Assoc. Dir, Engineering

Job Description

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Engineering, Maintenance and Site Services (EMSS) organization continuously improve the reliability of the Durham Site operations and provides the best in class services with the final goal of delivering our high-quality vaccines to the patients around the world. With our core principle of Safety First and Quality Always EMSS strives to have the safest and most compliant operation around the network.

EMSS has an Associate Director opening for the Bulk Facility (GBF) maintenance team. The selected candidate will manage the engineering, maintenance and calibration activities related to the Purification Suite within this facility. The main equipment within these two Purification trains consist of Homogenization, Microfiltration, Chromatography, Ultrafiltration, Buffer Tanks along with the support equipment prep and clean utilities.

Strong technical and customer service-oriented leader to support the GBF IPT. Will lead the tactical and strategic equipment reliability improvements, human resources activities while ensuring a safe work environment with optimized product quality and manufacturing processes and regulatory compliance.

GENERAL PROFILE

• Provides leadership and direction through individual contributors
• Executes functional business plans and contributes to the development of group strategies
• Priorities based on compliance, departmental budget and profit plan to address resource and operational challenges
• Leverages relationships with key clients and/or customers to support business needs
  
  

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

• Leads Maintenance team for Bulk Production (GBF) Purification area, coaches, technicians and engineers ~12-15 people
• Coaches/mentors direct reports responsible for their area within Engineering, Maintenance & Calibration
• Ensure proper team capabilities with appropriate trainings
• Manage the area succession plan
• Serves a leadership team member for GBF Maintenance
  
  

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

• Manage the GBF Maintenance cost center, including capital spend, creating and managing all profit plans and forecasts throughout the year
  
  

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Responsible for major equipment related projects, including funding, change control and equipment qualification within their area
• Responsible for obtaining bids, reviewing contracts, supervising, and providing follows-up on contract work including the auditing of time and material reports for their area
  
  

SHUTDOWN MANAGEMENT

• Responsible for assisting with master shutdown schedules and shutdown execution including all maintenance, calibration, capital project work, and GMP Cleaning coordination for all facility shutdowns
• Coordinates activities with stakeholders and project owners
• Attends shutdown meetings ensuring activities are tracked and completed
  
  

PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT SUPPORT

• Responsible for the preventive maintenance and calibration programs of all production equipment.
• Daily support of all production equipment to ensure area safety, compliance, production and financial goals are met
• Spare parts risk-based assessments and identification of new parts to replace obsolescent parts to ensure correct type and number of spare parts are available for all production equipment.
• Establishes processes that ensure required Safety guidelines are followed and participates in divisional Safety Audit activities
• Manages equipment location and status in SAP as well as related equipment drawings.
• Assists in deviation investigations for maintenance instruments, equipment, and systems.
• Collaborates/Executes with the reliability engineers periodic RBAM assessments and owns area specific reliability actions
• Collaborates with Automation for maintenance and troubleshooting equipment
• Collaborates with equipment vendors and support functions for responsible areas.
• Monitors calibration, maintenance, and equipment/utilities operations performance by analyzing completed work orders with an emphasis on reducing reactive work and increasing reliability.
• Maintains the integrity of equipment identification and specification data within the computerized calibration and maintenance management system.
• Identifies revisions, deletions, or additions to the calibration and maintenance programs to ensure that calibration and maintenance activities are completed in accordance with established safety, GMP, and calibration/maintenance procedures.
• Monitor KPIs (MTTR, MTBF, Uptime) and ensure its accuracy
  
  

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

• Reports to Engineering and Maintenance Director
• Manages and interacts with employees within own department
• Frequent interaction with employees from other departments
• Interacts with representatives from regulatory agencies
• Interacts with external suppliers
  
  

Education Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science or related technical field
  
  

Required Experience And Skills

• Minimum 8 years of progressive Maintenance leadership experience in cGMP operations (6 Years with a master’s degree or MBA: 3 years with a PhD), or military service (US Navy, US Army, US Marine Corps, US Air Force, US Coast Guard) combined experience in Maintenance Supervision/Management.
• Experience in introducing Reliability Engineering for Maintenance (RCM, FMEA, Criticality Analysis, PM optimization, RCA, etc.)
• Strong planning, scheduling, and time management skills
• Working knowledge regulatory requirements in accordance with cGMP manufacturing operations and demonstrated experience of interacting with site, divisional or regulatory audits/inspections.
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Project management, including change control and equipment qualification
  
  

Preferred Experience And Skills

• 15 years of Maintenance or Military experience in a GMP regulated industry in the Maintenance field.
• SAP experience related to plant maintenance and spare parts procurement systems
• Experience running a Reliability Engineering program.
• At least four years of experience in military service (US Navy, US Army, US Marine Corps, US Air Force, US Coast Guard)
• Working Knowledge of cGMP for pharmaceutical, Sterile and/or Biologics manufacturing
• Experience as a Maintenance Planner and Scheduler, Reliability or Maintenance Engineer, or Utilities Maintenance and Operations Engineer.
  
  

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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship

No

Travel Requirements

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements

Not Applicable

Shift

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License

No

Hazardous Material(s)

n/a

Job Posting End Date

02/21/2025

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Requisition ID:R335236