Director, Manufacturing

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Department: TAS Manufacturing Management

At Terumo Aortic, our mission is to transform the treatment of aortic disease worldwide. With our comprehensive portfolio of surgical, endovascular and hybrid technologies, we enable physicians to find the right fit for each patient anatomy.

The company has over 1,250 associates around the world with manufacturing facilities in Glasgow, Scotland and Sunrise, Florida.

Terumo Aortic is focused on the continuing development of new and innovative products driving the growth of the business globally. Associates are part of a stimulating and exciting environment in which they can develop their skills and achieve career goals. Working for the company, each associate’s role contributes greatly to helping to save or improve the lives of patients in over 100 countries worldwide.

At Terumo we believe in the power of personal growth and will encourage you to get in the driver's seat - progressing in the direction you want to go by deepening your skills throughout your career. We want you to be bold, think outside the box, experiment, innovate and deliver what's next for quality healthcare. You will be part of a collaborative, respectful and resilient team of associates and leaders around the world, working together as partners to achieve more than you thought possible, providing real-world, impactful solutions for patients.

Join us and help shape wherever we go next!

Reporting to Sunrise Site Leader, the Director, Manufacturing is a member of the Operations Leadership Team (OLT) and has the primary responsibility for providing leadership for the organization's Manufacturing department to ensure production output meets on-time-delivery goals, conforms to quality requirements, and is produced at the best cost while achieving a stepped improvement in key manufacturing performance metrics. The role will be responsible for participating in organizational and program budgets in collaboration with TA, and TMC in support of the fiscal year annual operating plan.

It will also set the direction and expectation for the coaching, performance management, and development of associates within the departments that reinforces the Terumo culture and way of doing business. In addition, this position will contribute to the development and implementation of Terumo organizational strategies, policies and practices.

• Champions product quality as a top priority;
  Ensures compliance to quality systems and partner with Quality function in setting direction for production.
• Develop and implement tactics in production to constantly improve production capability, capacity, quality, costs and customer service goals for the site.
• Instill discipline in all level of production organization to run the most compliant and efficient manner
• Ensures that processes and procedures are in compliance and documented.
• Drives the organization toward maximum efficiency in production operations through metrics.
• Brings together functional resources to meet production objectives.
• Takes a leadership role to ensure R&D projects or special projects receive proper manufacturing support to succeed.
• Establish key business initiatives and sponsor involvement, direction and accountability.
• Initiate cross functional partnerships to identify and resolve production/engineering issues.
• Work cross functionally to establish, prioritize and ensure accountability to projects in improving department or plant performance.
• Leads the development of the staffing plan to meet on-going and future production demands.
• Educates, promotes, and models "World Class" Production practices. Coaches and mentors others in the organization in these tools and techniques.
• Fosters development of new process…