Manager, Mfg Equipment Maintenance

Thermo Fisher Scientific-Hoogkerk, Holanda

Job Description:
Manager **Maintenance

Location/Division Specific Information

The Groningen site is a multi-product and multi-client biopharmaceutical site with development and manufacturing facilities for pharmaceutical products for clinical trials (phase 1, 2 and 3) and commercial production. Our company values performance, quality, and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization one is encouraged to perform at your best.

How will you make an impact?

We are hiring a manager maintenance to join and lead our maintenance and calibration (M&C) team in the engineering department. The job holder will ensure the scheduling and support of Maintenance and Calibration objectives. Ownership and accountability for the assigned responsibilities will ensure a positive impact on the team and on the site. To do well in this role you should have significant technical knowledge and expertise in the field of calibration, maintenance, facilities, and utilities, delivering results on Safety, Quality, and Quantity, as well being experienced in team leadership and people management. You will be a role model and leader for the technicians and the engineers.

What will you do?

The job holder’s main accountability is to maintain the maintenance and calibration compliant state of the installations, instruments, equipment and facilities of the site. This includes, among other, calibration, preventative maintenance
- and corrective maintenance schedule adherence, planning and oversight.

Main responsibilities include the handling of deviations, investigations, change requests, change assessments, CAPA’s, internal-, regulatory and client audits, and root cause analysis, review of workorders, administration and training related to the computerized maintenance system, if required: engineering projects.

The job holder is also responsible for achieving the M&C schedule, critical metrics, and reporting of deviations and issues; achieving assigned departmental goals in engineering, which is in line with the site and goals of the company; to ensure that activities in the maintenance and calibration department within the Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporate guidelines, systems, and requirements, EH&S requirements, within quality and regulatory requirements; for continuous improvement initiatives for increased efficiency and/or costs reduction; for budget support, cost consciousness and cost reduction in the department.

Responsible for making and implementing the Maintenance & Calibration plan for Thermo Fisher Scientific Groningen in line with business needs and strategy:

  • Set strategic goals for the department, which are in line with the corporate goals;
  • Responsible for the yearly plans of the department;
  • Formulate, get approval and manage the yearly cost budget for the department;
  • Judge and define investment proposals for the department, get approval and manage investments;
  • Responsible for cost reduction in fixed costs within the department;
  • Responsible for cost consciousness in variable cost within the department;
  • Responsible for monitoring of the Key Operating Parameters of the department.

The job holder is also responsible for general site and team EHS performance and budget development and adherence.

What do you have?

Minimal HBO level, or higher vocational education, BSc or equivalent level through education, and/or training, experience in engineering or equivalent.

Good command of English, both in oral and written communication.

Preferable experienced in the Biotech/ Biopharma/ cGMP environment, engineering or maintenance fields. Knowledge of calibration, facilities, automation, or biotechnology. Experience with a computerized maintenance system is a pre.

Interpersonal skills that are required include: Proactive demeanor, good socially adept, eye for detail, timeliness, reliable and integrity in all aspects.