Adliswil, Zurich, Switzerland
If you don‘t change it - you choose it. Leader with strong technical background, excellent analytical and strategic thinking. Catalyst for ideas and implementation thereof. Driving a high sense of urgency throughout the organization and preventing the "perfect" from denying the "better".
- Directing three specialized manufacturing areas through a team of supervisors and a senior industrial engineer, fostering a culture of accountability, safety, and high performance across the production floor. - Developing and executing a multi-year Operational Excellence (OpEx) roadmap to enhance manufacturing agility and throughput for life-changing medical products. -Establishing standardized leadership practices to align supervisory efforts with site-wide KPIs and Abbott’s strategic vision. - Overseeing budget & resource planning as well as talent development for a robust organization, ensuring cross-training and bench strength to meet fluctuating global demands.
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- Ensuring production performance while considering all economic aspects - Manufacturing unit coordination - Leading and developing a manufacturing team of up to 16 individuals inculding up to 3 shift leaders based on Roche Leadership Commitments - Consultancy assignment shopfloor management at Genmark, California - Responsible for shop floor and conflict management - Continuously improving and aligning the department with the agile organization
- Project manager for the launch of a new facility for medium distribution and a reactor for the manufacturing of an API coating solution incl. development, qualification, verification and validation (> 6 Mio CHF). - Project lead for the introduction of a new storage concept tackling safety and capacity issues - Core Team member responsible for transfer activities in line with cGMP and ISO 13485 requirements - Subject matter expert in automation projects - Subject matter expert for MES (manufacturing execution system) - Supporting of R&D-projects introducing new products, machines and processes to production - Process optimization of high quality products and equipment - Creating of process documentation and facilitating trainings related to process understanding and introduction of new systems
- Core team member (sub project manager, engineering) for the launch of a new facility for medium distribution and a reactor for the manufacturing of an API coating solution incl. development, qualification, verification and validation. - Project lead (>100 k €) for the introduction of a new storage concept tackling safety and capacity issues - Responsible for the move of a complete cleanroom - Subject matter expert in automation projects - Subject matter expert for MES (manufacturing execution system) - Supporting of R&D-projects introducing new products, machines and processes to production - Production support, trouble shooting and process optimization of high quality products and equipment - Risk assessment of production processes and implementation of mitigation controls (pFMEA) - Creating of process documentation and facilitating trainings related to process understanding and introduction of new systems - Cleanroom layout planning - Award winner of the core value "competence"
- Optimization of production processes concerning energy efficiency and production capacity. - Mentoring of the installation and ramp up of a new factory in Sierstzen (PL). - Instruction and support of the future head of production at IGP Poland. - Contact for process questions at the new factory in Sierstzen (PL). - Surveillance of production trials. - Key player acting as a link between research, development and production. - Scale-Up and transfer of expertise from development into production. - Investigation of process parameters and fundamentals applying statistical tools and methods. - Make use of statistical data analysis software (MatLab, R, MiniTab, XLStat). - Troubleshooting. - Close interaction with the production and quality department cadre. - Comissioning of machines (IQ/EQ) - Co-lead of automation projects. - Performing process training and teaching of security standards. - Networking at various technology conventions. - Screening of in-development technologies. - Travelling up to 20 % throughout Europe.