When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How will you make an impact?

Directs all engineering, maintenance, utility and building operations, metrology, facility planning, and capital projects in a state-of-the-art GMP microbial manufacturing facility. The Sr. Manager, Engineering is accountable for achieving business objectives that ensure that work schedules are adhered to, costs are contained, and work is performed in a manner that is compliant with government regulations.

What will you do?

• Oversees all preventative, predictive, corrective and emergency maintenance work for the site. This includes trouble-shooting of manufacturing, and utility operations ensuring reliability of equipment and instrument calibration, efficient utilization of maintenance resources, adherence to uniform policy practices amongst the site maintenance groups and cGMP compliance. This also includes sourcing of maintenance materials and outside purchased maintenance and appropriate inventory levels of spare parts and materials.
• Ensures the delivery of reliable utilities, which include steam, electric, compressed air, water, tower water, chilled water, well water, etc. to the site customers in a cost effective manner in order to keep the plant running. Responsible for power co-generation facilities.
• Directs the activities of engineering, maintenance and utilities personnel, managing departmental operating and capital budgets, site capital budget planning and tracking.
• Oversees development of an integrated site, utilities, infrastructure, space allocation master plans and the implementation of strategic objectives compatible with those of the functional groups on the site.
• Develops and implements capital plans, which includes defining scope with customers, design and detailed engineering, project cost estimation, submitting appropriate justification and funding requests, and adhering to cGMP, budget, schedule, safety, and quality commitments.
• Ensures continuous monitoring and responding to all HVAC, refrigeration, stability chamber, alarm conditions, and instituting corrective measures per specific SOP’s. Delivers lean utilities to classified and restricted manufacturing areas on a 24/7 schedule.
• Oversee process engineers who will be responsible for supporting manufacturing operations. Including tech transfer, validation, process design, equipment management, trouble shooting, SOP development, and commissioning.
• Works closely with the engineering parter at the business unit level to accomplish goals.

How will you get here?

• BS or MS in Engineering. MBA a plus
• Specific training in biotechnology/pharmaceutical engineering practices, guidelines, validation principles, management practices, cGMP utility maintenance and operations.
• Microbial or Mammalian manufacturing experience highly desired
• 15 years experience in biopharmaceutical/pharmaceutical processing industry and 8-10 years progressive management experience in engineering services organizations. Large capital project experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Leads a team of 5-10 direct reports including including maintenance and metrology, process engineers, project engineers, facilities/site services, contractors such as security, cleaning, etc.
• Decisions around the prioritization and assignment of work flow within the engineering services group. Response to utility and equipment failures in support of 24/7 production operations.
• Leads in the development of options and decision making on site master planning issues. Decisions on human resources issues when made within the departments approved budgetary guidelines.
• Responsible for forecasting the operating and capital budgets for the coming years. Administers the process within the section so that individual department budgets are compatible within the overall guidelines. Responsible for submitting the final section consolidated budget for approval.
• Annual operating budget for the section is approximately $8MM, capital spending for the customer groups served are approximately $5-10MM, maintain physical assets valued in excess of $75MM.
• Supervision is provided by the Director of Operations, through personal contact, periodic staff meetings, Gemba walks, and 1-on-1 meetings. Personal contact is usually on an as-needed basis. Published monthly highlights which include written summaries and metrics are reviewed monthly. Individual performance is reviewed annually and compared against written goals and objectives. 
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