Senior Director - Operations

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper—everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improving product quality, minimizing emissions and waste, and safeguarding health.

For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

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The Senior Director of Operations will have full accountability for aligning strategic priorities to drive performance at Pall’s Cortland site. This leader will oversee approximately 400 associates and drive transformation and operational excellence across a unionized, highly regulated operation that supports all four Pall businesses and manufactures proprietary, market-differentiating technologies. With full P&L accountability and responsibility for safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, and working-capital objectives, the Senior Director of Operations will lead a diverse, cross-functional management team spanning Value Streams/Production, Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS&S), Facilities and Maintenance, and Continuous Improvement/DBS.

The successful candidate will support the development of Pall’s overall operations strategy and priorities while balancing the needs of multiple Pall businesses. This leader will be expected to develop and continually refine organizational capability, allocate resources effectively, and drive sustained continuous improvement and transformation across the operation.

This position reports to the VP Operations North America and Energy+ and is part of the Operations team located in Cortland NY. This is an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Drive activities intended to position the site and the broader N.A. Operations organization to successfully respond to increased demand from the global semiconductor industry while maintaining a focus on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity through effective use of Danaher Business System (DBS) tools including but not limited to the efficient execution of Daily Management and KPI action plan development.
• Build a Winning Team that is prepared to meet the exceptionally high product complexity demands required to manufacture foundational Pall technologies using proprietary processes in the following key market sectors: nuclear products, gas filtration, semiconductors, and other highly regulated industries.
• Proactively negotiate with business leaders both internal and external to Pall to establish realistic delivery expectation and prioritize the development of talent and the creation of agile people processes that enable the site to dynamically allocate resources to meet shifting demands in a fast-changing…