The Opportunity:

Avantor, a Global Fortune 500 company is looking for a dedicated Senior Manager of Operations to optimize our Performance Materials organization. This Paris, KY role is full-time, on-site. Candidates throughout the USA will be considered.

Minimum Education Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience (3+ years):

• Senior management of people and operations
• Experience working in a chemical related industry
• Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Quality/ safety
• Management of change (MOC)
• Corporate level communication skills
• Working with manufacturing-based processes and principles

Preferred Experience:

• Training/ experience in continuous improvement methods including 6 sigma or lean manufacturing
• Developing operational processes to increase efficiency/ productivity
• Team collaboration
• Overseeing production output/ quality and on-time shipping

How you will thrive and create an impact:

Serving customers worldwide, The Avantor Performance Materials organization manufactures and markets chemical products such as acids, advanced silicones, biological buffers, denaturants, and electronic chemicals, as well as diagnostics solutions.

This SME role offers significant opportunities for professional growth and leadership development.

Reporting to the site Senior Director, the Senior Manager of Operations will:

• Oversee all daily operations of the plant from production and manufacturing while ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
• Maintain/ implement policies, processes and procedures to meet the requirements of regulatory and compliance standards, safety standards, GMP policies, product requirements, customer requirements, and business requirements.
• Manage a multi-department team comprised of individual contributors to management.
• Determine responsibilities of team
• Lead the team to accomplish business objectives, daily schedule completion, training, and professional development plans; inclusive of associate hiring, training, advising, developing, and performance management.
• Lead/ participate on project teams to identify and evaluate process improvements (safety, quality, efficiency, capacity, capability, automation, etc.).
• Utilize lean manufacturing, and other process improvement methods to establish world class manufacturing and inventory management.
• Establish, develop and manage processes/ systems to allow for effective and efficient production operations that meet or exceed operational requirements for quality, procedural adherence, schedule adherence, work completion, lead times, budget/work standards, and optimal workflow
• Prepare/ assist in preparing departmental budgets.
• Build business cases, cost models and financial justifications for process improvements and projects as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

EEO Statement:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

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3rd Party Non-Solicitation Policy:

By submitting candidates without having been formally assigned on and contracted for a specific job requisition by Avantor, or by failing to comply with the Avantor recruitment process, you forfeit any fee on the submitted candidates, regardless of your usual terms and conditions. Avantor works with a preferred supplier list and will take the initiative to engage with recruitment agencies based on its needs and will not be accepting any form of solicitation.