Manufacturing Director

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A Day in the LifeMedtronic is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Manufacturing Director to lead operations at our Tijuana campus, supporting the Acute Care & Monitoring, Peripheral Vascular Health, and Surgical Innovations business units. This role represents a unique opportunity to lead manufacturing operations within a complex, high-impact medical technology environment that plays a critical role in delivering life-saving and life-enhancing therapies to patients around the world.
The Manufacturing Director will provide strategic leadership for large and extra-large scale plant operations, driving operational excellence, financial performance, and sustainable growth. This leader will bring strong financial acumen and a deep understanding of manufacturing economics to ensure disciplined execution, efficient resource allocation, and consistent delivery against business objectives.
A key priority for this role will be leading cultural and operational transformation—strengthening accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement across the organization. The successful candidate will inspire teams, develop leadership capability, and foster a high-performance culture that supports innovation, quality, and patient-focused outcomes.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Responsible for the development and implementation of activities in production area(s) to meet production goals, quality, and cost objectives.
• Prioritizes production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, and materials supply.
• Plans and administers procedures and budgets.
• Makes budgetary recommendations on capital expenditures and direct/indirect labor.
• Selects and develops personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the production function.
• Develops schedules and manpower requirements for assigned areas.
• Management Skills: Management of Financial and Material Resources, Critical Thinking, Project Management, Management of Personnel Resources, Collaboration and Productivity Software, Effective Communication Skills.
• Functional Skills: Machining and Manufacturing Technologies, Proficient computer skills, Data Science and Analysis, Lean Manufacturing and continued improvement, Managing Quality.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Manages department (s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by managers and / or supervisors.
Provides motivational leadership for the area managed.
Provides thought and technical leadership.
Performs work without appreciable direction.

Organizational Impact: Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company’s aims and objectives.
Management authority to make large business decisions and some strategic decisions.
Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company.
Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department, broad functional area or geography.

Innovation and Complexity: Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing.
Significantly improves, changes or adapts own department or business area’s processes, systems, products or services.
Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Communication and Influence: Develops long term strategic relationships and alliances with key internal and external stakeholders.
Communicates and conducts briefings with senior or executive leadership regarding ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
Influences across functions and businesses to negotiate and gain cooperation on operational issues and internal divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management: Directs and leads a department, broad functional area or geography, including one or more teams led by managers and / or supervisors.
Determines supervisory relationships, and creates workforce and staffing plans to accomplish business results.
Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar.
• MBA preferred.
• Advanced English

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience required, including 7+ years of Management or leadership experience.
• An advanced degree may be considered with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of Management or leadership experience.

Key Qualifications

• Broad management and leadership capability to lead multiple functional areas.
• Strong functional and operational expertise.
• Mastery-level knowledge within a specific technical or professional discipline, with broad understanding across related areas.
• Strong financial background and business acumen.
• Lean transformation experience; Lean certification, Shingo Alumni, and/or Black Belt certification.
• Proven experience leading large and extra-large plant operations.
• Strong new product introduction and project management experience.
• Experience in Cost Reduction
• Culture Transformation Experience

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.