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Reporting to: CEO

Responsible for: Global operations across multiple sites (Ireland, USA, Canada, and new locations as they are introduced)

Direct Reports: Site Directors across international locations, along with Global Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Quality leaders.

Purpose of Role
The Vice President of Global Operations is responsible for ensuring operational excellence while enabling scalable growth across a global network. This leader will drive both continuity of existing operations and the development of new production capabilities—transforming prototypes into manufacturable, repeatable, and profitable programs. The position will be instrumental in building a systematic approach to product realization, ensuring that customer handoffs from the commercial team translate into successful, on-time, and compliant production launches that meet deliverable and margin expectations. This role will also work in close collaboration with the Business Unit Presidents to ensure strategic alignment and operational execution of the company's growth and sustainability plans. Additionally, this leader will mentor and develop talent across the organization, fostering a unified corporate identity, culture, and operational synergy between sites. As a key member of the senior leadership team, this position will directly contribute to achieving ambitious financial performance targets through operational excellence and scalable efficiency.

Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Growth Enablement

• Develop and implement a global operations strategy that balances core business performance with scalable growth, ensuring readiness for new customer programs and technology introductions.
• Lead the development of a unified prototype-to-production framework, including processes, resources, and metrics that enable rapid validation, ramp-up, and transfer to steady-state production.
• Partner with Commercial, Engineering, and Program Management to ensure seamless handoff from concept to production—'from customer intent to operational reality.'
• Collaborate with Business Unit Presidents to align operational priorities with strategic growth objectives, ensuring cohesive planning and execution across the global organization.

2. Operational Excellence & Standardization

• Ensure world-class execution across manufacturing, supply chain, and quality, leveraging lean principles, automation, and digital systems.
• Establish consistent global KPIs to track throughput, quality, cost, and delivery performance while driving continuous improvement and operational discipline.
• Oversee the implementation of systems and tools (ERP, MES, and data analytics) to increase visibility, predictability, and decision-making speed.

3. Innovation & Capability Building

• Build scalable capabilities in precision manufacturing, complex subassembly integration, and validation testing that align with the company's strategic growth sectors including Med-Tech and Life Sciences.
• Lead capital investment planning and technology deployment to expand prototype and pilot production capacity in collaboration with the R&D functions.
• Develop workforce skills and leadership depth to support growth—building a culture of accountability, agility, and technical excellence across sites.

4. Financial & Customer Stewardship

• Collaborate with Finance to define operational budgets, ROI-driven capital plans, and site-level profitability targets.
• Partner with key customers to ensure operational alignment, transparency, and readiness for scaling programs.
• Support commercial growth by ensuring manufacturing readiness is a competitive differentiator.

 5. Compliance, Culture, and ESG

• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, quality, and environmental standards.
• Promote a unified company culture of innovation, collaboration, and shared success across all global sites.
• Lead ESG implementation through operational practices that minimize waste, energy consumption, and environmental impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Operations Management, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• 10+ years in global operations or manufacturing leadership roles, ideally within precision components, medical device, or analytical instrumentation sectors.
• Proven ability to build and scale manufacturing systems that enable product launches and revenue growth.
• Strong record of cross-functional collaboration—particularly with engineering, commercial, and program teams.
• Demonstrated success in leading operational transformations (Lean, Six Sigma, Industry 4.0).
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and decision-making skills; thrives in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.
• Willingness to travel internationally (20–30%).
• Mentor and develop emerging leaders and site management teams, ensuring a strong pipeline of operational talent capable of supporting the company’s next stage of growth.
• Drive cultural and operational integration across sites to create a unified, high-performing organization with shared goals and performance standards.
  

Please submit your CV to stephanie@intersearch.ie or ciara@intersearch.ie . Applications will be reviewed and only suitable candidates will be contacted.

Job Summary

This role is responsible for high volume manufacturing operations within a state of the art medical device business. The business is well established with a wide client portfolio and strong pipeline. They are seeking an experienced Production / Manufacturing leader able to oversee day to day production of 100+ employees across clean room environments.

Experience

At least 5 years’ high volume manufacturing leadership or supervisory experience in a medical device or plastics or plastic packaging business, ideally with knowledge of injection moulding manufacturing. Able to establish standards of performance, measure results, analyse workflow and troubleshoot problems.

Skills

Strong leadership, organisational and communication skills.

Able to analyse performance data and present actionable insights.

Able to influence and collaborate with all levels of the business.

A results-driven approach with a knack for problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Good understanding of lean manufacturing.

Role Responsibilities

Maintain a safe environment, enforce safety procedures/policies.

Manage the performance of the production facility, including resourcing, manpower and efficiency.

Monitor production data (downtime, waste, non-conformances) and implement solutions.

Monitor plant performance by shift, creating goals and reviewing tracking metrics.

Implement and uphold ISO 13485 standards, ensuring GMP compliance and product quality

Drive Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or other process improvement initiatives to enhance productivity.

Apply now and be part of our clients’ journey. For more information or to apply, please send your CV to Duncan at duncan@intersearch.ie

About the job

We’re seeking a dynamic leader for a senior Operations leadership position to oversee the day-to-day operations of a large-scale manufacturing facility. As part of the Senior Leadership Team, this role will drive efficiency, quality, and performance across production, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead operational strategy, driving cost reduction, process improvement, and quality excellence.
• Oversee production planning, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage budgets, KPIs, and performance metrics to optimize operations.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of 500+ across a 24/7 operation.
• Champion a culture of safety, quality, and employee engagement.
• Oversee significant supply chain operations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical/engineering discipline.
  8+ years in manufacturing operations, including 5+ in senior leadership.
• Must have proven success in driving operational excellence and leading large teams.
• Must have experience in managing managers.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience in a regulated industry essential
• Experience in a multinational environment
• Experience with regulatory compliance and supply chain management.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
• Demonstrable track record for leading a site/operation of similar scale and complexity

Apply now and be part of our clients’ journey. For more information or to apply, please send your CV to Ciara at ciara@intersearch.ie