Based out of the company's site in Middleton, WI, the Site Director is responsible for the overall leadership, performance, and strategic direction of the site. This role serves as the senior operational leader, ensuring that site business goals are met through direct oversight of teams in production, lab services, quality control, and process development. The Site Director partners closely with cross-functional leaders across multiple teams to ensure the successful delivery of products and services while maintaining compliance with quality, safety, regulatory, and financial requirements. As directed by leadership, this individual may oversee operations for more than one operational site.

In partnership with respective HR, operational leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders, this individual is expected to foster a positive work environment and a high-performance culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer satisfaction.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each of the following essential functions satisfactorily:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the site, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, customer commitments, and long-term business priorities while serving as the senior leadership representative for site operations
• Lead and oversee all site operations to ensure the safe, compliant, efficient, and profitable delivery of products and services while meeting quality, regulatory, and customer expectations
• Develop and execute site business and operational strategies that drive operational excellence, scalability, productivity, and sustainable growth
• Build and sustain a high-performing culture that promotes employee engagement, accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement across all functions
• Lead talent and organizational development initiatives within respective team and business function, including workforce planning, succession management, recruitment, coaching, performance management, and leadership development to ensure organizational capability and readiness
• Ensure adherence to all applicable quality, safety, environmental, regulatory, and company requirements, fostering a culture of compliance, risk management, and operational integrity
• Manage site financial performance, including budgeting, resource allocation, capital planning, cost management, and profitability improvement initiatives to achieve business objectives
• Drive continuous improvement and business transformation efforts through data-driven decision making, process optimization, innovation, and operational excellence methodologies that improve efficiency, quality, and customer experience
• Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, resolve operational challenges, manage risk, and support the successful execution of strategic initiatives
• Monitor, evaluate, and communicate site performance, utilizing key operational, financial, quality, customer, and people metrics to drive accountability, informed decision-making, and achievement of business results