Senior Director, Global Engineering

🔥 12 hours ago

🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Avantor

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1904

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Consulting

Avantor is a leading life science tools company and global provider of mission-critical products and services to the life sciences and advanced technology industries. The company collaborates with scientists around the world to enable breakthroughs in medicine, healthcare, and technology. Avantor offers a proven portfolio of trusted, quality brands used in research, development, and production activities across more than 300,000 customer locations in 180 countries. It focuses on supporting scientific journeys through reliable products, digital solutions, innovation, and manufacturing facilities. Avantor is committed to sustainability, advancing biopharma, and enhancing scientific collaboration with digital technologies.

📋 Description

• Define and execute Avantor’s global engineering strategy aligned with growth, operational excellence, and sustainability goals • Translate strategy into functional objectives, governance structures, and execution roadmaps • Establish global engineering standards, design principles, and best practices • Lead and govern global capital programs, plant builds, expansions, and infrastructure projects • Ensure project execution across concept development, FEED, design, execution, commissioning, and handover • Drive cross-functional alignment across operations, supply chain, quality, EHS, and finance • Establish automation standards and integrate manufacturing systems with enterprise digital platforms • Deploy Industry 4.0 technologies, advanced analytics, and smart factory solutions • Improve asset lifecycle, reliability, uptime, maintainability, cost efficiency, and OEE • Lead process engineering and deployment of automated manufacturing systems, robotics, PLC/SCADA, MES integration, and advanced controls • Ensure compliance with GMP, ISO, PSM, regulatory, corporate safety, and environmental standards • Lead, coach, and develop director-level and managerial talent • Manage workforce planning, hiring, staffing, resource allocation, and people decisions • Collaborate with global internal teams and external EPC firms, vendors, suppliers, and technology providers • Balance global standardization with regional flexibility and influence executive-level stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Operations (or related discipline) • 15+ years of progressive engineering and operations leadership experience in chemical, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or similarly regulated environments • Demonstrated experience leading global engineering organizations and capital portfolios, including Programs up to $20M and plant builds and expansions above $100M • Strong background in process engineering and discrete automated manufacturing systems • Proven expertise in Process Safety Management (PSM) and regulatory compliance • Experience managing new plant builds, large-scale expansions, and brownfield transformations • Track record of building and leading high-performing technical and leadership teams • Master’s degree preferred in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or an MBA • PMP certification preferred • Experience in multi-site global organizations with complex supply chains • Exposure to digital manufacturing, IT/OT integration, MES, EBR systems, and advanced controls • Prior responsibility for engineering budgets, capital allocation, and portfolio governance • Familiarity with GMP, ISO 9001/13485, and other regulated quality systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Learning experiences to support career growth and success • Diverse, equitable and inclusive culture • Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation process