Site Director

About the Position

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. We are seeking a Site Director based out of our site in Middleton, WI, to lead 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the site, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, customer commitments, and long-term business priorities.
• 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.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, operations management, engineering, life sciences, manufacturing, supply chain management, or a related discipline-or an equivalent combination of applicable education and relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading site-wide operations with accountability for business performance, customer outcomes, operational effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and financial results.
• Significant leadership experience in a complex operational environment with demonstrated success building, developing, and motivating high-performing teams, including experience leading managers and developing future leaders.
• Comprehensive knowledge of operational management principles and best practices within manufacturing, laboratory, service, distribution, or other regulated operational environments.
• Proven ability to develop and execute strategic plans that align organizational objectives with operational priorities and sustainable business growth.
• Advanced business and financial acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, capital planning, and performance management.
• Strong understanding of quality systems, regulatory requirements, workplace safety, risk management, and compliance standards applicable to the business and industry.
• Demonstrated success leading organizations through change, transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives while maintaining employee engagement and business continuity.
• Proven ability to utilize data, key performance indicators, and business insights to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, drive accountability, and achieve organizational objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Business Administration (e.g., MBA) or related field.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, or equivalent operational excellence certification.
• Experience leading multiple sites, business units, or geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience supporting commercial growth, capacity expansion, mergers, acquisitions, or large-scale organizational change initiatives.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation with strong bonus program.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents.
• FSA/HSA Pre-tax savings plans for health care, childcare, and elder care.
• Deductible Buffer Insurance and Critical Illness Insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching employer contribution.
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability, life insurance, and employee assistance program.
• Flexible work options.
• Pet Insurance for our furry friends.
• 8 weeks of Parental Leave for qualifying life events.
• PTO that begins immediately.
• Town Hall monthly meeting onsite/virtual, Cheer program where employees are recognized for outstanding work, Company wide social events, frequent catered lunches and much more!

About the Company

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Our high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality, and range.

Our tools play a key role in customer workflows from discovery applications through to commercial manufacture and enable its customers to: bring new diagnostics and therapies to market; progress research and development; optimize food production; and continuously monitor and enhance the quality of food, the environment, and consumer products.

LGC’s 175+ years of scientific heritage, combined with a track record of innovation and value-enhancing acquisitions, has enabled the company to build its product portfolio and expertise, and develop deep relationships with customers, industry partners, and the global scientific community. Join us and help us achieve our mission of Science for a Safer World!

Our kit and component manufacturing sites are situated across the US (Middleton, Petaluma, and Novato) and Europe (Berlin and Lystrup) and are underpinned by either ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 compliance. These capabilities support a wide portfolio of off-the-shelf components and kits critical to NGS workflows including magnetic beads, oligos, enzymes, and library prep kits. Additionally, our primary manufacturing capabilities enable customization and bulk (OEM) manufacture of reagents such as key NGS enzymes for high volume applications.