Facilities and Engineering APU Lead

Job Title: Facilities and Engineering APU Lead

Location: Framingham, MA

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

This organization is responsible for providing Facilities, Engineering and Maintenance support for all cGMP process and utility systems at Framingham MA Campus, maintaining these systems in a validated state of control and ensuring uninterrupted business continuity.  This organization is also responsible for shared GMP and non GMP systems on the Framingham campus as defined by Service Level Agreements and this role will support key campus stakeholders including but not limited to Research & Development, Science, Global Manufacturing Sciences and Technology.  This organization is also responsible for non GMP maintenance of buildings on the Framingham campus in conjunction with North America Sanofi Business services (SBS) and is the main group interfacing with SBS.

This position will serve as the Facilities and Engineering leader in one of the site’s APU’s (Autonomous Production Units).  In this role, the leader will serve on the APU leadership team, managing the daily operations of the APU, and will be the key interface to the larger F&E organization.  In this role, the leader will be responsible for monitoring and directing the Engineering and Maintenance needs of the business unit including issue resolution/leadership, corrective, preventive, and predictive/monitoring maintenance, audit readiness, cGMP compliance, capital investment recommendations, and adherence to established site schedules.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Select, develop, and motivate qualified staff to effectively conduct department activities, support site strategic projects and provide for the continuity of managerial and specialized skills

• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to staff consistent with cGMP and corporate quality governance

• Coach and mentor staff in all aspect of their job performance and career development including training, feedback, rewards and disciplinary action.  Approve timecards, as appropriate, set and approved annual priorities and individual development plans, conduct 1:1’s and provide mid/end of year reviews.

• Initiate and / or complete deviations, CAPAs, HSE CAPAs, root cause analysis and HSE event reports.

• Responsible for the performance against applicable department metrics including schedule adherence, PM On-Time, labor utilization, etc. This includes forecasting, headcount, and spend tracking for all applicable facilities budgets. Ensure all required facility shutdowns are planned and executed to address required preventive maintenance, upgrades, and capital investment

• Ensure that required environmental conditions in responsible facilities are maintained through collaboration with the Quality Group

• Support department, FFO, and Site mid and long-range strategic planning and drive efficiencies through continuous process improvement initiatives.

• Support network development and alignment by participating in the establishment and sharing of best practices with other site(s) or APUs.

• Lead cross functional teams (GEMBAs) and use problem solving to improve communication and right first-time performance.  Perform process confirmations to ensure compliance with existing standards.

• Work in a collaborative team environment and interact with other support groups such as HSE, Engineering, Facilities, Validation, Quality Assurance and Supply Chain.

• Complete all HSE specific tasks including field audits, Safe Work Permits, Managerial Safety Visits (MSV’s) and event reporting and investigations. Support internal/external audits as required

• Communication across organizational and functional boundaries to build effective cross functional operational teams

• Support the development and management of predictive and preventive maintenance philosophy in parallel with the site’s reliability centered maintenance program.  

• Write/revise accurate operational procedures, training documents and maintenance procedures for various utility systems

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