Senior Engineer, Facilities

Edwards Lifesciences (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Edwards Lifesciences is seeking a facilities and maintenance leader in Singapore to drive system upgrades, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvements across building and facilities. You will lead cross-functional teams in operations and quality to resolve issues and ensure GMP/EHS compliance.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Engineering with 5+ years in medical device manufacturing, strong MS Office skills, and proven leadership and vendor management abilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering and 5+ years in medical device manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of facilities systems and preventive maintenance.
• Experience with GMP and EHS regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead system upgrades and validation projects.
• Develop preventive maintenance programs.
• Review facilities capacity and reliability; propose upgrades.
• Coordinate cross-functional operations and quality teams.
• Ensure regulatory, quality, and EHS compliance.
• Participate in budgeting and manage expenditures.

Skills

Facilities management

Project leadership

Regulatory compliance

Quality systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.

How you will make an impact:

• Lead in system upgrading and/or improvement projects including validation requirement
• Lead the development of preventive maintenance program to maintain and improve all facilities and building systems reliability
• Continual review of facilities and building systems for equipment capacity and reliability and recommend improvement or upgrading
• Lead cross functional operation and quality team to resolve facilities system or quality related issues. Lead facilities operation meeting to discuss preventative maintenance projects
• Monitor and analyze facilities and building systems capacity and reliability, recommend improvement or upgrading
• Review, approve and assign day to day tasks to technicians maintaining facilities reliability and support internal customers requests
• Monitor and maintain facilities systems and procedures to comply to regulatory, quality and EHS system
• Identify and recommend maintenance contracts
• Achieve plant EHS goals by monitoring (supervising) technicians/contractors to ensure that their work is performed safely
• Provide training and guidance to facilities technicians to achieve department goals for facilities and building systems reliability
• Review, establish and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Prepare and participate in Quality and EHS audits
• Participate in annual budgeting process and ensure spending meets objectives
• Other incidental duties assigned by Leadership

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field with 5 Years of working experience in the manufacturing environment preferred from medical related industries and with good engineering background on facilities and building systems required
• Experience working in a medical device manufacturing environment preferred

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Proven expertise in usage of MS Office Suite
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills including consultative and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to influence change
• Proven success adhering to and leading project schedules and managing projects
• Substantial understanding and knowledge of facilities systems and preventive maintenance programs
• Substantial knowledge of facilities related government regulations, GMP, and EHS
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively elevate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world-class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient-focused culture to deliver life-changing innovations to those who need them most.