Technical Operations Director
Millipore Corporation

Job Info

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A career with EMD Electronics is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 58,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others. EMD Electronics is a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

Your Role:

The Technical Operations Director is a critical, high profile position reporting directly to the Executive Director of the ISC (Integrated Supply Chain). Strong leadership provided facilitates more informed recommendations and decisions about the strategic direction of ISC operating base. You will own the creation, documentation and functional alignment of site master plans to the product capability roadmaps in support of the business field strategy. As the leader for upfront scoping and program management of complex, cross-functional activities that impact current and future facilities and capabilities of the ISC, the incumbent interfaces with Technology, Supply Excellence, Engineering, and Execution.

You will interface with marketing leads and product managers to understand the business intent on requested additions or improvements to business field capabilities. The Technical Operations Director translates business requirements and strategic initiatives into detailed site assets, fulfillment processes, and capabilities via a Site Master Plan. You will analyze requirement gaps and create development plans based on real options. The Technical Operations Director coordinates scope development of options with members of ISC, Sourcing, Supply Excellence, Engineering, Technology, scaleup, quality, and analytical teams to recommend optimized solutions. It is the expectation that this role will evaluate viable options and recommend one that achieves the desired balance between low cost to serve, required flexibility, and customer satisfaction to enable the business to meet its profit and growth targets. Options that minimize asset investment are preferred. However, when new or improved asset capital investments are needed, you will be the primary ISC contact to engineering resources or site-based project engineers. For newly created assets, fulfillment processes, or operational capabilities the incumbent will act as the program manager to ensure a successful transition into the operating environment.

Additionally, the business field operates a returnable fleet model. These returnable containers are integral parts of the safe transportation of materials consumed by the business field customers. Very often the customers integrate these containers into their onsite or on tool delivery solution, making the reliability, quality and performance of these containers critical to the success of the business field service to the customer. Therefore, the Technical Operations Director will also have responsibility for container fleet engineering design and ensuing support. This responsibility will include working with suppliers of container parts and services toward a high quality and high repeatability product, working with our technology and operations teams to demonstrate and test container capabilities consistently across our ISC network, and supporting the failure analysis and continuous improvement of the container fleet.

In addition, you will support optimization of capacity utilization, productivity plans, and targets. In this role, you will contribute to Multi-Generational (rolling forward 3 yr view) Productivity Plans.

You will promote and nurture the development of a Continuous Improvement culture built around the principles of Lean Six Sigma.

A skilled and accomplished Technical Operations Director has future career options such as operating site management, fulfillment function leadership, and insight into market facing opportunities.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. or higher technical degree, preferably in an Engineering discipline
• Experience in a leadership position managing a team of professionals
• 10+ years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Business/Financial acumen to support financial modeling; MBA, a strong plus
• Lean/Sigma certification is a plus
• Ability to analyze complicated data sets and maintain data integrity.
• Strong collaborator, self-starter with interpersonal and communication skills, especially across a matrix and global organization.
• Solid program management skills with a disciplined approach; proven ability to influence and motivate team members from various support groups.
• Understands the inherent EH&S and process safety risks of our systems and engages expertise to minimize company risk
• Broad understanding of the semiconductor materials business and technology - products, customers, applications
• Understanding of the capabilities and interactions between facets of the integrated supply chain in specialty chemical production systems
• Focus on customer satisfaction with sensitivity to Quality requirements

What we offer: With us, there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions, and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life!

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The Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, transgender status, marital status, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and programs relating to recruitment and hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Any applicant or employee who believes they have been discriminated against by the Company or anyone acting on behalf of the Company must report any concerns to their Human Resources Business Partner, Legal, or Compliance immediately. The Company will not retaliate against any individual because they made a good faith report of discrimination.

Job Requisition ID: 224080

Location: Allentown

Career Level: E - Professional (10+ years)

Working time model: full-time

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