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Position Summary

The Senior Facilities Engineer is responsible for providing engineering, qualification, and maintenance support to both GMP and non-GMP utilities, HVAC, and electrical systems at the Libertyville, IL site.

Key Responsibilities

• System ownership responsibilities for site-based utility, electrical, and HVAC systems; including but not limited to water-for-injection, water pre-treatment, chillers, boilers, compressed gases, plant steam/condensate, wastewater, biowaste inactivation, air handling units, clean rooms, HEPA Filtration including testing requirements, cold rooms, switchgear, emergency generators, cooling towers, fire protection, and control systems.

• Provides hands-on support and oversight of installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of assets and systems which support the manufacturing facility.

• Owns and manages changes to the facility and utility equipment to maintain equipment in a validated state. Creates, reviews, and approves critical documentation such as operational procedures, maintenance plans, engineering drawings, and equipment specifications.

• Leads investigation of non-conformance events and alarm management processes associated with equipment, facility and utility systems.

• Reviews complex equipment related issues and develops sound engineering solutions to address identified problems. Participates in all FDA and internal audits of the manufacturing facilities and process equipment and responds to any observations received.

• Maintains quality standards to meet GMP requirements, CFRs, and internal company policies with respect to equipment and systems.

• Independently leads and/or provide SME-level support on all phases of projects, from identification to close out. Ensures new equipment is appropriately designed/commissioned/qualified and existing processes run in a compliant manner throughout the equipment lifecycle.

• Provide oversight to equipment vendors and external service providers on behalf of the Technical Services team. 

• Drives operational excellence and continuous improvement on all utility and facility systems at the site level.

• Uses operational excellence techniques to identify and implement utility efficiencies and reduce failure modes at the site level. Collaborates with cross-functional team members to support operational excellence and support achievement of all site objectives.

• Leads definition and optimization of equipment qualification strategy at the site level. 

• May lead small teams to advance facility and equipment changes in line with strategic plans.

• Applies knowledge of engineering principles and best practices to ensure robust solutions. Develops an understanding of current and future manufacturing processes and translate these into the facility and equipment requirements at the manufacturing site.

• Leads efforts to evaluate implementation of new technologies across the manufacturing utility systems.

• Actively monitors equipment performance in compliance with site reliability and maintenance strategies.

• Collaborates with operations and manufacturing sciences to evaluate new product introductions and facility fit evaluations.

• Provides mentorship to other site engineers.

• Develops and implements equipment reliability and maintenance strategies that are compliant, effective and cost appropriate.

• Leads small internal teams to help optimize engineering systems and processes.

• Drives consistency across manufacturing sites in alignment with global standards.

• Provides industry wide expertise in complex equipment and facility investigations.

• Other related duties as assigned

Qualifications & Experience

• B.S. degree in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or related technical degree, with 8 years’ experience providing maintenance, automation, engineering, or equivalent support within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or related industry

• OR associate degree/Diploma/Certification in Engineering Technology or Related Skilled Technical Field, with 10 years’ work experience providing maintenance, automation, engineering, or equivalent support within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or related industry.

• OR Equivalent work experience (12 years) experience providing maintenance, automation, engineering, or equivalent support within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or related industry.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Strong technical writing ability required. Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.

• Ability to work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation.

• Excels in a team environment, with excellent communication and organizational skills. Promotes information sharing, facilitates groups to ensure open discussion.

• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

• Strong project management skill set with ability to manage projects from start-to-end. Applied knowledge of root cause analysis, equipment troubleshooting, automated building management systems, and industrial PLCs.

• Knowledge of cGMP, GxP, GAMP, SDLC regulations, including 21CFR part 11, computer systems validation requirements and good documentation practices.

• Advanced knowledge of pharmaceutical, manufacturing and laboratory systems and equipment.

• Implements scheduling fundamentals and execution.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with experience dealing with a diverse workforce where individual initiative, accountability to the team, and professional maturity are required.

• Strong multi‐tasking ability in conjunction with proven organizational skills.  Ability to organize assigned tasks in a high paced environment and concurrently monitor tasks / assignments with others that may impact timely completion. Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and activities simultaneously.

• Highly proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook with extensive background in database systems. Innate ability to learn new software, such as corporate intranet and enterprise business.

• Ability to create and analyze meaningful metrics.

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On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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