Steve Scott

Manager - Facilities and Manufacturing Engineering @Baxter International Inc.

CA

Responsible for leading and managing a cross-functional team of engineers, calibration technicians and maintenance technicians - ensuring the team is: working efficiently, delivering on commitments and successfully navigating validation, change control and QA requirements. Demonstration of strong leadership skills, ability to influence, and a passion for getting things done. • Management of environmental, health and safety functions. • Management of engineering resources - allocation of engineering resources to projects appropriately. • Provision of assistance for engineers to balance priorities based on company objectives, change requests, and other unforeseeable circumstances. • Communication and coordination across project teams to minimize dependency conflicts and blockers. • Resolution of project conflicts, issues among teams, and establishment of appropriate resolution paths. • Ensuring the engineering team achieves and maintains a high-level of sustainable performance by implementing and maintaining best practices. • Identification of resourcing needs and running cost-benefit analysis for decisions. • Building and maintaining resourcing models and plans. • Management and tracking of engineering team performance and metrics. • Leadership of reliability reviews and perform failure mode analysis for new assets being developed through capital project process • Trending of maintenance work to identify high cost and high frequency maintenance activities and identify actions to improve reliability • Identification of cost reduction opportunities through extended parts life, reduced labor cost and other cost improvement techniques

University of Redlands

MA, Management

Grand Rapids Community College

AS, Engineering

Michigan Technological University

BS, Mechanical Engineering