Philip McLellan

Chief Operations Officer | Global Diagnostics & Life Sciences Manufacturing | Lean, Quality, Multi-Site Scale I run the operating system behind high-reliability diagnostics: manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and site network performance at enterprise scale. As Chief Operations Officer at QuidelOrtho, I lead quality, manufacturing, and operations for a global in-vitro diagnostics company (~$2.8B), with accountability for product quality, throughput, cost, and scalable capacity across multiple sites and regions. Focus: high-quality product at industrial efficiency, FDA/ISO/MDR-ready systems, and operations that can absorb growth without breaking. QuidelOrtho: SVP Operations (2020–2024) then COO (2024–present). Led enterprise operations through integration, cost programs, and capacity expansion—including COVID-era scale-up of rapid antigen testing and a new site producing >1B tests annually.Thermo Fisher Scientific (11 years): Global VP of Operations across Laboratory Consumables, Genetic Sciences, and BioProduction. Supply-chain and plant performance work that supported double-digit organic growth, $150M+ capital programs, and the Affymetrix integration (material margin improvement). Safety/culture turnaround including a site with zero lost-time incidents beyond 1M hours.Toyota Motor Manufacturing (~12 years): Global manufacturing and production-preparation roles. Deep Toyota Production System / lean foundation—standard work, flow, quality at source, and process capability at automotive volume and discipline. What I own: End-to-end operations, multi-site manufacturing, quality systems and regulatory readiness, supply chain and network design, lean transformation, capital and capacity planning, cost structure, and leadership of large global operations teams. In-vitro diagnostics | medical devices | life sciences manufacturing | bioproduction | laboratory consumables | genetic analysis | lean manufacturing | Toyota Production System | operational excellence | FDA | ISO 13485 | MDR | multi-site operations | supply chain | quality systems | scaling manufacturing | COO | SVP Operations Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Based in Carlsbad, California.