Senior Maintenance Engineer

at  Gilead Sciences

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Job Description
Job Description
The Position
We are seeking a highly motivated individual for the role of Senior Maintenance Engineer. Reporting to the Associate Director of Engineering Operations & Compliance, As the Senior Maintenance Engineer, you are responsible for driving toward exceptional equipment performance to meet company goals. You will manage a team of maintenance technicians, and contractors to support the strategic direction of the company’s maintenance program to ensure equipment reliability meets production operational demands.

Responsibilities Include:

• Implement maintenance strategy aligned with the company’s goals and objectives. This includes establishing and maintaining a comprehensive maintenance program to ensure the reliability and availability of all equipment and facilities
• Provide strong leadership to the maintenance teams, while fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion as a part of the overall department strategy. This includes providing staff with coaching, training, and opportunities to develop skills, give ongoing constructive and timely feedback on performance
• Manage maintenance infrastructure, monitor all systems status, and analyse to identify trends. Develop and manage preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance programs to ensure cost effective and reliable operation of all equipment and systems. This includes implementing predictive and preventive maintenance practices to minimise downtime and optimise equipment performance
• Monitor KPIs for equipment breakdowns, calibrations, and PM, and implement corrective and preventive actions
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with regulatory requirements, including FDA and GMP standards and maintain accurate documentation/records to support regulatory audits and inspections
• Manage the maintenance budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation and identify cost-saving opportunities to implement cost-effective solutions
• Promote a culture of safety responsibility within the engineering and maintenance teams.
• Engage in Cross Functional Team activities to address and mitigate any root cause problems with preventative maintenance and machine performance
• Develop Preventative Maintenance methods to minimise mean time between failure and maximise OEE
• Collaborates across PDM Manufacturing sites to implement shared and harmonised processes

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
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Degree qualified with extensive experience in Maintenance management.

• Experience in Pharmaceutical manufacturing and/or Biotechnology operations/GMP environment
• Strong Technical Knowledge of Equipment reliability engineering
• Demonstrates excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to act on own initiative
• Experience in the delivery and management of maintenance management systems

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Gilead” or the “Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.
For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:
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to apply for this job

• Implement maintenance strategy aligned with the company’s goals and objectives. This includes establishing and maintaining a comprehensive maintenance program to ensure the reliability and availability of all equipment and facilities
• Provide strong leadership to the maintenance teams, while fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion as a part of the overall department strategy. This includes providing staff with coaching, training, and opportunities to develop skills, give ongoing constructive and timely feedback on performance
• Manage maintenance infrastructure, monitor all systems status, and analyse to identify trends. Develop and manage preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance programs to ensure cost effective and reliable operation of all equipment and systems. This includes implementing predictive and preventive maintenance practices to minimise downtime and optimise equipment performance
• Monitor KPIs for equipment breakdowns, calibrations, and PM, and implement corrective and preventive actions
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with regulatory requirements, including FDA and GMP standards and maintain accurate documentation/records to support regulatory audits and inspections
• Manage the maintenance budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation and identify cost-saving opportunities to implement cost-effective solutions
• Promote a culture of safety responsibility within the engineering and maintenance teams.
• Engage in Cross Functional Team activities to address and mitigate any root cause problems with preventative maintenance and machine performance
• Develop Preventative Maintenance methods to minimise mean time between failure and maximise OEE
• Collaborates across PDM Manufacturing sites to implement shared and harmonised processe