Associate Plant Director

**Job Description Summary**: Accountable to drive performance BD Curitiba Plant that manufactures needles, syringes, vacutainer tubes and other medical devices.
Provides leadership for customer satisfaction, continuous manufacturing improvement, new product launches and the development of employees through training, education and involvement.
Supports the Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain in the development of manufacturing plans and strategies of the ISC - MDS manufacturing operation end to end and ensures its successful deployment.
The incumbent is accountable to directly oversee Curitiba site and oversee several aspects of the Integrated Supply Chain (Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost) and create a competitive advantage for the business by providing significant value to our end customers through cost effective, predictable and reliable manufacturing solutions.
Participates and supports various Platform and Core teams to achieve manufacturing and business objectives.
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**Responsibilities**:
- ** Site strategy**: provide leadership and visionary concepts for development of strategies for the site that support business and operations goals and objectives with a zero-loss mindset.
Ensuring to deliver results for Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost, with and E2E approach.
- ** Safety**: foster and maintain a culture that prioritizes associate safety and create and operate systems to drive continuous improvements in this area.
- ** People development**: develop an environment that influences and encourages associate empowerment, development, involvement and commitment.
Develop and implement resource development plan in support of the site development strategy and ensure succession planning is managed effectively across all key positions.
- ** Manage plant leadership team**: provide proper coaching and management to the plant leadership team.
Ensure that clear individual development objectives are defined and met and that required individual support is provided.
Manage required changes if necessary, to support the site ramp up plan.
- ** Ensure compliance with regulatory policies and standard**: manage compliance activities to ensure that the facility meets all regulatory agency requirements on the local, state and international levels.
Coordinate compliance programs as deemed necessary to ensure proper direction and adherence to Company policies and procedures.
- ** Meet with all regulation regarding facility management**: responsible for the maintenance of all buildings, facilities and equipment in accordance with established company policies and governmental/local agency regulations.
Ensure respect of all national, regional or local policies, procedures and other permitting process as it relates to facility and construction management.
- ** EHS compliance**: promote & maintain awareness and compliance of Environment Health and Safety rules and regulation in accordance with best practice and legal requirement.
- ** Direct the establishment** of the **yearly budgets** and goals for all activities within each department.
Communicate, monitor and control the budgets throughout the planned period, to ensure goals are met and variances are controlled.
Responsible for the **accounting and financial reporting** of the Curitiba plant activity per company policy to ensure the Site achieve CTW, BDPS and Continuous Improvement targets with an End to End approach.
- ** Represent Curitiba plant**: as Associate Director of the Curitiba plant ensure proper representation of the plant in all legal, tax and any regulatory affairs as it concerns plant.
Ensure that the proper image of the plant and BD is established and maintained locally.
Develop and implement the required action plan and strategy to build and maintain the plant and BD image within the community at local or regional level as well as part of the required professional or political organizations.
- Work closely with the **WW Supply Chain** organizations for establishing and meeting production capacity objectives for the plant.
Ensure that capacity ramp up plan, product and/or technology project are performed on time and oversee inventory management, ensure inventory is managed in accordance with Supply Chain team.
- Responsible for the overall **quality of the products** manufactured at Curitiba, Brazil Plant, ensure that products meet the customer/business specifications a