement: Support manufacturing operations to achieve production goals, driving continuous improvement of assets to enhance overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and optimize resources.
• Capital Project Execution: Accountable for the effective and efficient planning and execution of all capital investments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering or Higher.
• Must have several years experience of Engineering Team Leadership in the areas of maintenance, reliability, process engineering support or capital planning and delivery.
• Must have several years experience in FDA, EMA (EU GMP), USDA regulated, Animal Health, Pharmaceutical or Biotech manufacturing environment.

Skills

• Leading an engineering team and technical agenda to achieve quantifiable successes with optimized resources.
• Coaching and developing individuals and teams to improve technical capability or delivery.
• Appropriate technical depth, curiosity and decision making in ambiguous situations or whilst under pressure.
• Demonstrated communication and influence to gain support and confidence in a technical agenda.
• Organizational influence and collaboration to leverage and drive a broader improvement agenda at both the site and within the global engineering function.

Education

• Not specified beyond Bachelor of Engineering or higher.

Additional Requirements

• Location: Fort Dodge, Iowa
• Monday through Friday work schedule with occasional off-schedule work on site or off site
• Domestic travel required periodically to visit other manufacturing sites and for significant business initiatives