Senior Director - Operations

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety, and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper—everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improving product quality, minimizing emissions and waste, and safeguarding health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

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The Senior Director of Operations will have full accountability for aligning strategic priorities to drive performance at Pall’s Cortland site. This leader will oversee approximately 400 associates and drive transformation and operational excellence across a unionized, highly regulated operation that supports all four Pall businesses and manufactures proprietary, market-differentiating technologies. With full P&L accountability and responsibility for safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, and working-capital objectives, the Senior Director of Operations will lead a diverse, cross-functional management team spanning Value Streams/Production, Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS&S), Facilities and Maintenance, and Continuous Improvement/DBS.

The successful candidate will support the development of Pall’s overall operations strategy and priorities while balancing the needs of multiple Pall businesses. This leader will be expected to develop and continually refine organizational capability, allocate resources effectively, and drive sustained continuous improvement and transformation across the operation.

This position reports to the VP Operations North America and Energy+ and is part of the Operations team located in Cortland NY. This is an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Drive activities intended to position the site and the broader N.A. Operations organization to successfully respond to increased demand from the global semiconductor industry while maintaining a focus on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity through effective use of Danaher Business System (DBS) tools including but not limited to the efficient execution of Daily Management and KPI action plan development.
• Build a Winning Team that is prepared to meet the exceptionally high product complexity demands required to manufacture foundational Pall technologies using proprietary processes in the following key market sectors: nuclear products, gas filtration, semiconductors, and other highly regulated industries.
• Proactively negotiate with business leaders both internal and external to Pall to establish realistic delivery expectation and prioritize the development of talent and the creation of agile people processes that enable the site to dynamically allocate resources to meet shifting demands in a fast-changing environment.
• Promote, lead and coach others in the use of DBS tools and lean concepts to improve manufacturability, productivity, yields, cost, process variation, and customer quality in a cost-effective manner with a critical eye toward sustainability and continuous improvement.
• Focus on bringing the strategy to life for the site leadership team and empowering the team and cross-organizational partners to closely manage headcount and overtime and manage operating expenses, and fiscal budgets set by the broader organization.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of manufacturing people leadership experience. A Masters’ degree and/or formal certifications in areas related to manufacturing operations are preferred with proven experience in site transformation to high performing organization/culture.
• Experience with successful implementation of Continuous Improvement and Lean Manufacturing programs, principles and practices, and the ability to demonstrate a strong understanding of CI tools and techniques in successfully sustaining results. Formal Lean and CI certifications are preferred.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of the inter-relationship between manufacturing, production planning, SIOP/S&OP, engineering, inventory/materials management, quality and regulatory affairs programs and purchasing.
• Demonstrates safety leadership knowledge, team building skills and the ability to demonstrate how you have developed and sustained a safety culture that achieved outstanding outcomes and yielded measurable safety performance improvements.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and people skills, sensitivity to cultural differences, with a demonstrated ability to maintain and improve upon strong relationships with union leadership in a manufacturing operations setting.
• Strong financial background with the ability to speak with clarity on how operational decisions articulate in the financial outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience with the ability to highlight successful development of talent to ensure the talent availability and strong succession readiness across key roles.

Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 20% globally per business needs

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Pall, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

The annual salary range for this role is $220,000 - $250,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and Retirement Benefits to eligible employees. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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