What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Operations position at Freudenberg Medical?
Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.
At Freudenberg Medical, we make products that save and improve the lives of people every day, all around the world. We are a global provider for medical device design and manufacturing with more than 2,500 employees. Innovation is at the core of our company, and we are proud of our industry-leading quality, lean manufacturing, and focus on innovation in products and processing technologies. Freudenberg Medical is an exciting place to work with lots of opportunity to learn, develop, and grow your career. Come join us and together we can make a difference in the future of healthcare.
Some of your Benefits
Performance Related Bonus: When you have an impact, you can reap the rewards.
Diversity & Inclusion: We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.
Safe Environment: We strive to ensure safety remains a top priority, and provide a stable environment for our employees.
Corporate Events: We celebrate success as a team, because only together can we achieve our goals.
On-site Medical Service: Our on-site medical service can handle a variety of medical needs.
Jeffersonville, IN
On-Site
Freudenberg Medical LLC
You support our team as
Director of Operations
Responsibilities
At Freudenberg Medical, we make products that save and improve the lives of people every day, all around the world. We are a global provider for medical device design and manufacturing with more than 2,500 employees. Innovation is at the core of our company, and we are proud of our industry-leading quality, lean manufacturing, and focus on innovation in products and processing technologies. Freudenberg Medical is an exciting place to work with lots of opportunity to learn, develop, and grow your career. Come join us and together we can make a difference in the future of healthcare.
Some of your Benefits
Performance Related Bonus: When you have an impact, you can reap the rewards.
Diversity & Inclusion: We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.
Safe Environment: We strive to ensure safety remains a top priority, and provide a stable environment for our employees.
Corporate Events: We celebrate success as a team, because only together can we achieve our goals.
On-site Medical Service: Our on-site medical service can handle a variety of medical needs.
Jeffersonville, IN
On-Site
Freudenberg Medical LLC
You support our team as
Director of Operations
Responsibilities
- Responsible for planning production operations and efficiencies by establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products.
- Support the GROWTTH program through mentoring and through the execution of lean projects.
- Develops or revises standard operational and working practices by applying lean methodology and tools. Ensures team compliance with standards.
- Ensures plant staff enforces Company policies and procedures, plant wide safety rules and employee rules of conduct.
- Responsible for developing people; improving processes; reducing costs; quality monitoring and improvements; superior customer service; and on-time delivery.
- Reviews activity reports and financial statements to determine progress and status in attaining objectives and revises objectives and plans in accordance with current conditions.
- Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, terminating, disciplining and coaching employees.
- Able to motivate employees to achieve results. Must be an effective communicator, capable of teaching and generating results while enhancing the Freudenberg Medical work environment and supporting the company philosophy.
- Responsible for documented completion of training for staff/employees per current company procedures.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, or related field, Master's degree desirable
- Minimum 10 years of manufacturing management experience or equivalent (medical device preferred).
- Initiative and strong leadership skills to coach and develop a customer focused manufacturing team at all levels.
- Drives team with performance metrics/KPI’s in accordance to business strategies and goals.
- Understanding and application of lean principles.
- Well-rounded technical experience in medical product development and manufacturing disciplines.
- FDA Quality System Regulation, ISO 13485 and design control experience preferred.
- Experience using SAP ERP software.
- Technical ability and acumen.
- Accurate attention to detail.
- Ability to work with limited supervision and lead a cross functional team.
