Sr Director, Sustaining Engineering

Purpose and Scope:
The Head of Sustaining Center for Value Stream Dialyzer and Capacity Planning (VSD) for In-Center holds two critical global leadership mandates:

Lead Sustaining Engineering and post-launch product lifecycle management for the 1.2B Value Stream Dialyzers business

Lead integrated capacity planning and capacity strategy for the 4B In-Center business unit

For VSD, the position protects business continuity, product compliance, customer supply, manufacturing performance, and lifecycle competitiveness across the global Dialyzer portfolio.

For In-Center, the position establishes the global capacity-planning framework and translates commercial demand, portfolio strategy, regional growth, and technology roadmaps into capacity scenarios, investment priorities, and manufacturing-network recommendations.

The position reports to the SVP, Value Stream Dialyzers Leader, serves as a member of the VSD Leadership Team, and operates with an enterprise-wide mandate across In-Center.

Strategic Business Impact Protect 1.2B in annual VSD revenue by safeguarding product availability, regulatory compliance, manufacturing continuity, and post-launch performance.

Lead capacity planning for the 4B In-Center business, ensuring timely capacity availability to support growth, portfolio transitions, and customer demand.

Own the global Dialyzer portfolio after launch, including reliability, compliance, manufacturability, supply resilience, cost competitiveness, and lifecycle value.

Define and authorize VSD sustaining priorities, including critical product, process, material, supplier, quality, and manufacturing changes.

Develop and recommend In-Center capacity assumptions and scenarios and major capacity, technology, and manufacturing-network investments.

Authorize business-continuity actions when supply, quality, regulatory, supplier, or manufacturing risks threaten business performance.

Drive structural productivity and cost improvement across the established Dialyzer portfolio and manufacturing network.

Build and lead global organizations with strong engineering, analytical, financial, and strategic planning capabilities.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

VSD Sustaining Engineering and Lifecycle Leadership Define, approve, and lead the global Sustaining Engineering strategy for Value Stream Dialyzers.

Hold executive accountability for the performance and continuity of the Dialyzer portfolio following commercial launch.

Authorize and prioritize product, process, material, supplier, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing changes based on patient, business, compliance, and supply impact.

Lead the transition of newly launched products into stable, scalable, and cost-effective lifecycle management.

Approve lifecycle roadmaps and recommendations for product extension, redesign, transfer, rationalization, hold, or discontinuation.

Anticipate and mitigate lifecycle risks, including obsolescence, material discontinuation, supplier dependency, quality trends, and evolving regulatory requirements.

Serve as the executive escalation and decision authority for critical sustaining issues within the position’s mandate.

VSD Business Continuity and Competitiveness Authorize cross-functional response programs where supplier, material, quality, regulatory, capacity, or manufacturing risks threaten customer supply.

Approve mitigation priorities, contingency measures, and resource deployment within delegated authority.

Establish governance and executive visibility for material business-continuity risks.

Define and approve the VSD productivity and lifecycle competitiveness roadmap.

Lead initiatives in automation, yield improvement, process optimization, design-to-value, material cost reduction, standardization, and complexity…