Opportunities

Title: Director, Manufacturing Systems
Job Type: Fulltime/Perm
Location: Remote – EST/CST Time Zone

Onsite/Travel Requirements: Significant TRAVEL first 1-2 years aligning with on-site implementations and rollouts. 

Eligibility: This role is not open to current or future sponsorship, or C2C partnerships

Job Description

Wright Technical Services is proud to represent a global company that develops, manufactures, and distributes innovative minimally invasive medical devices for this position. The Director of Manufacturing Systems will ensure enterprise applications (eg, MES, ERP) support the needs of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, & Quality globally. Partnering closely with IT, the successful candidate will oversee the configuration and optimization of the systems required to manufacture medical devices and will identify and advocate for the additional system capabilities and integrations needed to enable client’s future manufacturing environment.

This specific role is focused on ERP. The selected candidate will own the ERP side of client’s manufacturing systems landscape and will collaborate extensively with the Director, Manufacturing Systems – MES, who leads the parallel MES-focused projects, to ensure the two systems remain aligned and integrated.

This role will initially be focused on North American-based manufacturing entities, followed by EMEA-based manufacturing entities, and finally on client’s Australia region. Significant travel will be required, based upon where the successful applicant is based.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.

• Minimum of 10 years experience in an advanced manufacturing environment, medical device field preferred.

• Significant ERP supply chain and manufacturing experience, with Oracle or SAP experience required.

• Working knowledge of supply chain planning and manufacturing processes.

• Knowledge of process and software validations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the presence and credibility to influence executive leadership in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Procurement.

• Strong computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project).

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Willingness and availability for extensive travel, including international travel, scaled to the phase of the Plan-to-Make ERP rollout.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver projects for assigned global processes, data & systems across entire lifecycle (i.e., design, build, test, deploy, sustain) on time, within budget and in accordance with scope & quality expectations.

• Drive key decisions for assigned systems, escalating when appropriate.

• Maintain awareness of how projects for assigned systems impact other systems/teams & ensure collaboration.

• Collaborate with teams on design, development, and implementation of new processes & systems required for manufacturing & supply chain.

• Evaluate system configuration or capabilities needed for compliant, efficient, and effective process development.

• Configure and prototype manufacturing processes using available technology.

• Collaborate with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Engineering to ensure the effective completion of system-related activities associated with transfer to manufacturing of priorities and objectives.

• Collaborate with the IT function to prioritize and enable new system capabilities and integrations and align across client’s manufacturing and supply chain entities.

• Provide education and training to user groups on system capabilities, standards, and best practices.

• Ability to complete projects within specific time-lines and meeting performance expectations.

• Ensure that Client’s Code of Conduct is considered in all business matters carried out on client’s behalf.

Wright Technical Services and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.