Sr Director, Sustaining Engineering

Purpose and Scope: The Head of Sustaining Center for Value Stream Dialyzer and Capacity Planning (VSD) for In-Center holds two critical global leadership mandates:

• Lead Sustaining Engineering and post-launch product lifecycle management for the 1.2B Value Stream Dialyzers business
• Lead integrated capacity planning and capacity strategy for the 4B In-Center business unit

For VSD the position protects business continuity product compliance customer supply manufacturing performance and lifecycle competitiveness across the global Dialyzer portfolio.

For In-Center the position establishes the global capacity-planning framework and translates commercial demand portfolio strategy regional growth and technology roadmaps into capacity scenarios investment priorities and manufacturing-network recommendations.

The position reports to the SVP Value Stream Dialyzers Leader serves as a member of the VSD Leadership Team and operates with an enterprise-wide mandate across In-Center.

Strategic Business Impact

• Protect 1.2B in annual VSD revenue by safeguarding product availability regulatory compliance manufacturing continuity and post-launch performance.
• Lead capacity planning for the 4B In-Center business ensuring timely capacity availability to support growth portfolio transitions and customer demand.
• Own the global Dialyzer portfolio after launch including reliability compliance manufacturability supply resilience cost competitiveness and lifecycle value.
• Define and authorize VSD sustaining priorities including critical product process material supplier quality and manufacturing changes.
• Develop and recommend In-Center capacity assumptions and scenarios and major capacity technology and manufacturing-network investments.
• Authorize business-continuity actions when supply quality regulatory supplier or manufacturing risks threaten business performance.
• Drive structural productivity and cost improvement across the established Dialyzer portfolio and manufacturing network.
• Build and lead global organizations with strong engineering analytical financial and strategic planning capabilities.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

VSD Sustaining Engineering and Lifecycle Leadership

• Define approve and lead the global Sustaining Engineering strategy for Value Stream Dialyzers.
• Hold executive accountability for the performance and continuity of the Dialyzer portfolio following commercial launch.
• Authorize and prioritize product process material supplier quality regulatory and manufacturing changes based on patient business compliance and supply impact.
• Lead the transition of newly launched products into stable scalable and cost-effective lifecycle management.
• Approve lifecycle roadmaps and recommendations for product extension redesign transfer rationalization hold or discontinuation.
• Anticipate and mitigate lifecycle risks including obsolescence material discontinuation supplier dependency quality trends and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the executive escalation and decision authority for critical sustaining issues within the positions mandate.

VSD Business Continuity and Competitiveness

• Authorize cross-functional response programs where supplier material quality regulatory capacity or manufacturing risks threaten customer supply.
• Approve mitigation priorities contingency measures and resource deployment within delegated authority.
• Establish governance and executive visibility for material business-continuity risks.
• Define and approve the VSD productivity and lifecycle competitiveness roadmap.
• Lead initiatives in automation yield improvement process optimization design-to-value material cost reduction standardization and complexity reduction.
• Hold teams accountable for measurable improvements in supply reliability cost margin quality and lifecycle performance.

In-Center Capacity Planning Investment and Manufacturing-Network Strategy

• Define lead and institutionalize the integrated capacity-planning and manufacturing-network strategy for the 4B In-Center business.
• Translate market demand commercial ambitions portfolio roadmaps regional growth and technology strategies into long-term capacity requirements and investment priorities.
• Establish a transparent global view of demand effective capacity utilization constraints replacement needs and investment timing; approve planning assumptions methodologies and capacity scenarios before presentation to In-Center leadership.
• Challenge demand and supply assumptions identify future constraints early and recommend capacity-allocation priorities during constrained-supply situations.
• Lead the evaluation of strategic alternatives including existing-site expansion new or replacement lines technology and product conversions automation product transfers regional manufacturing options internal versus external manufacturing and site consolidation or repositioning.
• Ensure decisions reflect total business economics including capital production and logistics costs market access regulatory complexity resilience implementation timing and scalability.
• Advise senior leadership on investment prioritization and maintain executive oversight to ensure approved investments deliver committed capacity cost timing and business outcomes.
• Direct and develop business cases ( 100M Euro Capex one production dialyzer line) of new production line by leading cross-functional organizations.

Executive Governance and Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as a member of the VSD Leadership Team contributing to business strategy portfolio direction financial planning and organizational priorities.
• Represent VSD and In-Center in relevant sustaining capacity and investment governance forums.
• Chair or sponsor global governance for VSD sustaining and In-Center capacity planning.
• Lead alignment across Manufacturing Supply Chain Product Management R&D Quality Regulatory Procurement Finance Commercial and Digital.
• Resolve cross-functional cross-site and cross-regional prioritization conflicts within the positions mandate.
• Ensure executive decisions are translated into clear accountability funding milestones and measurable outcomes.

Organization People and Financial Leadership

• Design and lead the global VSD Sustaining Center and In-Center Capacity Planning organization.
• Lead senior managers Sustaining Center leaders capacity-planning leaders technical experts business managers and analysts.
• Approve organizational structures workforce plans capability requirements and succession priorities in alignment with HR governance.
• Own budgets and resource plans and approve expenditures within delegated authority.
• Set performance expectations and hold leaders accountable for business financial quality technical and organizational outcomes.
• Build a high-performance culture centered on accountability speed collaboration transparency and enterprise value creation.
• Sponsor digital tools and analytics that strengthen lifecycle capacity investment and risk-based decision-making.

Decision Authority: Subject to FMEs delegation of authority Quality Management System and applicable governance requirements the position will:

For VSD

• Approve global Sustaining Engineering priorities and portfolio sequencing.
• Authorize major product process material supplier and manufacturing change programs.
• Approve sustaining budgets and resource allocation within delegated authority.
• Authorize supply-continuity and risk-mitigation actions.
• Approve or endorse major Dialyzer lifecycle decisions.
• Stop redirect or escalate programs not meeting approved business quality regulatory financial or delivery requirements.

For In-Center

• Recommend global capacity-planning assumptions methodologies and scenarios.
• Authorize development of strategic capacity and investment business cases.
• Recommend major CAPEX capacity expansion technology transfer product transfer and manufacturing-footprint decisions.
• Challenge and validate demand utilization timing and investment assumptions.
• Resolve or escalate cross-portfolio and cross-site capacity conflicts.
• Represent In-Center in capacity investment and manufacturing-network reviews.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Requires travel both domestic and international travel up to 25%.

SUPERVISION:

Will be responsible for a global team of up to 20 staff members including managerial level staff.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Masters degree in engineering or a related discipline; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience in a global regulated and technology-driven organization.
• Significant leadership experience in Sustaining Engineering Product Lifecycle Management Manufacturing Supply Chain Capacity Strategy Operations R&D or Finance.
• Proven experience leading senior managers and geographically distributed multidisciplinary organizations.
• Demonstrated accountability for major portfolios capacity strategies business-continuity programs budgets or manufacturing networks.
• Strong record of developing CAPEX proposals and influencing senior investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex supplier quality regulatory manufacturing and capacity risks.
• Strong commercial judgment financial acumen strategic thinking and executive decision-making capability.
• Ability to influence beyond direct reporting lines and align senior stakeholders across functions sites and regions.
• Courage to make communicate and defend difficult decisions.
• Fluent business English and willingness to travel internationally.

Relocation available to Utah.

Fresenius Medical Care maintains a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.