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Shanghai, CN

Plant Manager-Minhang Ethicon Plant-0000095V

Description

1 Principal Duties and Responsibilities (General summary, essential functions and authorities, etc.)

Directs activities of medical device manufacturing plant to include oversight for production, engineering, maintenance, labor relations, process excellence and regulatory compliance. Partners with and drives supporting functions to include quality assurance, human resources, finance, planning, as well as safety and environmental to ensure execution, compliance, and proper reporting.

1.1 STRATEGY
- Participate in formulating and executing operations-wide strategies and objectives. Takes the lead in developing plant manufacturing strategies and objectives.
- Drive strategic projects to optimize supply chain and product and process quality and to reduce costs and move the organization to a world-class benchmark.

1.2 EXECUTION
- Develop, monitor and effectively utilise dashboards, control charts and operational indicators and take action to correct those situations which are not in line with established controls or targets.
- Effectively manage and resource human, material, and capital resources to meet quality, customer service, financial, EH&S, and product and process improvement targets.
- Ensure supply of manufactured products in line with demand plan and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate across/with other Ethicon plants, other MD&D plant/organizations.

1.3 QUALITY
- Work diligently to significantly reduce all forms of critical defects and as part of a wider integrated product recall prevention plan strive to completely eliminate "field-issues" on a permanent basis.
- Develop and sustain a culture of waste reduction and, in conjunction with the above and first pass rolled throughput yield remediation, effect an ongoing and sustained improvement in product and process quality.

1.4 COMPLIANCE

- Ensure the Quality System is regularly audited/reviewed and that appropriate preventive and corrective actions are identified and executed to improve quality results.
- Ensure fulfillment of all safety, industrial hygiene, environmental and labor regulatory requirements.

1.5 FINANCIAL

- Develop and successfully monitor the plant to meet or exceed the agreed business plan.
- Drive identification and successfully implement cost improvement projects (CIP's).
- Fulfill all business plan financial, cash flow, and other obligations.
- Develop the Operations budget in coordination with business partners.

1.6 ORGANIZATIONAL

- Personally use Six Sigma and Lean tools effectively and create a culture that ensures all levels of management are effectively using these tools along with credible and simple metrics to significantly improve business results.
- Recommend and implement employee development programs to raise the associate's capabilities. Develop solid succession plans that have "ready now" associates for all direct reports and other key positions.
- Create a compelling work environment in which every associate is valued and recognized for their contribution to our success

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- Build and continue to develop a strong, solid, cohesive extended operations leadership team. Aligned, inclusive and confident in openly challenging the leader and each other.

1.7 ENGINEERING

- Effectively manage the Engineering function to simplify routings, significantly improve process capability, reliability and consistency to develop global production processes and equipment designs and to significantly reduce the product standard cost base.
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Qualifications


1.1 Education and/or Experience
- BA/BS or equivalent. Prefer engineering or technical degree.
- 8 or more years previous experience in Operations to include six years of direct, hands-on production management. Experience in engineering, logistics and/or other related operations functions is preferred.

- Prefer Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification or equivalent. If not certified, at a minimum, must have proven, first-hand experience in effectively utilizing control charts.
- Requires practical, first-hand experience in successfully applying Lean tools such as JIT, 5S, Kaizen, and Value Stream Mapping to create value improvement gains.

- Experience in using US cost accounting methods, variance reporting and budgeting. Balance sheet, cash flow, and investment analysis skills (cost/benefit) required.

- Prefer prior experience in medical device manufacturing with knowledge of ISO and FDA requirements.

1.2 Other Skills and Abilities Required

- Language: fluent in English & Chinese.
- Ability to initiate and manage change as well as build effective teams across manufacturing and support areas.
- Capable to work in a global environment, with global mindset.
- Proven project management skills.
- High Level of Personal Initiative.
- Ability to master complexity and ambiguity in a dynamic environment.
- Interdependent Partnering/Collaboration.
- Results driven and decisive, proactive, responsive.
- Ability to create, communicate and deploy vision, strategies, and goals for the organization.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Ability to recruit and develop high performers and value diversity.

Primary Location:Asia Pacific-China-Shanghai-Shanghai
Organization: Johnson & Johnson Medical Shanghai Ltd. (7055)
Job Function: Engineering (Generalist)