Business Unit Leader - 2406198950W

Description

Ethicon, a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Business Unit Leader in Manati, PR.

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This Business Unit Leader will be responsible for leading manufacturing, maintenance, projects, and base business engineering personnel within the Ethicon WCH manufacturing operations in Puerto Rico. The main responsibility is to optimize supply chain performance, consistently meet customer expectations and manage the manufacturing operations and projects for Ethicon Wound Closure and Healing.

Essential functions and responsibilities:

o With expertise in manufacturing operations, coordinate cross-functional resources required for four key areas:

• Growth for Customers: Deliver supply reliability through Product Value Stream Management and End-to-End process improvements while ensuring proactive approach to quality, safety and compliance.

• Excellence in Execution: Reduce complexity and drive significant improvement in the predictable, reliable supply of quality products that meet / exceed customer expectations.

• Empowering and Inspiring Employees: Create a workplace where all employees feel valued and are provided opportunities for growth.

• Strategic and Innovative Thinking: Develop and implement a strategy to drive continuous improvement of manufacturing while also ensuring capacity, agility and flexibility to support development and manufacture of new products and technologies.

o Lead the WCH manufacturing, maintenance, projects and base business engineering operations and activities in both San Lorenzo and Manati sites.

o Collaborate with internal and external partners to achieve all operational goals, including but not limited to safety, quality, service, cost, and people leadership goals.

o Identify and implement both short and long-term projects to optimize the local supply chain, product, and process quality and to improve operational efficiencies.

o Effectively manage and resource human, material, and capital resources to meet quality, customer service, financial, EH&S, and product and process improvement targets.

o Ensure close collaboration with Quality Operations so that the Quality System is regularly audited/ reviewed, and that appropriate preventive and corrective actions are identified and implemented to improve quality results.

o Develop and implement a talent strategy that ensures a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment and ensures development opportunities are provided for all employees.

o Provides a leadership role in the development and implementation of Process Excellence and Six Sigma standards.

o Identifies needs and coordinate the development of support systems, i.e., Documentation, Q.A. Systems.

o Ensures sufficient manufacturing materials, equipment, and personnel.

o Provides variance analysis and corrective actions.

o Manages a customer driven quality plant that ensures regulatory compliance to ISO and GMP requirements.

o Responsible for all salary administration issues and all personnel related matters. Reviews and recommends change to current policies and procedures for applicability to present business plans.

o Provides and establishes leadership climate for operations within business unit towards continue quality improvements and compliance with regulatory requirements as they apply to all business aspects.

o Makes decisions based on understanding of multiple departments and their interrelationships.

o Fosters relations with all applicable development group/effort to actively influence design and assembly criteria.

o Manages operation to ensure achievement of CIP and OGSM initiatives.

o Manages, motivates, and develops subordinates to achieve their full potential.

o Responsible for developing and guiding all associates within their organization, including hourly associates and supervisors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Degree in Engineering or Science concentration is preferred. Master’s degree desirable.

• A minimum 10 years of experience in a Supply Chain environment is required.

• Experience in the following functional areas: manufacturing, engineering, planning, distribution and/or quality is required.

• Minimum five (5) years of supervisory experience is required.

• Ability to drive innovation, prioritize and collaborate in a heavily matrixed environment.

• Ability to influence and gain cross-functional support to deliver strategy.

• Ability to travel from the Ethicon San Lorenzo plant as needed is required.

• Bilingual, English and Spanish is required.

• Understanding of manufacturing shop floor and related computer systems is preferred.

• Strong analytical problem solving and interpersonal skills ability.

• Leadership and Negotiating skills.

• Associate relations capabilities.

• Technology management.

• Financial variance analysis.

• Customer-focused decision making.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.

Primary Location NA-US-Puerto Rico-Manatí

Organization Ethicon Endo Surgery, LLC (7597)

Relocation Eligible: No

Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time

Job Function Plant Management

Req ID: 2406198950W