Associate Director, Site Engineering

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

This position is responsible for developing, analyzing, leading and executing capital expenditure for Teva SLC (large, strategic, other) with an end-to-end approach. This position will manage critical projects for the sites with a high exposure to global senior management starting from a strategic approach, conceptual design, equipment selection to a detail design, construction management in GMP environments as well as coordinating to all internal teams to drive the project to a successful completion on time, quality and cost.

How you’ll spend your day

All areas of responsibility listed below are essential to the satisfactory performance of this position by any incumbents with reasonable accommodation if necessary. Any non-essential functions are assumed to be included in other related duties or assignments. 

• Responsible for management and development of direct and indirect reports as applicable.
• Responsible for collaborating with the Global Engineering team on creating specifications, managing design firms and local contractors, and permitting for new build construction and its utilities and systems.
• Responsible for collaborating with the Global Engineering team on managing global equipment manufacturers, to build, commission, and validate manufacturing equipment.
• Responsible for managing a project team (workstream leaders) on active project related tasks, purchase orders and budget management.
• Responsible for developing strategies as needed in the areas of preventive maintenance, calibration, installation and operational qualification, change management and engineering by design.
• Responsible for supporting other site initiatives and teams such as engineering, maintenance, health and safety, quality, etc.
• Responsible for CAPEX ideation, initiation, justification, submission, close out and asset assignment with finance.
• Responsible for completing training requirements and maintaining compliance with all assignments.   
• Responsible for maintaining work areas and performing job functions in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with company policies and procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP’s), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), Work Instructions (WI) and Batch Record instructions. 
• Responsible for performing additional related duties as assigned.

Your experience and qualifications

Any equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience that fulfills the requirements of the position will be considered. 

Education/Certification/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a scientific or engineering discipline, or equivalent education/experience.
• 10 years of relevant progressive experience in manufacturing environment, within pharmaceutical or other regulated industry. 
• Minimum 5 years of previous supervisory or other relevant leadership experience.
• Requires experience and knowledge of cGMP and other applicable industry regulatory requirements as they relate to the production of pharmaceutical products, experience with FDA strongly preferred.
• Requires experience with design and construction of GMP spaces (ISO 8 or below)
• Requires experience with sourcing, selection, design and installation of pharmaceutical processing and packaging equipment
• Requires experience with critical facilities systems such as purified water, compressed air, chillers, HVAC, oilers, dehumidification, waste water treatment plants, cleaning in place systems, power systems.
• Requires solid dose manufacturing experience.
• Requires experience managing large capex projects ( +1 MUSD)
• Requires experience with factory acceptance test of equipment overseas
• Requires previous equipment qualification and process validation experience in a regulated environment
• Previous experience with deviation and change management systems
• Requires experience with six sigma, process efficiencies and improvements
• Prefer Any Utility system program certification (Compressed Air / Boilers / HVAC)
• Prefer Experience