Associate Director leading packaging development for small molecule products, collaborating across CMC areas and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Responsible for defining and executing overall packaging strategies.
About the role
- Leading manufacturing planning and optimizing processes in an industrial engineering team at a hybrid workplace. Requires engineering background and project management experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead manufacturing planning
- Define work operations, sequences and equipment
- Document manufacturing processes, including machine setup data
- Create and maintain routings and material master data in SAP
- Review and optimize technical documentation for practical feasibility
- Assess manufacturability and determine manufacturing methods
- Plan types and quantities of complex tooling with multiple functions/stages
- Initiate production and procurement, coordinate design-related aspects
- Develop capacity and utilization plans
- Prepare schedules (in-house and external production) and perform target/actual comparisons
- Develop and support quality-assurance initiatives
- Independently carry out new production planning considering new or modified processes based on ergonomic and economic findings, possibly involving other business units
- Investment planning and ROI forecasting
- Conduct value stream analyses
- Monitor and optimize the efficiency of machines and systems, including associated investment estimates
- Lead the team both technically and disciplinarily – from resource planning to employee development
- Independently and continuously optimize and further develop own area of responsibility and related processes
Requirements
- Degree in engineering (Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics) or comparable qualification
- Several years of relevant professional experience
- Experience in project management, Continuous Improvement Process (CIP), and shopfloor management
- Experience in industrializing new products and processes
- Excellent written and verbal German and English skills
- Proficient in MS Office applications
- Solid knowledge of sheet metal processing
- Strong knowledge of SAP, Lean, Kaizen, Methods-Time Measurement (MTM), 5S
- Excellent interpersonal and teamworking skills, combined with high levels of authenticity, integrity and emotional intelligence
- Strong problem-solving skills and a structured, goal-oriented and resilient working style, complemented by flexibility, commitment and organizational strength
Benefits
- Permanent employment
- Vacation and Christmas bonuses, capital-forming benefits (Vermögenswirksame Leistungen)
- 30 days of vacation
- Open corporate culture, very good working atmosphere, tailored onboarding
- Agile work environment: modern, well-equipped workspace and short decision-making paths through flat hierarchies
- Provision of required work clothing
- Option to use a company bike (JobRad)
- Corporate benefits: access to exclusive employee offers
- Additional benefits: discounted canteen prices and free water and hot beverages
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