Plant Manager

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

Leads multi facility (campus) or multi-modality operations. Leads the site(s) management team(s) driving the daily execution of all aspects of handling and processing Customer products. Responsible for ensuring adherence to all regulatory requirements. Responsible for management of site(s) Safety culture and program. Has P&L responsibility for the facility/facilities.

What You Will Do

Operational Excellence (25%)

• Responsible for development of Safety culture, programs and compliance. Leads Plant Safety
• Leader of Lean Steering Committee (LSC) responsible for the lean transformation of the plant
• Audits and improves SQDC board metrics and adjusts priorities based on countermeasure performance and business needs.
• Audits SQDC board and adjusts priorities based on countermeasure performance and business needs. o Identifies and creates systems to visualize the flow of information and products allowing people to immediately detect and correct abnormal conditions.
• Communicates and manages capacity utilization to internal and external Customers.
• Responsible for adherence to all applicable operating regulations (FDA, ISO, OSHA, NRC, EPA, DOT)
  
  

People Leadership (25%)

• Drives a culture of positive employee relations, including responsiveness to safety, employee relations issues, disciplinary actions, communicating clear expectations and accountability processes, demonstrating effective leadership presence.
• Develops direct reports and ensures tools are in place to develop staff and succession planning.
• Owns employee engagement and action items to provide ongoing, positive change to site culture aligned with STERIS Business Imperatives.
• Responsible for employee performance management and corrective actions in conjunction with Human Resources.
• Provides final approval for recruiting, interviewing, hiring and onboarding.
  
  

Duties - cont'd

Customer Relationships (25%)

• Regularly interfaces with Customers to ensure service levels and expectations are met. o Partner with Sales leadership in conducting routine business reviews with Customers. o Resolves escalated Customer issues from the sterilization process.
• Active involvement in Customer visits and Business Reviews. o Interface with Sales on Customer and capacity management.
• Responsible for resolution of nonconformance resulting in Customer product reimbursement.
  
  

Delivering Results (25%)

• Ensures performance across a range of activities and metrics within their area at the facility/campus level:
• Manage Safety Program to ensure safe working environment. No OSHA Recordable Injuries or Days
• Customer Service – Ensure Customer processing needs are exceeded from inbound receipt of product to return shipment.
• Improve accuracy during product processing to eliminate Customer product damage and quality related issues (NC/CC). Investigate Quality issues and corrective action development.
• Ensure adherence to Safety and Quality requirements while handling Customer products, operating equipment and performing routine job functions.
• Engage workforce through use of Lean Principles while seeking to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC). Development of Countermeasures and execution of Action Plans to improve daily performance.
• Develop operating budget and manage area expenses to ensure P&L targets are achieved. o Recommend, submit and manage capital projects through completion.
  
  

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree. Engineering or Business.
• 5+ years operations leadership and people management. 10+ years in lieu of degree
• 5+ years safety culture development and management
• 2+ years budget preparation
• 2+ years working across plant locations and with corporate functions
• 5+ years driving diverse and complex agendas (Customer, employee, SQDC)
• 5+ years talent selection and development
• Direct Customer relationship management
• Capacity management
• Negotiations and influencing skills
• Developing and delivering presentations
• LEAN Manufacturing
  
  

What We Offer

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing:

• Competitive pay
• Annual merit bonus and incentive plans
• Medical, vision, prescription, dental and life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Paid vacation time and paid holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Opportunities for advancement
  
  

Join us and help write our next chapter.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by

• 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.