Sr. Specialist, Maintenance Reliability Engineering

Job Description

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified its legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Our Manufacturing Division is a team of dedicated, energetic individuals who are committed to being the most trusted supplier of pharmaceuticals and health products worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, comprise an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

As a member of the Engineering Maintenance & Utilities (EMU) Utilities Reliability Engineering Group, the primary role of the Utilities Reliability Engineer is responsibility for cGMP compliance and reliability for general utilities including compressed air, process compressed gases, chilled water, glycol, steam, potable water, and waste processing within our Manufacturing Division, including product manufacturing and laboratory facilities.  With our extensive range of facilities and environments our engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Qualification/Validation.

This position is a support role for utility systems and will be involved with the utility systems cGMP compliance, troubleshooting, energy optimization and sustainability, system design, and application of the utilities reliability strategy.  Long range capital planning, project management and project execution for related projects will also be required. 

Job technical responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Provides site wide governance with technical and engineering support as a Subject Matter Expert in the field for cGMP compressed air, process compressed gases and non-GMP building utility systems including chilled water, glycol, steam, potable water, waste processing, etc.  The SME will ensure consistency and efficiency in compliance, operation, maintenance, system reliability, and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Establishes strategy documents for system design, operation, and maintenance.

• Performs reliability and business continuity assessments.  Identifies areas for improvement, prioritizes action items, manages improvement projects, and demonstrates continuous improvement.

• Manages equipment obsolescence and capital improvement justifications.  Reviews and approves capital project design, and supports commissioning and start-up activities ranging from documentation to equipment inspection.

• Optimizes equipment maintenance activities including preventive and predictive maintenance programs.  Drives implementation of a consistent maintenance platform in alignment with ongoing initiatives.

• Supports the building utility RBAM process. 

• Serves as liaison with site utility representatives for all utility work.  Coordinates site utility projects with impacted buildings.

• Develops strong relationships with "system stakeholders" to ensure consensus on operational and regulatory compliance issues.  Identify clear levels of ownership and accountability in support of respective systems.

• Supports complex troubleshooting with Engineering Maintenance & Utilities personnel.  Interacts with hourly, salaried and contract employees in routine matters, troubleshooting equipment, automation systems.

• Drives root cause investigations, evaluates, develops, and improves business processes and develops technical rationale for system improvements.  Eliminates repeat problems and reinvented solutions.

• Process lead for the Deviation Management associated with compressed gas systems.

• Interfaces and effectively speaks with regulatory agencies and supports agency inspections.

• Understands and communicates all applicable Divisional Standards/Guidelines, SOPs, and procedures governing the system operation and compliance.  Ensures up-to-date record documentation, including drawings and qualification.

• Coordinates benchmarking and external analysis.  Identify and share best practices and trends, communicate and drive improvement.

• Establishes business process baseline costs, identify key unit costs, and manages against the baseline.

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