Senior Engineering & Maintenance Manager- Reliability Engineering

Unavailable; Viseu; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Hovione, a global CDMO, seeks a Senior Engineering & Maintenance Manager - Reliability Engineering to lead site reliability across critical facilities and assets in a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment. You will drive lifecycle strategies, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to sustain asset performance and compliance.

Responsible for developing preventive and predictive maintenance, leading RCA investigations, and guiding maintenance decisions with Lean

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic or Instrumentation) or related field.
• Extensive maintenance experience in GMP environments.
• Knowledge of industrial safety, environment, and budget principles.

Responsabilités

• Lead the reliability and engineering strategy for critical facilities, equipment and infrastructure.
• Identify and manage asset reliability risks using data from performance, history, and maintenance.
• Lead RCA and failure investigations and translate lessons into corrective actions.
• Develop and optimise preventive, predictive and risk-based maintenance strategies.
• Apply reliability methods (RCM, FMEA/FMECA, criticality, condition monitoring) to improve asset performance.
• Provide reliability input into design, acquisition, commissioning and lifecycle management.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean principles to reduce failures.
• Coach and develop a team of technical engineers and set performance objectives.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Quality and EHS on asset decisions.
• Ensure GMP, regulatory, safety standards and technical governance are met.

Connaissances

Reliability engineering

Maintenance planning

Root Cause Analysis

Lean methods

Team leadership

GMP compliance

Communication

English fluency

Formation

Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic, or Instrumentation)

Outils

RCM

FMEA/FMECA

Condition monitoring

Description du poste

At Hovione, we help partners turn scientific innovation into medicines that reach patients around the world. For more than 65 years, we have connected science, technology, and manufacturing to scale complex ideas into high-quality and innovative solutions that truly make a difference.

As an international Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), we support the development and manufacture of drug substances, intermediates, and drug products across the full life cycle. We are globally recognized for our leadership in specialized technologies such as Spray Drying and Continuous Tableting. But what truly sets us apart is not just what we do — it is how we do it: with purpose, care, collaboration, and a deep commitment to doing the right things right.

Our people are the reason for our success. We are a global and diverse team of more than 2,600 team members across Europe, the USA, and Asia, bringing together different experiences and perspectives to help our partners to overcome complex challenges. We believe that an inclusive environment — where everyone, regardless of background, identity or ability, is respected, heard and empowered to contribute — is essential to drive innovation, ensure quality, and secure long‑term sustainable success.

And as we grow, so do the opportunities for our people to develop, broaden their perspectives, and build meaningful careers. Because at Hovione, better starts with those who choose to make a difference every day. Will you be one of them?

You will be responsible to:

To lead the reliability and engineering strategy for critical facilities, equipment and infrastructure within a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment. This is an opportunity for a reliability professional who wants to operate beyond individual equipment or maintenance programmes and have a site‑wide impact on asset performance, reliability and lifecycle strategy.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead the site reliability strategy for critical facilities, equipment and engineering systems, improving asset availability, reliability and lifecycle performance.
• Identify and manage asset reliability risks, using equipment performance, failure history, maintenance and operational data.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and failure investigations, ensuring lessons learned are translated into sustainable corrective actions.
• Develop and optimise preventive, predictive and risk‑based maintenance strategies for critical assets.
• Apply reliability methodologies including RCM, FMEA/FMECA, criticality assessment and condition monitoring to improve asset performance.
• Provide reliability engineering input into the design, acquisition, commissioning, upgrade and lifecycle management of assets.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, using Lean and reliability engineering principles to reduce recurring failures and improve operational performance.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of technical engineers, establishing technical competencies, training plans and performance objectives.
• Partner with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, Quality and EHS, providing technical leadership and influencing asset and maintenance decisions.
• Ensure engineering and reliability activities meet GMP, regulatory, safety and Health Authority requirements, while maintaining high standards of technical governance.

We are looking to recruit a Candidate:

• Degree in Engineering, preferably in Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic or Instrumentation, or related field.
• Extensive experience in maintenance context of industrial areas within a GMP envoirnment
• Possess extensive knowledge of industrial / lab safety and environment and of budget control principles and practices and is able to effectively share them with others
• Good communication skills (verbal and written)
• Fluency in English is a requirement
• Must have the Knowledge, Experience and Skills to conduct their tasks in accordance with the rules and procedures set down.

Hovione is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer

Inclusion and diversity are key to us. We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. If you require any reasonable accommodation or support during the application or interview process, please contact us, and we will be happy to assist.

Senior Engineering & Maintenance Manager- Reliability Engineering Loures, Portuguese Republic, PT