Senior Director, Engineering-plant Operations

Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world-class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient-focused culture to deliver life-changing innovations to those who need them most.

We recently announced plans to expand in Spain by building a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Moncada, Valencia. When it becomes operational in 2026, the plant will manufacture Edwards' surgical and transcatheter heart valve replacement technologies and will join a global network of more than 16,000 talented team members and five other production plants. Our new facility in Moncada will welcome up to 1,500 dedicated team members by 2029 across manufacturing, engineering, and several other professional career paths. Hiring for professional positions has started and will continue through the winter and early spring, with specialized training for manufacturing hires beginning in the fall of 2025.

**The role**:
Manage team and responsible for facilities and reliability engineering functions within assigned manufacturing plant.

**How you will make an Impact**:

- Has overall responsibility of facilities and assets through their lifecycle including design, construction, implementation, and maintenance. Manage resources including expense priorities, capital and expense budgeting (e.g., AOP), and facilities and asset management (e.g., metrology/calibration, facility machine shop, critical systems, and spare parts, facilities and equipment maintenance, reliability engineering and other engineering services). Develop long term capital planning and execution plans aligned to the organization's strategy. Drive culture, engage staff morale and ensure employees' safety.
- Direct team members and develop a robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across the engineering organization.
- Set facilities and equipment management, maintenance, asset management, predictive maintenance, and equipment reliability strategy around efforts to optimize business processes. Define and implement core competencies, by assessing business needs and developing, proposing and implementing solutions.
- Collaborate with network leadership to develop operational strategy. Partner with cross-functional groups/resources to achieve tactical execution plans of business objectives to ensure operational excellence, risk identification and reduction in compliance with quality, safety, and environmental standards.
- Negotiate and oversee the development and execution of plans, budgets and schedules for all facility and equipment modifications, expansions, shutdowns, infrastructure programs, capital investments for lifecycle management, capacity, upgrades and/or new construction in partnership with cross-functional teams. Anticipate business needs from an infrastructure standpoint and propose strategies to address.
- Responsible for general plant-wide manufacturing and shared services, contract management (e.g., security, cafe, cleaning services, services and service contracts, pest control) and establishing appropriate performance measures, SLA (Service Level Agreements), and standards.
- Collaborate with BU, Corporate, and other plants in the Global Supply Chain network maintain processes standardization and leverage best practices.
- Responsible for and drive the implementation of site facilities master plan. Oversight on cleanroom qualification, construction, controlled manufacturing drawings/procedures, and validations of the manufacturing plant.
- Drive a value stream mindset and culture of continuous improvement based on lean and Six Sigma principles and EW Production System (EPS).
- Other incidental duties.

**What you will need**:
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (e.g., Mechanical, Electronic) skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Senior Manager and experience in facilities and asset management Required and demonstrated track record in operations management Required. Experience working in a regulated industry Preferred.

**What else we look for**:

- Proven successful project management leadership skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced Excel and manufacturing systems.
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives.
- Expert understanding of engineering procedures while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems.
- Expert understanding of related aspects of facilities and asset management.
- Expert knowledge of financial acumen as it relates to facilities and asset management.
- Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all e