Head of Maintenance

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, growing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.

The state-of-the-art multi-purpose manufacturing facility is crafted for large-scale production of biologics and has high expansion potential. After completion of construction activities, our site in Lengnau will offer highly flexible biomanufacturing technologies, from development to large-scale production including stainless steel equipment to meet our customer needs.

For our site in Lengnau we search for

Head of Maintenance & Facilities

As Head of Maintenance & Facilities â you are responsible for management of Maintenance & Facilities Team to ensure reliable and safe operation of all the facilities and for establishing and adapting a flexible maintenance strategy. You are an active member of the Engineering Leadership Team and define the site engineering strategy.

Your responsibilities:

• In line with the Lengnau site strategy owns the Maintenance  & Facilities Department to ensure the balanced technical operation, the efficient incident handling, cost effective maintenance activities, on duty and GxP-conform Maintenance & Utilities activities of the process plants and of the plant inventory at the site
• Represents Maintenance & Facilities during GMP audits and inspections
• In charge as Maintenance Specialist / Maintenance Coordinator/Plant Engineer. Ensures the coordination between maintenance and project activities
• Ensures a culture of continuous improvement and development of technologies within the Maintenance & Facilities department
• Ensures availability and capacity of all process plants and of the plant inventory to meet required product output
• Responsible for compliance of all Maintenance & Facilities activities with GMP requirements and specifications
• Approves all required SOPâs needed to run and maintain all process plants and all plant inventory Supports and implements alternative maintenance strategies when applicable
• Ensures all the employees are working according to all the SOPâs in place needed to run and maintain all Plant/Clean Utilities
• Develops and updates Key Performance Indicators to demonstrate adequate availability and quality of all process plants
• Drafts project proposals for upgrades and expansions of process plants and plant inventory aligned with growth and replacement strategy for the annual CAPEX budget

Your qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in an Engineering field or local equivalent, MBA preferred
• More than 7 years of engineering experience in a pharmaceutical operations, including familiarity with regulatory compliance ·
• Excellent command of German and English (oral and writing)
• Efficiency and simplification attitude with consistent record of optimizing organizations and culture to hard-working non-hierarchical organization
• Experience in empowering organizations, developing talent and future leaders, and crafting an agile & team with multifaceted strengths
• Reliability excellence (TPM) experience to optimize asset management. Developing operator asset care concept together with maintenance
• Additional Requirements · Travel 10%

What we offer

You can expect a multifaceted job in a dynamic and international environment. A culture in which you live integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation. A well-founded induction and task-specific training are a matter of course for us. You yourself determine your future in our company â make your contribution to joint success

When your part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, youâll 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 youâll be supported in achieving your career goals

As an employer, Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to equal opportunity and cultural minority support and does not discriminate based on ethnic origin, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or legally protected status.

Interested?

Then apply online with the usual documents including possible start date and salary expectations. (up to a maximum of 2 MB)

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