Senior Director, Engineering

Role Summary

Senior Director, Engineering responsible for the technical and strategic leadership of the Engineering Function and Maintenance at the Fort Dodge Iowa site, leading the engineering team and influencing global technical strategy within Elanco 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 in the qualifications.

Additional Requirements

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