Role Summary
Sr. Director - Profiling and Design responsible for leading front-end planning and design oversight for major manufacturing capital projects within Global Facilities Delivery, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, safety standards, and delivering value through early-stage capital planning.
Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering team focused on front-end planning and design oversight for major manufacturing capital projects.
- Manage exempt-level staff including performance reviews, development plans, staffing models, workload assignments, and compensation reviews.
- Oversee departmental expenses and cost center management.
- Ensure project execution aligns with corporate policies and procedures, financial policies, engineering and quality standards, and applicable safety, environmental, industry regulatory, and government regulations.
- Promote and maintain a strong safety culture across internal teams and external partners.
- Actively participate in safety/environmental event reviews and corrective actions.
- Engage in GFD leadership activities including weekly leadership team meetings, quarterly divisional meetings, staff administration, improvement initiatives, and team-building activities.
- Provide oversight for front-end planning on major capital projects, including profiling and design phases.
- Build and lead a team to fulfill design oversight deliverables.
- Influence global teams to engage in early-stage capital planning for optimal investment value.
- Ensure leveraged design processes are adequately supervised.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 10 years in manufacturing operations.
- Prior management experience.
- Prior experience with asset delivery and site operations.
- Ability to travel internationally; must hold a valid passport.
Skills
- Leadership and team-building capabilities
- Integrity and respect for people
- 360-degree influence
- Strong communication skills
- Commitment to safety
Education
- Not specified beyond degree requirements in Qualifications
Additional Preferences
- Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
- Knowledge in quality systems, insulin/API and fill/finish operations, device assembly and packaging
- Experience with GFD policies and procedures
- Proficiency in capital investment modeling and requests
- Foreign language competency
- International work/living experience
- Passion for continuous improvement and change leadership
Other Information
- International travel required (15%–30%), including weekends and multi-week stays.