Director, Manufacturing Engineering

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Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $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 complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

Group/division summary

The Pharma Services Group (PSG) is redefining the way pharmaceuticals are made with a simplified, end-to-end supply chain for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies of all sizes.

Position summary

The Director, Engineering will operate within the organizational structure to provide direction and management guidance to Capital Engineering, Validation, Utilities, Automation, and Maintenance activities. In addition to leading the development and implementation of technical support strategies, this role sits on the site’s leadership team and interacts with the other directors and site General Manager to realize complimentary overall site strategies that meet the short-term and longer-term goals and objectives. Extensive customer interaction is required related to business development, proposals, opportunities, audits, and regulatory authorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership to their team specifically: leading organizational change; developing and empowering staff; cultivating relationships; putting staff in a position to succeed by facilitating their personal career goals while also achieving organizational goals; building effective teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals; driving engagement and creating a climate where employees are motivated to do their best.
• Set tactical and strategic policy, leadership and direction in engineering, validation, utilities and systems in compliance with SOP’s, GAP’s, cGMP’s and other site procedures.
• Lead the Site Master Planning to assure site can achieve STRAP this includes utility/facility/equipment planning.
• Responsible for site CAPEX planning in a 5-year view and execution. CAPEX in excess of $25M per year investment in the site.
• Build, socialize and deliver on cases for growth, sustainment, compliance and efficiency projects.
• Ensures that all parties interacting with technical support are aligned in shared tactical & strategic approaches.
• Develops capital and expense budgets.
• Ownership of the site co-op program.
• Directs and leads the technical aspects (process, equipment, automation, cleaning, validation programs, process maintenance, and process and project engineering functions) supporting the business strategy.

Qualifications:

BS in Engineering

8+ years of shown experience in a relevant field that includes at least 8 years of management experience 

Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience in OSD preferred

Effective written, interpersonal, and presentation skills

Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

Equivalent combinations of education, training, and meaningful work experience may be considered

Ability to drive functional, technical and operational excellence.

Ability to inspire and champion innovation, teamwork, clarity and team effectiveness.

Analytical mentality

Ability to handle ambiguity.

Experience with influencing within cross function teams