Why Patients Need You

At Pfizer, we believe that every role contributes to our mission of improving patients' lives. Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting the upkeep of systems, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they need. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll play a pivotal role in accelerating the delivery of medicines to the world.

What You Will Achieve

The role is to provide senior level engineering business partnership to the packaging and manufacturing operations leaders. The role will partner with operations, engineering, maintenance and reliability teams to drive overall Equipment and Process improvement and key strategic projects. The role must demonstrate ability to accomplish large and complex projects independently, provide engineering expertise and lead structured troubleshooting efforts of major equipment and process-related issues. Analyzes process requirements and evaluates equipment and systems to ensure deliverables meet or exceed process specifications and packaging/manufacturing requirements. Evaluates and recommends new process technologies that optimize performance, are cost effective, and will improve product quality and manufacturing processes.

How You Will Achieve It

• Supports the production area throughput and efficiency by driving large scale projects and improvement programs. Will lead transformational change projects that cross functions and production lines.

• Evaluate/monitor and identify downtime and root cause, Change Over and cleaning activities to meet the standard time.

• Leads teams of engineers and professionals to ensure improvement ideas are implemented and track progress on confidence curve.

• Triage and lead RCA for equipment downtime and process failures on the shop floor.

• Manage large and complex engineering projects in operations to include process and equipment redesign and new system implementation.

• Drive and support Reliability improvement initiatives and lead TPM implementation. Will supervise Process Technologist roles.

• Generate required documentation (Change Requests, Commissioning protocols, Plant Trial protocols, Work Orders) to implement process related actions as required.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• High School Diploma (or Equivalent) and 8 years of relevant experience OR an Associate's degree with 6 years of experience OR a Bachelor's with at least 3 years of experience OR Masters with more than 1 year of experience.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and manage complex/large engineering projects.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical shopfloor troubleshooting and problem solving.

• Position requires technical, safety and cGMP training.

Nice-to-Have

• 2+ years of experience in an Aseptic Manufacturing industry.

• Demonstrated leadership experience.

• Experience directly leading the implementation of continuous improvement projects, Operational Excellence and Total Productive Maintenance.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Role supports a 24/7 operation.

• Must be available to provide on-call support during weekends, holidays and after working hours.

• Work Location Assignment: On Premise colleagues work in a Pfizer site because it’s needed to get their job done. They may have flexibility to work remotely from time to time, but they are primarily on-site.

• 1st Shift.

Other Details: 

• Last day to apply: January 16, 2025

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $80,300.00 to $133,900.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 10.0% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any loc