Director, Process Engineering

About Dexcom

Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM), develops and markets Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems for ambulatory use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers for the treatment of people with diabetes. The company is the leader in transforming diabetes care and management by providing CGM technology to help patients and healthcare professionals better manage diabetes. Since the company’s inception, Dexcom has focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions that are best in class - while empowering the community to take control of diabetes. Dexcom reported full-year 2022 revenues of $2.9B, a growth of 18% over 2021. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company employs over 8,000 people worldwide.

Meet the team:

The Director, Manufacturing Engineering leads an engineering team which provides support to Dexcom's internal manufacturing lines located in Mesa, Az. Oversees the activities related to the technical support and sustaining engineering functions in a high velocity, fast paced product manufacturing site. Partners with multiple functions for overall site growth and development. Plans and directs implementation of equipment and process modifications to improve production efficiencies, manufacturing techniques and production yields for existing products. Acts as engineering liaison with product design and development to ensure processes and designs are compatible. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. Close collaboration occurs between Dexcom’s internal and external manufacturing facilities to identify cost-saving and continuous improvement opportunities, and drive process improvements.

Where you come in:

• Be part of leadership team that will lead the site through collaboration and people-focused strategies
• Act as a coach and mentor for direct reports and teams, with opportunities for coaching across the organization
• Works on complex problems in which analysis or situations or date requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Ensures budgets, schedules, and performance requirements are met.
• Responsible for ensuring that department is committed to and conforms to the company quality system procedures as documented.
• Sets goals, establishes priorities, manages resources, develops concept and approaches, reviews projects progress and results, and makes management decisions.
• Supervises subordinate personnel including hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching, initiating corrective or disciplinary actions, and establishing and sustaining long-term human resources and skill requirements for the engineering or operations teams.
• Increases the overall productivity of the engineering or operations organization as evidenced by lower cost, higher quality solutions provided on time.
• Establishes overall direction while creating and implementing a vision for continual improvement of engineering and operations services at a detail level as well as higher organizational level; work with others to establish methodologies to resolve process issues.
• Provides people leadership focused upon personal and collective accountability while fostering an environment that enhances personal growth and career development through mentoring and training; performance management and challenging the organization to strive for higher performance levels.
• Builds a reputation for the engineering or operations organization of high integrity, competitive leadership, and sustained performance by delivering quality product on a timely basis.
• Ensures all engineering or operations projects, initiatives, and processes conform to all applicable requirements and specifications imposed by the company, the customer and/or the industry.
• Develops clear and effective performance metrics for the engineering or operations organization, as well as individuals, measuring the effectiveness; uses metric trends and data to drive the business and decisions therein.
• Manages engineering or operations issues by acting as the primary liaison with other members of management, engineering, manufacturing, clinical and regulatory, quality assurance, quality control, and marketing.
• Directly responsible for implementation and maintenance of engineering or operations department procedures. Reports on the performance of engineering or operations. Plans and maintains departmental budget for the effective operation of the department.
• This position assumes and performs other duties as required

What makes you successful:

• Experience in medical device or related field
• People and collaboration focused
• Viewed as a subject matter expert within specific area
• Reviews objectives to determine success of operation. Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies that affect immediate operations and may also have company-wide effect
• Understands relevant business strategies and impact on the functional area

Scope:

• Participates in establishing strategic plans and objectives.
• Provides high-level guidance and support to employees and other managers.
• Regularly interacts with executives and/or external parties on matters effecting the function.
• Oversees policies and procedures for immediate function.
• Recognized as a functional leader within the organization.

Judgement:

• Works on abstract issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the company.
• Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
• Erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional or company operations.

Management:

• Able to operate in complex global environment.
• Manages the activities of a functional area and/or external service providers.
• People management responsibilities include hiring / terminations, performance reviews, career development coaching and compensation decisions.

Workplace Type:

• The Workplace Type for this role is Assigned Desk. Based on the nature of your role you will have an assigned desk or office located at a Dexcom site and should plan to be onsite approximately 4-5 days per week.

Experience and Education

• Typically requires a Bachelors degree with 15+ years of industry experience.
• 9+ years of successful management experience in relevant industry.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $164,200.00 - $273,600.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 11+ years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• In-person
• Manufacturing facility

Work Location: In person