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Job Function:

Supply Chain Manufacturing:

Job Sub Function:

Plant Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Description:

About Orthopaedics

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as De Puy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of De Puy Synthes and your employment would be governed by De Puy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by De Puy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

De Puy Synthes Supply Chain is recruiting for a SENIOR OPERATIONS MANAGER.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads all aspects of manufacturing operations linked to standard commercialised products and patient specific make to order products, at the Depuy Synthes Leeds site.

• Responsible for achieving excellence in customer service, ensuring right first-time quality, accurate production planning, supply issue resolution and meeting the manufacturing schedule.

• Drives excellence in patient specific product design, manufacturing and delivery, with end to end responsibility for customer liaison, design, engineering, manufacturing and shipment.

• Leads the Operational Leadership Team including EHS, Quality, Production, Engineering, Plan, Finance and Human Resources. Aligning and prioritising goals, objectives and strategy.

• Ensures all compliance requirements are met, resolving any business issues related to Quality and EHS with leadership.

• Develops, co-ordinates and drives an operational vision for the business unit, focused on continuously improving performance, technology utilisation and cost competitiveness.

• Initiates, supports, and implements innovative projects and solutions to improve the capabilities of the production unit. Develops strategies and builds support for change.

• Plans and facilitates the site's operational and capital budgets. Initiates effective cost control practices and delivers to CIP targets.

• Coaches, mentors and provides development opportunities to all employees in the manufacturing function, building highly capable teams, developing skills and expertise.

• Represents the business with external regulatory officials (HSE, Local Council, Quality auditors) as required. Ensures manufacturing readiness for compliance audits.

• Responsible and accountable for manufacturing operations EHS performance, communicate expectations and provide sufficient resource required to achieve these standards.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors or Masters Degree or equivalent

• Requires 10 or more years related operational experience

• Experienced People Leader, leading developing individuals, teams and departments

• Strategic Leader, strong people management skills and acts as a profound change agent.

• High degree of inventiveness and resourcefulness required to ensure deadlines achieved, standards maintained, and the team remains motivated and functions with high efficiency.

• Resilience to take care of challenges, changes and unexpected setbacks in a positive way

• Excellent communication, both verbally and in writing.

Preferred Knowledge and Key Competences

• Experienced in Project Management

• Knowledge of Lean Methodologies, preferably certified Green or Black Belt

• High level of original and independent thinking, often under time pressure

• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities and able to take care of complexity

• Quality oriented, pro-active improvement of quality requirements and standards

• Build and maintain solid and positive relationships both internally and externally

Don't miss this exceptional opportunity to join a world-class company and make a lasting impact. Apply now and be part of our ambitious team!

Onsite

Required Skills:

Change Management, People Management, Product Manufacturing

Preferred Skills: