Director - Manufacturing

Position Summary

The Manufacturing Director provides leadership to the Manufacturing Team and coordinates the teams to achieve safety, quality, performance, and financial objectives as well as drive continuous improvement. This position partners with all members of the Site Leadership Team to support or gain support to meet site initiatives.

Position Responsibilities

• Work with Site Leadership to determine Team goals and objectives as a component of the Site plan; develop specific actions to meet goals.
• Direct respective teams for the Zoetis Charles City site to ensure production of efficacious, safe, and high quality products. Responsible for all elements of the process (e.g., budget, metrics, compliance).
• Provide leadership to the Managers to fully achieve each of the Zoetis Core Beliefs and Site Objectives.
• Provide direction, leadership, and accountability for the manufacturing operation to achieve production schedule and financial plan adherence, and product availability to our customers 100% of the time.
• Lead Gemba walks to "own the process", identifying and resolving issues that are impeding material and information flow. Promote use of Right First Time and Lean Manufacturing tools to assure the site provides a competitive advantage to the business.
• Identify, prioritize, and champion improvement projects to implement line and changeover improvements, reduction of process variability, and waste elimination.
• Ensure high standards of product quality are achieved in accordance with Zoetis Quality Standards and policies and in compliance with appropriate regulations and standards (e.g., USDA, VMD, EPA, OSHA, as well as corporate operational standards).
• Ensure that production facilities are operated in a safe, environmentally acceptable manner, and that all employees are properly trained.
• Partner with GMT for successful transfer of new products into Manufacturing.
• Promote and achieve an environment of high colleague engagement, decision-making, and support/development.
• Lead Green Belt/Black Belt Initiatives and engage colleagues to lead Green Belt initiatives within Manufacturing.
• Carry out long-term planning for Manufacturing (e.g. capital planning, resource planning, long-range capacity planning, new products, etc.) that are consistent with strategic goals of the company.

Education and Experience

BA/BS with 20+ years relevant experience OR MBA/MS with 18+ years relevant experience.

Technical Skills Requirements

• Prior experience managing in a biological and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, with increasing levels of leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated creativity and proven capability to effectively lead and develop others, optimize team and organizational performance, execute strategic and operational plans, lead and manage change, deal with ambiguity, analyze complex issues resulting in appropriate & timely decisions, and promote innovation.
• Demonstrated ability to drive Transformation and Continuous Improvement throughout the organization.
• Strong commitment to Product Quality, Customer Supply and Operational Excellence.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Green Belt Certification.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate diverse groups to meet network, site, and departmental objectives.
• Demonstrated successful coaching and development of colleagues, including effective performance management.
• Demonstrated commitment to the Zoetis Values and leadership competencies.
• Demonstrated ability to interact positively with senior management and related groups (i.e. Supply Chain & Logistics, VMRD, HR, QO, etc.).
• Demonstrated successful interactions with domestic and international Regulatory authorities, such as USDA, VMD, EPA, OSHA, etc.

Physical Position Requirements

• Able to become qualified to enter clean room environments.
• Physical Demands Include: Sitting, Writing, Typing, Talking, Hearing, Seeing, Lifting.
• Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in environments with extreme temperature (hot /cold) & humidity, with limited lighting and in crowded spaces. The noise of these work environments are typical office noises.

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.