JOB DESCRIPTION
Enterprise E&M Strategy and Transformation
- Own and continuously refine the PPL Engineering & Maintenance excellence strategy, maturity model and phased transformation roadmap.
- Benchmark PPL practices against leading global pharmaceutical companies and translate relevant practices into practical enterprise standards.
- Partner with site leadership to develop short-, medium- and long-term reliability and asset lifecycle plans aligned with business continuity, compliance and investment priorities.
- Act as the central technical escalation point for significant engineering reliability and maintenance risks.
Asset Reliability and Lifecycle Management
- Lead asset health, infrastructure, laboratory equipment and operational technology assessments, ensuring risks are prioritized by criticality and business impact.
- Drive year-on-year refurbishment, replacement and obsolescence plans for critical process, utility, infrastructure, laboratory and automation assets.
- Strengthen preventive, predictive, condition-based, reliability-centered and autonomous maintenance practices to move sites from reactive to risk-based maintenance.
- Ensure robust failure analysis, root cause analysis, CAPA effectiveness, lessons learned and horizontal deployment across sites.
Maintenance Excellence and Standardization
- Drive adoption and sustained compliance of global foundational guidelines covering asset registers, criticality, planned and unplanned maintenance, spares, lifecycle management, contractor evaluation, competence and performance measurement.
- Establish consistent governance for PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, breakdowns, production-impacting failures, maintenance cost, backlog, calibration and other agreed KPIs.
- Lead critical equipment and spare-parts strategies, including BOM quality, ABC/VED classification, lead-time risk, stocking norms and opportunities for regional or shared inventory.
- Promote disciplined work management, maintenance planning and scheduling, vendor performance management and continuous improvement.
Digital Engineering and Technology Enablement
- Provide functional leadership for CMMS deployment and integration, including standardized workflows, master data, work orders, asset history, maintenance backlog, dashboards and spares management.
- Advance predictive maintenance through IoT sensors, condition monitoring, analytics and scalable use cases.
- Partner with Digital, IT, Automation, EHS, Quality and site teams on OT assessments, legacy system upgrades, cybersecurity readiness, EMS, MES and Industry 4.0 priorities.
- Ensure technology choices improve reliability, data integrity, regulatory readiness and user adoption.
Governance, Performance and Investment
- Operate a strong three-tier governance cadence covering site, regional and global reviews, with clear accountability and timely escalation.
- Maintain enterprise dashboards and provide concise, data-based updates to senior leadership on progress, risks, benefits and required decisions.
- Support risk-based capital prioritization and business cases for reliability, obsolescence, compliance and operational resilience investments.
- Confirm that benefits are sustained through audits, maturity reviews, action tracking and site ownership.
People, Capability and Collaboration
- Lead and develop the central Engineering and Maintenance team, clarifying roles, priorities and performance expectations.
- Influence site Engineering Heads and cross-functional leaders, building commitment to common standards and outcomes.
- Drive technical competency frameworks, iLead or equivalent capability programs, critical-role mapping, succession planning and knowledge-transfer mechanisms.
- Create and mobilize global SME pools and communities of practice to solve recurring issues and share best practices.
- Build a we maintain culture through partnership between Engineering, Operations and Quality.