Director of Manufacturing Engineering

As the site leader of an expanding Manufacturing Engineering team, you will be a driving force behind the manufacture of Penumbra's high volume, innovative products. You will lead strategic vision for this new site and drive teams to ensure Penumbra's life-saving products are readily available and produced with increased efficiency. Pivotal accomplishments for the person in this role will be to build out a robust team, enable the strategic introduction of new products at the site, and lead teams to achieve goals. Working cross-functionally and cross-site with Production, Quality, R&D, and other groups, you will direct the site transfer and scale-up of products. Additionally, you will facilitate the identification of novel technologies and generation of manufacturing efficiency opportunities for our equipment, processes, and products. Your passion to innovate manufacturing processes, results-orientation to push projects to completion, and collaborative leadership will enable Penumbra to transform patient care with our innovative therapies!

What You’ll Work On:

• Establish and execute Manufacturing Engineering strategies stemming from Executive team vision and formed through partnership with peer Leaders

• Provide engineering support, including line expansion, to Operations with a high level of customer service

• Empower engineering teams to develop, implement, and monitor processes and equipment for manufacture of products to achieve cost effectiveness and product quality

• Facilitate robust troubleshooting of problems to determine root causes and implement sustained solutions

• Service Manufacturing Engineering needs within a global, multidisciplinary workforce

• Mentor and develop cross-functional team members with the mentality that their success is your success

• Support supplier management processes and maintain strong relationships with suppliers

What You’ll Bring:

• 11+ years of related experience required

• 6+ years of engineering management experience required

• A Bachelor's degree in an engineering or related field

• Experience in medical device industry strongly preferred

• A passion for growing and developing high impact teams

• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment where navigating grey areas is a welcomed challenge

• A strong track record of guiding and fostering top performance among team members

• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills, along with proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other computer applications

Working Conditions

• General office environment.

• Willingness and ability to work on site.

• May have business travel from 0% - 10%

• Potential exposure to blood-borne pathogens

• Requires some lifting and moving of up to15 pounds

• Must be able to move between buildings and floors.

• Must be able to remain stationary and use a computer or other standard office

equipment, such as a printer or copy machine, for an extensive period of time each day.

• Must be able to read, prepare emails, and produce documents and spreadsheets.

• Must be able to move within the office and access file cabinets or supplies, as needed.

• Must be able to communicate and exchange accurate information with employees at all

levels on a daily basis.

Roseville, CA

Starting Base Salary is $ 190,930 /year - $ 256,290 /year.

Individual compensation will vary over time-based on factors such as performance, skill level, competencies, work location and shift.