Sr Director, Sustaining Engineering

Location: Ogden, Utah (Not a remote role)

Purpose and Scope: The Head of Sustaining Center for Value Stream Dialyzer and Capacity Planning (VSD) for In-Center holds two critical global leadership mandates:

• •Lead Sustaining Engineering and post-launch product lifecycle management for the €1.2B Value Stream Dialyzers business
• •Lead integrated capacity planning and capacity strategy for the €4B In-Center business unit

For VSD, the position protects business continuity, product compliance, customer supply, manufacturing performance, and lifecycle competitiveness across the global Dialyzer portfolio.

For In-Center, the position establishes the global capacity-planning framework and translates commercial demand, portfolio strategy, regional growth, and technology roadmaps into capacity scenarios, investment priorities, and manufacturing-network recommendations.

The position reports to the SVP, Value Stream Dialyzers Leader , serves as a member of the VSD Leadership Team , and operates with an enterprise-wide mandate across In-Center.

Strategic Business Impact

• •Protect €1.2B in annual VSD revenue by safeguarding product availability, regulatory compliance, manufacturing continuity, and post-launch performance.
• •Lead capacity planning for the €4B In-Center business , ensuring timely capacity availability to support growth, portfolio transitions, and customer demand.
• •Own the global Dialyzer portfolio after launch , including reliability, compliance, manufacturability, supply resilience, cost competitiveness, and lifecycle value.
• •Define and authorize VSD sustaining priorities , including critical product, process, material, supplier, quality, and manufacturing changes.
• •Develop and recommend In-Center capacity assumptions and scenarios and major capacity, technology, and manufacturing-network investments.
• •Authorize business-continuity actions when supply, quality, regulatory, supplier, or manufacturing risks threaten business performance.
• •Drive structural productivity and cost improvement across the established Dialyzer portfolio and manufacturing network.
• •Build and lead global organizations with strong engineering, analytical, financial, and strategic planning capabilities.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

VSD Sustaining Engineering and Lifecycle Leadership

• •Define, approve, and lead the global Sustaining Engineering strategy for Value Stream Dialyzers.
• •Hold executive accountability for the performance and continuity of the Dialyzer portfolio following commercial launch.
• •Authorize and prioritize product, process, material, supplier, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing changes based on patient, business, compliance, and supply impact.
• •Lead the transition of newly launched products into stable, scalable, and cost-effective lifecycle management.
• •Approve lifecycle roadmaps and recommendations for product extension, redesign, transfer, rationalization, hold, or discontinuation.
• •Anticipate and mitigate lifecycle risks, including obsolescence, material discontinuation, supplier dependency, quality trends, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• •Serve as the executive escalation and decision authority for critical sustaining issues within the position’s mandate.

VSD Business Continuity and Competitiveness

• •Authorize cross-functional response programs where supplier, material, quality, regulatory, capacity, or manufacturing risks threaten customer supply.
• •Approve mitigation priorities, contingency measures, and resource deployment within delegated authority.
• •Establish governance and executive visibility for material business-continuity risks.
• •Define and approve the VSD productivity and lifecycle competitiveness roadmap.
• •Lead initiatives in automation, yield improvement, process optimization, design-to-value, material cost reduction, standardization, and complexity reduction.
• •Hold teams accountable for measurable improvements in supply reliability, cost, margin, quality, and lifecycle performance.

In-Center Capacity Planning, Investment and Manufacturing-Network Strategy

• •Define, lead, and institutionalize the integrated capacity-planning and manufacturing-network strategy for the €4B In-Center business.
• •Translate market demand, commercial ambitions, portfolio roadmaps, regional growth, and technology strategies into long-term capacity requirements and investment priorities.
• •Establish a transparent global view of demand, effective capacity, utilization, constraints, replacement needs, and investment timing; approve planning assumptions, methodologies, and capacity scenarios before presentation to In-Center leadership.
• •Challenge demand and supply assumptions, identify future constraints early, and recommend capacity-allocation priorities during constrained-supply situations.
• •Lead the evaluation of strategic alternatives, including existing-site expansion, new or replacement lines, technology and product conversions, automation, product transfers, regional manufacturing options, internal versus external manufacturing, and site consolidation or repositioning.
• •Ensure decisions reflect total business economics, including capital, production and logistics costs, market access, regulatory complexity, resilience, implementation timing, and scalability.
• •Advise senior leadership on investment prioritization and maintain executive oversight to ensure approved investments deliver committed capacity, cost, timing, and business outcomes.
• •Direct and develop business cases (~ 100M Euro Capex one production dialyzer line) of new production line by leading cross-functional organizations.

Executive Governance and Cross-Functional Leadership

• •Serve as a member of the VSD Leadership Team, contributing to business strategy, portfolio direction, financial planning, and organizational priorities.
• •Represent VSD and In-Center in relevant sustaining, capacity, and investment governance forums.
• •Chair or sponsor global governance for VSD sustaining and In-Center capacity planning.
• •Lead alignment across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Management, R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, and Digital.
• •Resolve cross-functional, cross-site, and cross-regional prioritization conflicts within the position’s mandate.
• •Ensure executive decisions are translated into clear accountability, funding, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

Organization, People and Financial Leadership

• •Design and lead the global VSD Sustaining Center and In-Center Capacity Planning organization.
• •Lead senior managers, Sustaining Center leaders, capacity-planning leaders, technical experts, business managers, and analysts.
• •Approve organizational structures, workforce plans, capability requirements, and succession priorities in alignment with HR governance.
• •Own budgets and resource plans and approve expenditures within delegated authority.
• •Set performance expectations and hold leaders accountable for business, financial, quality, technical, and organizational outcomes.
• •Build a high-performance culture centered on accountability, speed, collaboration, transparency, and enterprise value creation.
• •Sponsor digital tools and analytics that strengthen lifecycle, capacity, investment, and risk-based decision-making.

Decision Authority: Subject to FME’s delegation of authority, Quality Management System, and applicable governance requirements, the position will:

For VSD

• •Approve global Sustaining Engineering priorities and portfolio sequencing.
• •Authorize major product, process, material, supplier, and manufacturing change programs.
• •Approve sustaining budgets and resource allocation within delegated authority.
• •Authorize supply-continuity and risk-mitigation actions.
• •Approve or endorse major Dialyzer lifecycle decisions.
• •Stop, redirect, or escalate programs not meeting approved business, quality, regulatory, financial, or delivery requirements.

For In-Center

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