Vice President of Operations/Senior Director of Operations

Company Background

Medisurge, LLC is the contract manufacturing subsidiary within the Alliant Family of Companies. We offer a challenging, fast-paced, rapid-growth environment in a company with a culture where values come first. Medisurge is experiencing active growth with planned exponential growth in the coming years. We serve the cardiovascular, orthopedic, implants, wound care, and temperature management medical and biotechnology device markets. The company is ISO 13485:2016 certified and has two class 7 cleanrooms, with plans to add additional cleanrooms. Simultaneously, Medisurge is aggressively moving toward state-of-the-art advanced medical grade manufacturing combined with lean manufacturing, the use of 3D printing, CNC machining, and advanced clean room infrastructure. Medisurge is proud of our incredible, industry-leading quality performance metrics. In 2022, Medisurge began implementing the innovative Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) throughout the entire company. In doing so, the company will further increase traction, accountability, communication, team health, and results, by keeping us mindful, focused, disciplined, and accountable for ourselves and those we are leading. In turn, this will ensure we will stay on the path to excellence in our industry and help those around us thrive.

Position Purpose

This is an opportunity to create a world-class medical device contract manufacturer. This position leads our rapidly expanding Medisurge medical device manufacturing activities. This is a hands-on role, with responsibility not only for continuous improvement of day-to-day operations, including working hand-in-hand with our quality and regulatory Teams, but as a key contributor in strategic initiatives including new product introductions, and merger and acquisition support. Medisurge needs a self-directed leader who is energized by the opportunity to take the reins of our operations and be a key contributor to the success of our business. Need the ability to create operational vision, growth strategy, visual management, and ability to re-evaluate current operations for efficiency improvements.

Essential Job Functions

Lead all aspects of operations by directing and coordinating activities consistent with established goals, objectives, and policies.
Lead day-to-day manufacturing operations to ensure customer satisfaction (internal and external), attain financial and production objectives, and guide continuous improvement initiatives.
Contribute toward policy recommendations, and strategic initiatives such as supply chain rationalization, new product introductions, and merger and acquisition support.
Understand and implement the vision of the COO. This vision includes adopting lean manufacturing throughout the operations, implementing collaborative robots, and establishing a new 3D printing production cell. Medisurge will be a leader in “Advanced Manufacturing” in the medical device space.
The goal will be to drive growth through advanced capabilities, lower manufacturing costs, and superior performance in customer response and delivery.
Establish and manage budgets, standards, and overall financial performance objectives. Achieve targeted current manufacturing, and new organic and new product introduction (NPI) sales and profit goals.
Foster a collaborative, team environment that is people-oriented.
This candidate will be someone willing to work side-by-side with the engineering team and operators in the cleanroom to support continuous improvement and new program launches.
Ensure the implementation of the company’s Core Values, Core Focus, V/TO, Quality, goals, and support systems.
Expect that rewards will also be part of the equation. As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), this position will be eligible for a bonus program called Pathway

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field is required. Five to ten-plus years of operational management/leadership in medical device manufacturing.
Demonstrated examples of great leadership, drive, determination, high values, creativity and strong problem-solving skills.
Ability to effectively work with peers to hold each other accountable and help foster an outstanding work environment.
Demonstrated examples of creating, maintaining, and managing budgets, standards, and overall financial performance objectives.

Skills

Proven leadership and manager/coach skills.
Lean manufacturing expertise.
Engineering, manufacturing cost accounting, supply chain management, and quality system experience in the medical industry.
Ability to work in a self-directed, rapidly changing, small- to mid-sized company.
Creativity to help solve customer and manufacturing problems and resolve conflicts.
Energetic and excited about growing a company and increasing market share and profitability.
Sound understanding of business financial management, with budget planning/management and delivering needed financial outcomes.
Excellent communication skills from the shop floor to executive and customer audiences.

Solid track record of past performance regarding the following traits:

o Effective Communication Skills: A great leader should be able to effectively communicate across multiple channels, including personal interactions, voice calls, email, and the various messaging platforms.
o Honest to self and to others: They must convey information accurately, represent their plans and decisions clearly, and provide their teams with all the information they need to do their best work. Leaving out essential information or sticking too closely to a stringent “need to know” policy can be incredibly frustrating for employees and will not inspire confidence.
o Great leaders need to be able to interpret how employees/colleagues feel without directly asking: You need to know how to read between to understand your team members’ feelings to fully grasp their motivations, goals, and hopes for their work. Awareness is also valuable in terms of diagnosing issues with business practices. If you are not aware of a problem, you cannot hope to appropriately address it.
o The ability to understand other people: listen to understand and dig in without micromanaging. It is important for a great leader to empathize with your employees, understand what they do on a day-to-day basis and try to relate them on personal and professional levels.
o Accountability and Professional Responsibility: A great leader knows how to take responsibility for major decisions and the fallout from poor ones. Bad leaders “pass the buck” and typically attempt to cast blame for failed projects, mistimed campaigns, and other mistakes on their managers and employees. Leaders who do these things lose employee trust and loyalty very quickly. Be firm but fair and own it.
o Optimism and a Forward-Thinking Attitude: It is the leader’s job to inspire this feeling of purpose. Leaders should look at missteps, problems (treasures), and tough times as opportunities. When leaders maintain their optimistic outlooks and maintains forward-thinking with an organization, it inspires employees to put their best work forward.
o Fostering Creativity in Employees: A great leader should know how to recognize creativity and acknowledge employees who display creative thinking. The best leaders are the ones that empower their teams to deliver remarkable results during these times.
o The Ability to Promote Teamwork: It is the leader’s job to delegate tasks (assignments) to the most appropriately to execute, utilizing the strengths of each individual member.
o Great Leaders make business-critical decisions with confidence: A leader who can make a calculated decision with confidence and stick by that decision as the consequences of it unfold. Employees look to their leaders to know what they are doing and how to make the best out of uncertain situations.
o A disorganized leader does not inspire confidence: Great leaders should be able to multitask effectively and keep their materials, projects, team members, and ideas organized. It is the leader’s job to set the standard of organization for a company.

Physical

This position requires moderate amounts of walking, standing, bending, kneeling, stooping, pushing, pulling, reaching, lifting, and twisting.
Employee may be required to exert up to 50 pounds of force.
Some travel will be required.

Apply

Send cover letter and resume to: Brian Kimble, bkimble@allianthealthcare.com