Associate Director - Engineering Maintenance

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Job Description

Overview:

This position is responsible for leading the process maintenance activities within the Facilities and Engineering function and will report to the Director of Plant Engineering. The role has responsibility for coordinating the delivery of maintenance strategies and programmes across multiple plant areas, disciplines and clients in collaboration with various site stakeholder groups. 

Key Responsibilities:

•    Provide tactical and strategic leadership and direction to the maintenance function, delivering high levels of reliability, quality and safety in all operations that is aligned with the manufacturing plan across the facility.
•    Own the delivery and professional execution of the overall maintenance plan, utilising strong influencing and leadership skills as part of the cross functional plant leadership team.
•    Manage the broader departmental responsibilities to provide technical, project management, emergency response, trouble shooting and preventative maintenance support for process related equipment across multiple unit operations and plant areas.
•    Accountable for the delivery of the maintenance strategy for all process equipment incorporating modern maintenance and reliability methodologies in its design. 
•    Develop accurate resource planning and capacity models that integrate the maintenance function within all aspects of short or long-range planning (LRP) processes of the Integrated Business Process (IBP).
•    Create, manage, and provide relevant justification for the departments' productivity goals and financial budgets (Operational, Capital, Headcount).
•    Deploy effective training strategies to ensure the appropriate level of standardised training, competence and knowledge is in place and balanced across the maintenance organization.
•    Develop the best team by coaching and mentoring technicians to develop their technical competency and leadership skills, including via engineering/system owner group.
•    Responsible for the development and execution of the consolidated site routine shutdown/slowdown programme to agreed schedules and frequency.  
•    Collaborate with broader site functions to support qualification, validation and regulatory inspection programmes with an ongoing focus on quality, aseptic compliance and process simplification and/or improvement.
•    Accountable for investigations into complex process deviations including robust CAPA execution/closure to avoid reoccurrence. 
•    Maintain a high level of safety supervision and engagement across the team to improve the culture of safety collaboration onsite. 
•    Facilitate the plant in the project approval, prioritization, execution and implementation.
•    Maintain relationships across the department to sustain an environment that promotes flexibility, efficient operations and consistent maintenance practices which prepare us for current and future production demands.
•    Develop meaningful maintenance metrics and goals to support site benchmarking and comparison across the network and industry to drive a continuous improvement culture. 
•    Integrate with relevant Maintenance / Engineering global peer groups across the Amgen and industry networks to improve reliability, site alignment, efficiency, agility and differentiation. 
•    Responsible to support development of relationship with CONNECT union both tactically and strategically on site.

Basic Qualifications

•    Typically, 8+ years of experience in an engineering management position. With typically 4+ years’ experience supervising technical staff.
•    Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a combination of education and/or years of experience in Maintenance Management. 
•    Fundamental knowledge of applicable quality management and regulatory requirements.
•    An ability to lead and develop large teams in a complex operation.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
•    Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to build, coach and direct teams across functional boundaries.
•    Team player, actively promoting a culture that relies on clear communication, collaboration and engagement at all relevant levels for effective decision-making.
•    Commands respect with the ability to assess and influence both tactical and strategic decisions in collaboration with broad stakeholder groups. 
•    Experience in prioritisation, utilising strong time and resource management skills. 
•    Considerable organization and delegation skills.                    
•    Ability to articulate and manage change initiatives in a complex operation.
•    Proficient in building relationships, negotiation and conflict resolution. 
•    Strong technical ability to understand and resolve complex problems as part of a focused and high performing team.