Colorado Springs Plant Director (Medical Devices)

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Colorado Springs Plant Director (Medical Devices)

Job Description Colorado Springs Plant Director (Medical Devices) The Plant Director is responsible for the overall performance and strategic direction of the manufacturing site, including service, cost, quality, and safety performance. The role oversees manufacturing operations, supports successful new product introductions (NPI), and drives strategic initiatives aligned with business growth.

The Plant Director ensures reliable product supply while strengthening operational capabilities, leadership culture, and long-term manufacturing readiness. The role requires strong operational leadership, business acumen, and the ability to influence across multiple stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities Of The Plant Director

• Operational Leadership: Provide leadership for site operations to ensure reliable product supply, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Oversee manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and site support functions to ensure safe and efficient production. Lead cross-functional collaboration with Quality, Procurement, Supplier Quality, Facilities, R&D, People, IT, Distribution, Demand Planning, and Supply Planning. Navigate a complex stakeholder environment with multiple functions and senior leaders on-site.
• Strategic Manufacturing Leadership: Develop and execute the long-term manufacturing strategy aligned with business growth. Drive improvements in manufacturing scalability, automation, and operational efficiency while supporting the successful industrialization and scaling of new product introductions. Define and implement the site technology roadmap, including automation, process modernization, and digital manufacturing capabilities.
• Quality and Regulatory Compliance: Ensure full compliance with regulatory and quality standards, including FDA QSR, ISO 13485, and EU MDR. Maintain oversight of the site quality system, including defect resolution, process performance, and cost of quality, while promoting a strong culture of patient safety.
• Operational Excellence: Lead Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to improve productivity and operational performance. Strengthen process discipline, root cause problem solving, and system-level improvements to drive productivity and manufacturing flow optimization.
• Supply Chain Resilience and Capacity Planning: Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality teams to strengthen manufacturing continuity and supply chain resilience. Develop long-range capacity planning strategies to support product portfolio growth and demand variability.
• Safety and Risk Management: Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations. Oversee risk assessments and mitigation strategies to support safe and reliable operations.
• Talent and Culture Development: Develop high-performing teams, people development while supporting succession planning and workforce capability development.
• Financial and Business Performance: Accountable for site financial performance, including manufacturing cost, productivity, capital investments, and operational budgets. Develop and manage the Annual Operating Plan and multi-year investment plans, and drive financial discipline through business case development and effective resource allocation.
• External Representation: Represent the manufacturing site with external partners, regulatory bodies, and industry stakeholders when required and support collaboration across the global manufacturing network.

You're The Right Fit If

• 12+ years of experience in complex manufacturing environments as a Plant Manager or Manufacturing Site Leader. This will be a People Leader role of 7 Direct Reports, 300 indirectly in areas such as Industrial, Manufacturing, Production Engineering or equivalent, in a highly regulated environment (Medical Devices, Automotive, Aerospace).
• Medical device manufacturing background preferred with strong understanding of major regulation requirements, Example: FDA.
• Lean Leadership Training/Certification or equivalent is preferred.
• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Mechanical, Electro-mechanical, Industrial Engineering and Business or equivalent.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

How We Work Together We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an onsite role in Colorado Springs.

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Philips Transparency Details The pay range for this position in Colorado Springs is $155,000,to $247,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.