**Position Summary** The Plant Director ** ** has the responsibility for leading all aspects of operations a multi-campus, medical device manufacturing plant including safety, production, quality, engineering, supply chain and customer service. The plant director has full P&L accountability and drives continuous improvement initiatives to ensure operational excellence, customer satisfaction and profitability.  This role ensures achievement of key business objectives by fostering a safe, high-quality, and efficient work environment while meeting regularly compliance and customer satisfaction. **Principle Responsibilities** + Foster a culture where safety, quality, schedule, and cost are prioritized with a continuous improvement mindset. + Drive rapid, significant, and sustainable improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost metrics. + Oversee daily operations of the plant, ensuring optimal safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory performance. + Develop and execute strategic plans aligned with company goals, including compliance with ISO, FDA, EPA, OSHA, and other regulatory requirements. + Lead and manage New Product Introduction (NPI) execution, ensuring on-time, on-quality, and on-cost results. + Ensure effective allocation of resources to meet customer-driven priorities and optimize operational efficiency. + Oversee financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue planning, cost control, and profitability improvement. + Identify opportunities to reduce costs in direct and indirect labor, manufacturing overhead, and inventory levels while enhancing operational efficiency. + Manage capital expenditure planning to align with company technology needs, capacity, and cash flow requirements. + Establish and review key operational metrics and performance indicators to ensure alignment with business objectives. + Drive a Lean Operating System culture (5S, SMED, TPM, etc.) and lead the roadmap for achieving breakthrough performance. + Conduct regular KPI reviews with the plant team to ensure goal attainment and prioritize implementation strategies. + Continually benchmark and implement best practices to enhance efficiency and performance. + Build, coach, and mentor a high-performance team, fostering morale and professional growth across multiple functions. + Develop leadership and management capabilities within the team to sustain long-term success. + Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, regulators, and corporate teams. + Collaborate with sales, marketing, engineering, and other functional teams to deliver exceptional products and customer satisfaction. **Qualification Requirements** + Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related field. MBA preferred. + 8+ years manufacturing operations leadership experience  + Demonstrated track record of significant performance improvement through the successful development of a lean culture, and implementation of the tools.  + Demonstrates implementation and/or ongoing development of a lean operating culture forms the basis for development of a sustainable competitive advantage.   + Strong developer of people and teams, believing it a critical component in driving organizational change and effectiveness. **Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:** + Highly customer responsive and entrepreneurial + Resourceful, combining strong manufacturing and technical abilities with good overall management acumen + Strong financial acumen + Effectively deploys resources to key priorities + Has, and sets, high expectations for him/herself and the organization; driven by metrics and countermeasures  + Ability and passion to lean operating system culture + Selects great people and makes changes quickly when required + Ability to create followership and lead an organization through significant change and improvement  + Tough‐minded but a welcome team member + Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively   communicate throughout all levels of the organization + Possesses a high sense of urgency + Low‐Ego/High‐Confidence + Thinks expansively/innovatively and targets breakthrough performance, not simply incremental gain + Is highly autonomous and self‐directed + High degree of credibility to be convincing and persuasive + Medical device industry experience, a plus