Operations Director, Changzhou Site

• Lead the safety, health, and environmental effort to achieve expected results, ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements, and maintain good government relationships in ChangZhou.
• Ensure customer expectations are exceeded with the highest quality products and services.
• Encourage team members to participate in CI (Continuous Improvement) Events. Participate with site Engineering in the establishment of processes, lay-out and work instructions to maximize safety, quality and throughput of products; ensure productivity improvement year over year through development of stable operations and the elimination of non-value added work
• Provide leadership to drive the plant's GMP and maintenance processes, ensuring the goals are met.
• Provide leadership for manufacturing areas; assures that product quality standards are met on a consistent basis; utilizes quality tools in the manufacturing areas to assure quality standards at each processing station; challenges all supervision and team members for quality improvement suggestions in Improvement Events; assures customer quality expectations are met and exceeded
• Effectively manage teams on the site to continue to improve performance
• Identify and develop talents within the organization to ensure depth of talents and succession plan
• Manage all spending and control at or below budget levels.
• Promote a positive work environment, employee relations
• Ensure staffing and training is maintained to support excellent service to the customer.
• Develop and maintain systems for continuous improvement in all processes, utilizing tools such as 6 Sigma & lean, operations excellence etc. to achieve the site focus KPI

• Bachelor's degree or above in Chemical Engineering / Chemistry or a related field.
• 10+ years manufacturing experience in related manufacturing environment, with at least 5 years in a management role.
• Successful track record of achieving plant operational goals.
• Business knowledge of production, budget, asset and cost structure management.
• Stakeholder management
• Good at Government relations with domestic background to deal with authority directly.
• Fluent written and spoken English & Chinese.
• Experience supporting and implementing organization development and human resources initiatives.
• Experience driving and supporting innovative manufacturing and maintenance systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding, and implementation of process improvement methodologies, including stable operations and / or similar process improvement protocols.

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