Senior Director, Global Engineering

🔥 13 hours ago

🦌 Connecticut, Florida, +12 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

• 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 • Serve on the operations PMO leadership team and influence manufacturing footprint, capacity, and technology decisions • Own and govern global capital programs up to $50M and capital projects up to $150M, including plant builds, expansions, and infrastructure investments • Lead projects through concept development, FEED, design, execution, commissioning, and handover • Drive alignment across operations, supply chain, quality, EHS, and finance on scope, schedule, budget, and business-case KPIs • Establish automation standards and upgrade strategies for existing and next-generation equipment • Integrate manufacturing systems with enterprise digital platforms and partner with IT, digital, and cybersecurity teams • Deploy Industry 4.0 technologies, advanced analytics, and smart-factory solutions • Develop asset lifecycle and reliability strategies to improve uptime, maintainability, and cost efficiency • Improve enterprise-wide Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and operational predictability • Apply Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, and systemic corrective actions • Provide technical leadership in discrete assembly and fill, chemical processing, scale-up, and optimization • Guide deployment of automated manufacturing systems, robotics, PLC/SCADA, MES integration, and advanced controls • Ensure processes and engineering designs meet GMP, ISO, regulatory, corporate safety, and customer requirements • Ensure compliance with PSM, including PHA, HAZOP, mechanical integrity, and MOC • Embed inherent safety, risk-based decisions, containment, and environmental stewardship into engineering execution • Lead, coach, and develop director-level and managerial talent • Manage workforce planning, hiring, staffing, resource allocation, and people-management decisions • Foster accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the organization • Collaborate with operations, quality, supply chain, regulatory affairs, and commercial teams • Manage external relationships with EPC firms, vendors, equipment suppliers, and technology providers • Balance global standardization with regional regulatory and market requirements

🎯 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 • 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 • 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 from the Project Management Institute 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 • Ability to lead in complex and ambiguous situations and exercise independent judgment • Experience with discrete assembly and fill, chemical processing, scale-up, and optimization within regulated environments • Knowledge of robotics, PLC/SCADA, MES integration, and advanced controls • Knowledge of PHA, HAZOP, mechanical integrity, and management of change (MOC) • Ability to collaborate with global, cross-functional stakeholders and external EPC firms, vendors, equipment suppliers, and technology providers

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Wellness programs • Health savings accounts • Flexible spending accounts • 401(k) plan with company match • Employee stock purchase program • 11 paid holidays • 18 PTO days annually • Volunteer time off • 6 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, except in states that offer paid family leave • Learning experiences to support career growth and success