Sr Site Director, Coralville

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Our team at Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), is united by a commitment to collaboration and scientific excellence, building on a strong foundation of innovation, expertise, and reliability. Guided by our vision to help researchers rapidly move from the lab to life-changing advances, we work closely with global partners to accelerate progress and genomics breakthroughs across fields like cancer, infectious disease, rare genetic disorders, and more. At IDT, you’ll be part of a culture rooted in continuous learning and improvement—where your growth fuels our mission to accelerate the pace of genomics and helps shape a healthier, brighter future for all.

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The Senior Site Director is responsible for manufacturing operations at the Coralville site supporting the Custom Oligos, NGS and CRISPR business units. A successful candidate defines the overall operations strategy, structure, and processes to ensure customer requirements are met for products for the assigned business units at the Coralville, Iowa site.   S/he will work within the site to drive effective and sustainable processes around Safety, Manufacturing Operations, Quality Control, and Operational employee engagement; partners with supply chain, platform engineering and DBS leaders to optimize flow, drive capacity growth, and support new product introductions.

This position reports to the Vice President, Global Operations and is part of the Manufacturing Department, located in Coralville, IA and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Partner with Operations Leadership, Commercial and BU leadership to align and provide consistent leadership to ensure effective and efficient execution of assigned projects and growth initiatives. Drive an engaging team culture through leading the Operations team to achieve delivery of distinctively high-quality products and services; to include performance, reliability, cost, and on-time delivery. Identify and close skill gaps in the Operations teams while also guiding and mentoring.
• Develops and monitors performance goals and metrics to ensure a culture of continuous improvement.
• Accountable for promoting and deploying Danaher Business Systems (DBS) to achieve break-through performance in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.  Actively manage a DBS kaizen funnel to provide visibility of events, focus on gap closure, and sustainment.
• Ensures conformance to quality standards by creating and maintaining SW and training strategies.
• Communicates with all levels of peers and management.

• Other duties as assigned by the Sr. VP, Global Operations or other members of executive management.
• Demonstrates and upholds behavior consistent with the Integrated DNA Technologies Core Values and delivers the Integrated DNA Technologies experience to customers and other business associates.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• BS degree in business, engineering, or other related discipline.
• 10+ years people management experience, directly and indirectly leading organizations of 10 or more individuals, globally.
• Candidates must have experience with successful implementation of Lean Manufacturing principles and practices. 
• Consistently makes timely decisions even in the face of complexity, balancing systematic analysis with decisiveness.
• Innovative thinker and creative problem solver.
• Strong influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Convey information with clarity and directness, ensuring the message is understood across diverse, global teams.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Willingness to travel (international and domestic) up to 10% in support of project and business development efforts, and in support of professional development.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Management, Operations Management, and/or technical field preferred.
• Experience in a diagnostics manufacturing environment highly preferred
• Experience within a matrixed, global organization preferred.

IDT, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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