Technical Support Group Lead, Innovative Medicine Project Delivery (USA)

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Project Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s).

• USA Req#: R-034805

• Switzerland Req#: R-035481

• Belgium/Netherlands/Ireland/Italy Req#: R-035484

The Technical Support Group (TSG) is a key engineering specialist group providing technical support, global standards, global processes, subject matter expertise and governance to the Innovative Medicines (IM) Project Delivery (PD) team. The IMPD team is responsible for delivering technical support to all capital projects, including all green field and brown field builds for Innovative Medicines. The TSG is responsible for setting the technical direction for these projects, based on leading edge industry and regulatory standards. The TSG are responsible for governing the adoption of these leading-edge industry standards. The TSG is also responsible for governing the external manufacturing assessment program.

The Technical Support Group Lead is responsible for leading a team of industry experts in Biotherapeutics, Synthetics, Advanced Therapies and Medicinal Products; to deliver a standard end to end technical support for capital projects from concept to handover, encompassing the following key areas:

• Facility business need

• Facility design

• Facility construction, commissioning and handover

• Facility process validation

• Asset management readiness

• Project management operations and governance

Responsibilities:

• Define and deploy a vision and strategy for a standard technical approach, for all IM capital projects.

• Oversee the creation of all necessary Facility and Equipment processes and standards; to ensure the safe, compliant and reliable transition from project build phase to start-up phase – from design to construction to commissioning to handover to operations and maintenance.

• Provide end to end expert engineering technical support and guidance to capital projects from concept to handover; in the key areas of facility business need, facility design, construction, commissioning and process validation; for strategic green field and brown field Innovative Medicines facilities.

• Provide guidance and overarching technical leadership in Facility & Equipment design.

• Oversee the creation of all necessary asset management engineering standards and processes; to ensure the safe, compliant and reliable transition from project build phase to operations phase, to support a smooth transition of new equipment projects to end users.

• Provide leadership and oversight to the site asset management functions, including creating a vision, a strategy, an operating model and an operating budget.

• Provide technical support to the setup of asset management organizational structures, business processes, procedures, technology and systems including CMMS, data management, 5-year asset management plan, smart condition based and predictive maintenance philosophy.

• Incorporate IM Managing Assets and FM Hard Services requirements into one cohesive site asset management approach.

• Work across the project team and the end state site engineering team, to ensure both teams integrate and work closely during the project phase, ensuring constant collaboration and a seamless handover from project to operations.