At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Director of Operations will act as site leader to direct and control the operations giving strategic guidance and direction to ensure business objectives are met. This role is responsible for all areas of manufacturing to produce products and direct activities so that approved products are manufactured on schedule. Ensures that all products are produced on time, as cost efficiently as possible, and meet the high-quality standards of STERIS. In addition, ensures that the production technology is maintained and developed to support the technological market leadership.

What you will do

• Develop the manufacturing plan and establish procedures to maintaining high standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that products conform to established customer and company quality standards.
• Promote a safety culture through training of individuals on procedures, expectations, and leading investigations of near misses and other incidents, sitewide. Drive safety awareness through training staff on all safety processes and procedures
• Develop the annual business plan in support of corporate objectives and monitor performance against plan, taking corrective actions to ensure all business objectives are met.
• Prepare and manage site budget and expenditures.
• Direct and monitor all St. Louis, MO operations relating to the manufacturing, materials, facilities, and maintenance.
• Champions and demonstrates commitment through executing and auditing current state processes; seeking opportunities for improvements and driving Continuous Improvement solutions and problem-solving methodology to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.
• Develop, implement, and manage planning that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning and scheduling, inventory, material, and cost elements to optimize inventory levels that allow for lean manufacturing.
• Maintains responsibility for hiring and retaining a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides growth, training, and development opportunities to employees. Ensures all performance management activities are executed in a timely manner
• Balances the needs of the business and employees, coordinates, and manages performance reviews, recruitment/hiring, salary adjustments, work schedules and conflict resolution/employee relations.
• Identify, recommend, and implement changes to improve productivity and reduce cost and scrap, monitor scrap and rework data. Direct and coordinate various programs essential to manufacturing procedures (e.g., training, safety, housekeeping, cost reduction, worker involvement, security, etc.).
• Oversee management of and drive continuous improvement activities through the development of lean tools with support from the Corporate Lean Enterprise team. Create a lean culture through effective management while striving for year over year improvements in KPIs.
• Responsible for designing and implementing company processes for order entry, procurement, inventory control, production planning, manufacture, test, and ship.
• Establish and monitor metrics and measurements of quality, reliability, on-time shipments, inventory, customer satisfaction, and financial goals.
• Partner with Quality & Regulatory department to maintain good manufacturing process in accordance with FDA guidelines, ISO9001, and ISO 13485
• Promotes Quality conscious leadership through proper adherence to quality system procedures, Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

What you will need to be successful

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• Bachelor’s Degree in business management, operations, materials management field or Engineering required.
• Minimum 10+ years of operations experience in a dynamic, high growth environment.
• Minimum 7+ years of progressive leadership experience.
• Medical Device or Regulatory Industry experience preferred.
• Experience with manufacturing high-tech products such as electronics and software.
• 5+ lean manufacturing experience and knowledge required.
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word), Oracle
• Strong Communication Skills (Written and spoken)

15% travel

What we offer

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing:

• Competitive pay
• Annual merit bonus and incentive plans
• Medical, vision, prescription, dental and life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Paid vacation time and paid holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Opportunities for advancement

Join us and help write our next chapter.

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Our Healthcare Customers are federally mandated (by Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services or CMS) requiring vendors to have the COVID-19 vaccination or an approved exemption. There are select Customers who do not accept any exceptions. Unvaccinated Associates may be excluded from working at a Customer site, require routine testing with an approved exemption (if accepted by the Customer) or have limited Customer access impacting their ability to remain employed. Additionally, we may be required to meet state mandates on COVID-19 vaccination, exemptions and/or booster requirements. This position is a Customer-facing role that falls under a state or CMS mandate.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.