Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At Edwards Lifesciences facilities around the world, our Manufacturing teams create the tools, technologies, and devices that transform patients’ lives. As part of our sewing, assembly, delivery, and distribution teams, your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality. Your purpose-driven work will help leave lasting and positive impacts on patient lives.

The Role

Manage team and responsible for facilities and reliability engineering functions within assigned manufacturing plant.

How Will You Make An Impact?

Has overall responsibility of facilities and assets through their lifecycle including design, construction, implementation, and maintenance. Manage resources including expense priorities, capital and expense budgeting (e.g., AOP), and facilities and asset management (e.g., metrology/calibration, facility machine shop, critical systems, and spare parts. facilities and equipment maintenance, reliability engineering and other engineering services) Develop long term capital planning and execution plans aligned to the organization's strategy. Drive culture, engage staff morale and ensure employees' safety.
Direct team members and develop a robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across the engineering organization
Set facilities and equipment management, maintenance, asset management, predictive maintenance, and equipment reliability strategy around efforts to optimize business processes. Define and implement core competencies, by assessing business needs and developing, proposing and implementing solutions
Collaborate with network leadership to develop operational strategy. Partner with cross-functional groups/resources to achieve tactical execution plans of business objectives to ensure operational excellence, risk identification and reduction in compliance with quality, safety, and environmental standards
Negotiate and oversee the development and execution of plans, budgets and schedules for all facility and equipment modifications, expansions, shutdowns, infrastructure programs, capital investments for lifecycle management, capacity, upgrades and/or new construction in partnership with cross-functional teams. Anticipate business needs from an infrastructure standpoint and propose strategies to address
Responsible for general plant-wide manufacturing and shared services, contract management (e.g., security, cafe, cleaning services, services and service contracts, pest control) and establishing appropriate performance measures, SLA (Service Level Agreements), and standards
Collaborate with BU, Corporate, and other plants in the Global Supply Chain network maintain processes standardization and leverage best practices
Responsible for and drive the implementation of site facilities master plan. Oversight on cleanroom qualification, construction, controlled manufacturing drawings/procedures, and validations of the manufacturing plant
Drive a value stream mindset and culture of continuous improvement based on lean and Six Sigma principles and EW Production System (EPS)

What You Will Need?

Bachelors Degree in Engineering
Demonstrated track record in operations management
Experience working in a regulated industry

What Else You Require?

Expert understanding of engineering procedures while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems
Expert understanding of related aspects of facilities and asset management
Expert knowledge of financial acumen as it relates to facilities and asset management
Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of facilities and asset management to the business
Serve as core partner to senior leaders in Business Units, Functional Groups, Regions and IT
Strict attention to detail
Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts and Six Sigma
Interacts with senior management, and others concerning matters of significance to the company
Conduct business and technical briefings for senior and top management and for external representatives
Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers; interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization
Dedicated to quality client service and pro-active and responsive to client needs.
Develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.
Provide leadership and direction to large cross-functional teams to successfully implement global enterprise systems and related solutions
Develop relationships and leverage them to influence change
Support and solicit input from team members at all levels within the organization
Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

Sr Dir, Engineering Plant Operations

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