Director, Engineering Ops & Digital Transformation

Bristol Myers Squibb

Manatí (PR)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 200,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb in Manatí, PR, is seeking an executive-level Engineering leader responsible for the strategic direction of Engineering, Maintenance, Facilities, Utilities and Environmental teams to ensure robust, reliable operations and multi-year digital transformation.

The role owns the digital roadmap, applies advanced analytics and AI to reliability outcomes, and drives energy, sustainability, and decarbonization across utilities and facilities, partnering with BI&T for system

Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in Engineering (advanced degree preferred).
10 years of pharma/medical device manufacturing experience with 5 years in management.
Knowledge of manufacturing tech transfer, Total Quality Management and continuous improvement.
Experience in process engineering, project planning and technology transfer.
Strong leadership and management skills.
Excellent English and Spanish written and spoken.

Responsibilities

Provides leadership and support to the engineering, maintenance, capital projects, and utilities organization (e.g., optimize product quality; reduce cost; maintain equipment and facilities; select and implement new equipment and technologies; provide upgrades and modifications to facilities and support systems; provide capacity planning; create cost-reduction programs, including cycle-time reductions and yield improvement in partnership with OPEX and Finance).
Assures Manufacturing Operations have the equipment, facilities and systems required to meet production requirements at the highest possible quality and competitive cost.
Provides guidance, support and implements systems for plant commissioning efforts and assures compliance with all regulatory requirements and industry trends.
Leads, motivates, mentors and develops team members to meet Plant and Company goals and objectives.
Assures effective integration of plans and resources to achieve effective, timely project-support activities across the site within budget, using proper project-management tools.
Develops team members based on technical and leadership development needs; owns succession plans based on business and individual needs.
Owns and is accountable for executing the site engineering digital transformation strategy and roadmap, progressing the organization along the digital-plant maturity model; monitors execution, milestones and benefits realization through the engineering leadership team.
Establishes reliability as a core site capability — reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), FMEA-based asset criticality, predictive and condition-based (IoT) maintenance, and asset-lifecycle management — to maximize availability (OEE/MTBF/MTTR) and lower total cost of ownership.
Champions the application of advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence and digital twins to engineering and reliability outcomes (e.g., predictive maintenance, energy optimization, equipment-related deviation and downtime reduction), acting as engineering business owner and partnering with BI&T for system delivery, CSV and cybersecurity.
Owns the site energy management, sustainability and decarbonization strategy for utilities and facilities, aligning site initiatives with corporate sustainability commitments (executed through the Facilities/Utilities organization).
Leads organizational change management and a workforce digital-capability strategy (data literacy, upskilling/reskilling, new ways of working) to overcome adoption barriers and embed a data-driven engineering culture; may establish an engineering digital Center of Excellence.
Establishes the engineering performance / KPI framework and governance required to make data-driven decisions and hold the organization accountable for safety, quality, reliability, cost and delivery results; represents the site in the network and external benchmarking (e.g., ISPE / FOYA).
Performs other work-related activities, as required