External Operations Manager Jobs in Delaware (NOW HIRING)

Waters Corporation is currently seeking a highly motivated and team-oriented candidate to oversee our Assembly & Test Operations areas where a mix of intensive labor and electromechanical equipment are required to meet customer demand. In this role, the successful candidate will oversee a team of approx. 90 employees in a single shift production environment. This role will also manage the warehouse to ensure accurate and timely material flow to the production team. The Sr. Manager, Assembly Operations is accountable to achieve the financial and operational goals in alignment with the strategic goals and objectives of the business with the highest levels of integrity.

The successful candidate will be a passionate, agile and transformational leader, who strives to deliver superior value to our internal and external customers every day. This hands-on position requires dynamic leadership, excellent interpersonal skills, problem solving, critical thinking as well as a lean manufacturing skills in order to see the organization succeed

• Strive for 0 injuries/accidents. Champion a physically and mentally safe environment for all employees and coworkers creating a high self-awareness and demonstrated injuries reduction over time until reaching 0 accidents.

• Consistently participate in EHS programs as a lead auditor such as: BBS, SOP Audits, Risk Assessment & Ergonomics to ensure a safe workplace for all employees while supporting water and waste reduction.
• Lead cross-functional team to meet quality performance, targeting FPY initiative for improvements by using the right problem-solving tools.
• Support development and the use of quality plans to achieve out of the box and installation success metrics.
• Sponsor the lean operating system transformation process to reduce costs, improve efficiency while enabling teams towards a culture of performance.
• Ensure discipline, consistency and standard work around day-to-day production management leveraging the daily management process across all tiers.
• Proactively set all resources to achieve production plans, meeting plan attainment targets and ultimately product availability for customers via production execution as expected.
• Establish and execute strategies to meet productivity metrics such as: DL: ABS, IDL:ABS ratio as well as meeting expected labor & line efficiency, achieving the absorption with the resources required.
• Ensure standard & best practices implementation between areas to improve visibility, analytics and performance.
• Collaborate closely with NPI to ensure product-process readiness and stability along with a smooth transfer of products into production.
• Have high accountability to flex site expenses with the volume. Initiatives, cost action or cost improvement projects must be developed and executed.
• Meet all performance measures and targets associated with Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery.
• Develop technical capability of the workforce and leadership through ongoing training and learning plan. Ensure skill matrix deployment to monitor, improve and develop employee's individual capability and flexibility skills within the production areas.
• Provide guidance and support when required to global contract manufacturers.
• Effectively schedule projects for optimal resources utilization.
• Ensure production leadership participation and commitment to the planning consensus. Must provide insights of headcounts availability and constraint time so that consensus for the plan be effective.
• Demonstrate, teach, certify, and deploy root cause problem solving, making sure the production team address the problems systematically (5W, 3S). Lead kaizen events as expected in collaboration with CI partners.
• Manage departmental employees establishing clear goals and expectations aligned with business strategy, providing the resources they need to do their jobs and ensuring their development.
• Consistently apply talent management process, identify key resources, and develop career plans.

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related science required. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years management experience in Manufacturing Operations
• Lean / Six Sigma : Green belt Lean certification required , Black Belt preferred. Demonstrated experience in deploying leam manufacturing methodologies to drive continuous improvement and employee engagement
• Project Management experience: PMP certification preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing P&L  for manufacturing operations, achieving financial targets and managing through impactful floor based KPI's
• Strong leadership skills, self-directed and the ability to make independent decisions and influence change.
• Demonstrated ability in coaching teams to improve and build organizational capability
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with SAP and Microsoft applications required.
• Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and drive corrective actions.
• Familiarity with cGMP, ISO 9001:2015 is highly desired.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT)  is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.  

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.