Senior Director, Global Engineering

🔥 17 hours ago

🦌 Connecticut, Florida, +6 more states – Remote

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💵 $167.5k - $282.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across Avantor’s global engineering organization • Establish and execute global engineering strategy, standards, governance structures, and execution roadmaps • Own and govern global capital portfolios, including programs up to $50M and capital projects up to $150M • Lead front-end engineering design and execution of major capital investments • Ensure project lifecycle execution from concept development through 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 • Develop asset lifecycle and reliability strategies and improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) • Lead Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, and corrective actions • Provide technical leadership in discrete assembly and fill, chemical processing, scale-up, and optimization • Guide deployment of robotics, PLC/SCADA, MES integration, and advanced controls • Ensure processes and designs comply with GMP, ISO, PSM, regulatory, and corporate safety requirements • Lead, coach, and develop director-level and managerial talent • Manage workforce planning, hiring, staffing, resource allocation, and people-management decisions • Collaborate with global operations, quality, supply chain, regulatory, commercial teams, EPC firms, vendors, and technology providers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related discipline required • 15+ years of progressive engineering and operations leadership experience in chemical, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or similarly regulated environments • 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 in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or MBA preferred • PMP certification preferred • Experience in multi-site global organizations with complex supply chains preferred • Exposure to digital manufacturing, IT/OT integration, MES, EBR systems, and advanced controls preferred • Prior responsibility for engineering budgets, capital allocation, and portfolio governance preferred • Familiarity with GMP, ISO 9001/13485, and other regulated quality systems preferred

🏖️ Benefits

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