Director, Varicella DS Technical Operations

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- Pennsylvania
- West Pointtime type:
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August 17, 2026 (12 days left to apply) job requisition :
R410714
** Job Description
** Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations remain operational, continuously improve and innovate. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Validation.

** GENERAL

SUMMARY:

** The Director, DS Technical Operations for the Varicella Bulk B12 and B62 IPTs within the LVV E2E Technical Operations at the West Point site is responsible for the oversight of one or more technical teams. The primary responsibility of the Director is providing leadership and expertise in monitoring and improving production process performance, continuous improvement projects, process validation, sterilization and cleaning validation, change implementation, deviation investigations and CAPA implementation among other related duties.

We seek someone that values diversity and inclusion for the Director of technical operations role.
** GENERAL PROFILE:
*** Builds talent by coaching and developing the members of the Technical Operations team to ensure  appropriate breadth, depth and skill sets across the team to maintain and drive the business forward. Provides/solicits regular feedback from team and colleagues. Develops technical/professional staff through coaching, assignment selection and associated training.
* Responsible for building/growing the organization’s functional excellence. Recruit and direct engineers and scientists as necessary. Develops technical/professional staff through mentoring, assignment selection and training.
* Manages team resources and prioritizes as aligned with business needs to include run the business support, project support, and continuous improvement activities – e.g. improve safety/compliance, reduce cost and increase consistency and efficiency.
* Provides leadership on schedule, priorities, and issue resolution to aid the team in accomplishing business objectives.
* Adapts and implements departmental plans and priorities based on-site and End-to-End scorecard to address local business, service and operational challenges.
* Collaborates and engages with multiple functional organizations such as Operations, Technology, Quality, Automation, Global Engineering Services, Procurement, Finance, Above Site Technology, Regulatory, among others, to develop and maintain processes that meet cGMP and business requirements.
* Provides technical guidance to staff, colleagues or customers as well as anticipates and interprets the customer needs to identify solutions. Includes approval of technical documentation including investigations, protocols, qualification, validation etc. as required. Responsible for presenting technical discussions to regulatory agencies during inspections.
* Adapts technical support model to address resource and operational challenges and evolving business needs.
* Responsible for the performance and results of the overall…