Maintenance Planner, Sterile Drug Product Maintenance

at  BristolMyers Squibb

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THE ROLE

BMS Cruiserath Biologics is seeking an experienced Engineering professional to join the Drug Product maintenance team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Sterile Drug Product Maintenance, the Maintenance Planner will assist in delivering a safe working environment for our colleagues and a reliable plant to ensure continuity of supply of medicines for our patients.
The Maintenance Planner will be tasked with initially supporting the facility during project phase, supporting equipment installation and commissioning - from initial specifications to final handover. Support will transition from project phase to operational phase to ensure a successful startup and commercialization of the facility, including GMP readiness and New Product Introductions.
The Maintenance teams will also focus on complying with good engineering practices, company policies, regulations, and codes.
The Maintenance Planner will also support their manager in ensuring that the Drug Product Maintenance teams objectives are aligned with the wider Engineering and Site Objectives. They will be part of a multi-functional team charged with commissioning of the significant capital investment and upon completion of the project, they will support the sustaining operation on site.
This is a day’s role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reporting to the Senior Manager, Sterile Drug Product Maintenance to support delivery of an effective maintenance program to ensure process equipment operates in a safe and reliable manner.
• Work with the project & CQV teams to facilitate delivery, validation, and safe operation of equipment associated with the Sterile Drug Product (SDP) plant.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Work Instructions (WIs), Risk Assessments (RAs) etc. for the effective and safe completion of maintenance tasks.
• Assist with creation of Job Plans and Preventive Maintenance (PM) routines for the SDP process equipment.
• Ensure spare parts, tools, or other services are available when required for maintenance tasks.
• Working closely with the Maintenance Engineers and Technicians to schedule and oversee job assignments and lead site technicians or contractors as required.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of short-term and longer time business priorities and objectives through regular communication with leadership and other functions. Work with the Supply Chain organization and Manufacturing on all aspects of planning to ensure alignment with high-level schedule. Work particularly close to and in alignment with Manager, Manufacturing Planner.
• Implement and sustain an efficient forecasting programme for major maintenance activities which impact batch throughput.
• Oversight of daily, weekly, monthly Maintenance/Calibration plans & scheduling/assignment of all GMP/EHS maintenance activities through the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) system, with Right First-Time (RFT) mindset.
• Own, develop and publish a suite of team metrics/KPIs using data analysis reports and monthly management reports to demonstrate team performance and continuous improvements (i.e. schedule adherence, WO compliance, resource utilization, accuracy of job plans, resourcing and maintenance spare part analysis).
• Ensure all vendor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are in place and up to date.
• Co-ordination with Engineering Stores to ensure spare parts are available for all work orders.
• Enhance and improve CMMS (i.e. Maximo) and other site systems to ensure clear transfer of information between Engineers and Technicians.
• Ensuring compliance to all regulatory GMP, Safety and Environmental requirements from a planning perspective.
• Ensure maintenance and calibration activities are executed in compliance with all Regulatory requirements including Quality (cGDP/GMP’s), EHS, Global Engineering procedures, as well as all Local Regulatory requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis exercises with support from other functions as required.
• Own quality deviation investigations, change controls and Safe IM investigations as required and ensure corrective and preventive actions are effectively completed.
• Pursue and use new technologies and methodologies to improve overall effectiveness of maintenance programs.
• Deliver ongoing continuous improvement to plant and processes for a high performing team.
• Attend site planning meetings for alignment of schedule with cross functional groups and report back as required.
• Support condition-based maintenance methodology to investigate how data can optimize maintenance programs. Be an advocate for data visualization using Spotfire/Tableau.
• Champion a safety culture within the Maintenance team. Perform Safety GEMBA walks at assigned intervals.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders such as Manufacturing Operations, Manufacturing Engineers and EHS.
• Driving and promoting Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Documentation Practices (GDP), and adherence with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across the team.
• Assist the Maintenance team with any other maintenance work as per the business needs, including but not limited to development of training materials, vendor management, and other continuous improvement activities.
• Support and participate in maintenance reliability initiatives: Continuous Improvement (CI) projects, Support Toolbox Talks, Predictive Maintenance, Failure Codes, Surface Imperfection, gasket management, correct torquing, spare parts, etc.