Engineering Maintenance & Utilities Senior Specialist

Job Description

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity with a rapidly growing pharmaceutical manufacturer? If so, then this is the opportunity for you!

Our Quality Assurance group ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored and distributed aligned with our incredibly high standards of quality and meets all regulatory requirements. Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers and suppliers we create an interdependent global manufacturing network dedicated to deliver a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

Summary, Focus and Purpose

As a member of the Engineering, Maintenance, & Utility Department, the Engineering Maintenance & Utilities Senior Specialist is accountable for the management of maintenance and reliability engineers supporting manufacturing areas. This group is responsible for improving asset reliability and manufacturing capacity by providing technical support in the field on engineering resolution of manufacturing mechanical, electrical or automation problems, processes in compliance with GMP, safety, and environmental regulations and for the development of objectives and projects and upon approval, implements by self or subordinates.

Key Functions

• Reports to the Associate Director, Engineering, Maintenance, & Utilities, working with independent judgment and minimal supervision, and serving in the Manager's absence

• Maintains an effective organization via appropriate employee involvement, communications, and principle centered leadership

• Candidate promotes the development and accountability of all employees

• Establishes clear expectations and objectives to guide area and employees' performance and provides timely feedback, training, and coaching

• Uses technical knowledge to support manufacturing area goals, assuring the efficient operation of variety of processing equipment for the following: Preventive/Predictive maintenance processes and precision maintenance | Root cause failure analysis to prevent recurrence | Process equipment change control | Quality deviation investigations

• Ensures equipment is maintained in accordance with all cGMP, safety, and environmental regulations

• Participates in audits and training programs in the area of responsibility

​Education

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering or Bachelor or Master of Science in Engineering, Science or Four Year Engineering Technology degree

Required

• Six years in manufacturing or technical support group or equivalent

• Principled verbal and written communications

• Proficient in the following competencies: empowering leadership, flexibility, motivation, teamwork/collaboration, problem-solving, communication, and computer skills

• Knowledge and expertise in the application of engineering standards (i.e. ASME, IEEE, NFPA, CFR 1910, NIST, and/or ANSI)

Preferred

• Working Knowledge of cGMP for pharmaceutical and/or vaccine manufacturing

• Lean Six Sigma Methodology

• Root Cause Analysis

• Failure Mode Effects Analysis

• Knowledge in reliability engineering (including asset life cycle management)

• Computerized Management Maintenance Systems SAP

• CMRP certification

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that’s devoted to delivering a high-quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions. If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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Requisition ID:R219522