Manufacturing Lead

POSITION SUMMARY

The incumbent is responsible for leading, managing and overseeing Manufacturing at the Melbourne & Wellington sites. Achieves operational goals including productivity, quality, cost, delivery, safety and colleague engagement requirements while maintaining strict adherence to relevant regulatory, corporate, other government and local regulations. Ensures the proper operational controls, metrics, procedures, and personnel are in place to effectively grow the organization for financial and operational efficiencies.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists Site Leader in creating the three to five-year vision and pipeline of activities to grow the organization.
• Staff, train, manage, develop and provide leadership to department managers/supervisors in Manufacturing in the application of practical operations planning and control techniques toward higher levels of performance while providing an environment that encourages change and teamwork.
• Sets performance objectives for the manufacturing organization that focuses on short-term, as well as long-term business objectives.
• Reviews staffing requirements, personnel allocations, and organizational structure to not only meet today’s requirements, but those of future growth.
• Initiates capital requirements for all manufacturing areas and ensures on time delivery and cost of the project.
• Understands and educates staff on balancing personnel needs and process improvements with managing budgetary expenses to meet overall financial targets. Develop and implement capacity plan across all teams to assure that sales goals are supported.
• Ensures production goals are achieved including productivity, quality, cost, delivery, safety and morale requirements
• Develop and achieve annual and quarterly operating budgets to meet company objectives with risk mitigation plans in place.
• Responsible for year on year standard time reductions through continuous and quality improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate and implement meaningful metrics within Manufacturing and actively contributes to other cross-functions that impact the manufacturing team.
• Ability to create cost models for projects that clearly reflect return on in investment and financial impact for cost improvement projects.
• Ensure strict adherence to relevant regulatory, other government and local regulations.
• Assess efficacy of processes, align with standard operating procedures and apply enhancements.
• Continuously evaluates performance through metric reviews and adjusts as required to meet goals.
• Facilitate cross-functional relationships with all enabling functions & stakeholders including but not limited to GMT, Finance, Procurement, HR and OpEx.
• Represent manufacturing on cross-functional site committees such as Validation, Change Control, Quality Review, EHS, Emergency Planning, Technical and Product recall among others.
• Be assigned as the Production Authority on the APVMA Licence to Manufacture Vet Products
• In conjunction with the Site Leader, be mutually accountable for Quality and Volume performance at the Melbourne and Wellington sites
• Act as the Senior company representative in relation to site production issues
• Provide leadership to the managers to fully achieve each of the Zoetis Core Beliefs and Site objectives
• 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
• Partner with GMT for successful transfer of new product into Manufacturing
• Other duties as assigned