Provide overall leadership and oversight for production scheduling, incoming quality control, manufacturing operations, quality assurance, engineering, maintenance, equipment validation, training, non-conformance investigations, laboratory testing coordination, and product release activities. Develop, monitor, and utilize key performance indicators to evaluate manufacturing performance and identify opportunities to improve product quality, deviation rates, scrap, labor utilization, regulatory compliance, throughput, and product yield, while reducing bottlenecks and work-in-process and optimizing resource allocation.