West Pharma Sr Mgr Manufacturing Engineer 

United States, North Carolina 

197616001

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the local Engineering team (set objectives, guide, and engage the team, train, follow-up, provide feedback, prepare appraisal, and manage performance and delivery).
• As a key member of the site senior leadership team. Provide direction, guidance, for the Engineering function and critical input into overall site strategic vision, culture.
• Manage and provide sound engineering support with hands on expertise and practices in projects from conception through production. Interact with engineering, management, site and corporate team members and/or vendors to develop engineering specifications for new equipment or required process improvements; produce, modify, and maintain drawings; maintain project timelines; continuously evaluate projects from the tasks, resource and costs perspective, ensure delivery of the projects on time and within budget; and actively install, start-up, and validate equipment or tooling.
• Provide engineering guidance to assure plant, machinery, and processes are optimized.
• Manage and coordinate plant and capital projects, properly document work, and maintain history of projects in appropriate project files.
• Research and analyze data such a vendor design proposal, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application
• Provide plant maintenance services to support operations and manufacturing and deliver service and performance in line with company targets & standards.
• Oversee and direct maintenance personnel to manage plant & equipment maintenance for reactive and planned works. Deliver preventative maintenance schedule to improve technical availability of assets in line with company targets.
• Responsible for developing people and training to maximize operational equipment uptime, implement new technologies and apply best practice in maintenance methods and systems
• Inspect and evaluate physical plant and related equipment to manage asset life cycle in support of operations.
• Coordinate with outside contractors to perform service activities, repairs, preventive maintenance on plant and equipment
• Utilise strategic planning approach to continue to evolve the site towards an agreed future state.
• Oversee and direct provision of all related maintenance supplies, plant spare parts.
• Lead and foster an environment of continuous improvement and providing leadership in this area by identifying and implementing lean, efficiency, cost reduction, quality, and service level improvements
• Mange the teams’ performance, conduct performance reviews, recruit team, put in place training and development plans, addressing any issues that arise in a timely manner.
• Monitor workload and manage resources to support company targets.
• To ensure that all necessary regulatory service, permits, permissions, registers & calibrations certifications are controlled & up to date.
• Ensures work and equipment compliance, certification to all related regulatory & statutory directives, standards & guidance’s.
• Take a lead role in the introduction and development of maintenance strategies and management systems company-wide.
• Manage and coordinate competing priorities with key stake holders to maximise plant performance and availability.
• Direct the communication of all planned and unplanned works with key stake holders in timely manner.
• Limit impact of any plant failure to key stake holders by communicating and reacting responsibly and in prompt and efficient manner.
• Maintains plant & equipment to ensure that it operates efficiently while delivering this service on time, on budget and in a safe and responsible manner without adverse impact to site performance.
• Plan and maintain all relevant equipment’s to schedule and budget plan.
• Deliver to set KPI performance level as per requirements
• Demonstrates the leadership and commitment with respect to the quality management system and with respect to customer focus as outlined in the ISO9001/15378 standards.
• Act in accordance with the company’s Guiding Principles and adherence to the corporate Code of Conduct
• Compliance to all local site Environmental, Health and Safety regulations
• Compliance to all local site company policies, procedures, and corporate policies

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s in engineering or other related discipline

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 8+ years’ experience in a maintenance / engineering role within the manufacturing industry, preferably in rubber or pharmaceutical operations.
• Good knowledge of LEAN and 6 sigma manufacturing principles
• Experience with continuous improvement of processes and validations of processes/equipment
• cGMP experience
• Self-motivated, results- and solution-oriented personality.
• Ability to combine and apply modern engineering / maintenance and manufacturing concepts to meet complex tasks.
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good organizational and management skills.
• Ability to successfully collaborate with all levels within the organizational.
• Excellent written and communication skills - regularly presents on KPI’s, benchmarking results to all management levels.
• Proficient in planning to maximize resources and reduce expenditure.