Work mode: Onsite

Onsite Location(s):Cartago, CR

• Leader passionate about creating a culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrated passion for serving patients and driving a culture of compliance and integrity.
• Proven record of focusing on people / team development and driving employee engagement.
• Demonstrated experience on building strong collaboration with key stakeholders within a multi-cultural organization.
• Strong influencing skills and inspirational leadership style.

• Passionate to collaborate with a new and growing leadership team
• Able to develop a vision for engineering in Cartago and growing technology platforms
• Work with teams to establish strategy to achieve vision

Tactical: ME Director will be accountable to build a technical team that coordinates all Equipment Engineering and MFG Eng activities for Cartago site. This includes duplication, training, improvements, validations and maintenance strategy for existing and transferred production lines, processes, equipment and test methods. ME Director will also be accountable for all activities associated with new product launches into Cartago.
Strategic: ME Director is key to develop the site culture, its delivering excellence strategy and hiring the right talent. She/he will be responsible for several financial metrics associated to existing operations, green field project and future plant execution. ME Director is responsible to build a strategy that supports technical needs and technology opportunities associated with equipment and process of existing and future products. This leader is to inspire the organization to constantly innovate, embrace new technologies and to promote standardize technology platforms through a critical thinking mindset.

• Through activities prioritization and resource leveling, ensures adequate engineering resources available to meet the business priorities as defined by the strategic plan and budget.
• Provide vision and leadership in identifying the next generation of manufacturing technology.
• Work on technology platform standardization and optimization.
• Drive continuous improvement in all processes plant wide.
• Site sponsor of the engineering essentials program
• Drives use of the Value Improvement Process (VIP) as the primary tool for Operations Cost Reduction.
• Development of necessary Manufacturing Process’s on-site ensuring optimization of layout, process flow or overall process capability.
• Identify and champion product development and functional excellence initiatives.
• Drive new product and processing technologies that are designed for manufacturability.

• Bachelor's degree plus 10 years of related work experience.
• 6-8 years of experience leading a team/organization of more than 100 team members.
• 3+ years as director
• Knowledgeable in manufacturing key processes, financial models and quality systems
• Transfers and/or start-up experience
• Building department strategies for long term
• Experience in managing large-scale, complex operations/programs/projects
• Excel in collaborative leadership
• Experience in the Medical Device Industry
• Collaborative individual with the ability to influence
• Strong Functional / Technical Knowledge.
• Mature Problem Solving and Critical Thinking skills
• English 95% to 100%

• Advanced Engineering degree
• Familiarity and experience with quality systems and methods, products, and customer needs
• Lean business/VIP experience
• Experience leading teams in a site quality setting
• Engineering or manufacturing background with ability to understand technical models.
• Knowledge on products/technologies being transferred is preferred.
• Connections with divisional stakeholder is a plus.
• Transfer Experience is a plus.
• Startup experience is a plus.
• OPEX experience is a plus.
• Other Functional knowledge is desired such as Materials, Facilities, Project management or Facilities.

• In all actions, demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.
• Assures that appropriate resources (personnel, tools, etc.) are maintained in order to assure Quality System compliance and adherence to the BSC Quality Policy.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.