Lead Facilities Engineer

Unither Pharma; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic pharmaceutical group as a Lead Facilities Engineer, where your expertise will help shape innovative solutions in a regulated environment. This role offers the chance to guide a team, manage projects, and engage in technical discussions while ensuring compliance with industry standards. With a commitment to employee development and a culture rooted in respect, responsibility, and innovation, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing healthcare products that improve patients' lives. If you're ready to make a difference and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is for you!

Qualifications

• 5+ years in manufacturing or equipment and packaging technology.
• Strong background in technical troubleshooting and project management.

Responsibilities

• Guide and manage the team while ensuring training adequacy.
• Engage in technical discussions and oversee project completion.
• Monitor installations and ensure compliance with safety instructions.

Skills

Engineering Solutions Development

Technical Troubleshooting

Project Management

Problem Solving

Pharmaceutical cGMP Knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Master's Degree

Associate's Degree with Relevant Experience

Tools

ADP Software

Job description

Lead Facilities Engineer

Who we are?

We are a French pharmaceutical industrial group, recognized for making affordable healthcare products that improve and simplify patients’ lives to as many people as possible.

With 30 years of technological expertise, we position ourselves as a world leader in sterile single dose with 10 sites on 4 continents and more than 2000 employees.

Since 2013, our site Unither Manufacturing LLC. based in Rochester (NY), specializes in the manufacture of Blow-Fill-Seal, Liquid Stick-Packs, Pharmaceutical bottles, Tablets and Capsules. It has more than 280 employees.

Your role

Reporting to the Director - Site Strategic Programs, you will:

1. Guide and manage the team.
2. Ensure the adequacy of the team's training/authorizations in relation to the department projects and tasks.
3. Manage the team's schedule via ADP software.
4. Carry out scheduled evaluations to assess the development and performance of your team.
5. Define action priorities in relation to means, resources, and deadlines.
6. Develop the skills and autonomy of the team.
7. Ensure budget reporting and monitoring.
8. Ensure complete reporting (project monitoring, monitoring of investment commitments, overheads) to Site Management.
9. Measure progress in achieving operating and investment budget commitments and propose refocusing actions if necessary.
10. Engage in technical discussions with potential suppliers.
11. Organize and write specifications based on the needs and requirements.
12. Launch calls for tenders (Request for Proposal, Request for Service).
13. Ensure the solution designed respects the established specifications.
14. Ensure that technical choices which may deviate from established specifications, or the implicit expectations of internal customers are documented and validated in a formal manner.
15. Execute Projects and Tasks to the approved completion deadlines and within the defined budget.
16. Work in partnership with external companies.
17. Propose and apply solutions to mitigate and compensate for possible work delays.
18. Proactively alert site management to potential problems.
19. Ensure the successful commissioning of the project.
20. Monitor the installations and commissioning of equipment.
21. Coordinate the various suppliers and vendors and ensure their compliance to health and safety instructions.
22. Possess adequate technical expertise allowing problem resolution.
23. Respect the data in the specifications.
24. Communicate with Production to coordinate activities with respect to production constraints.
25. Assist with commissioning activities and in putting the equipment into production.
26. Carry out an assessment after each commissioning.
27. Serve in an expert role in writing the qualification protocol, execution of the tests, and approval of any resulting report.
28. Participate in operator training (training).
29. Work with internal customers to define the training requirement and provide technical content.
30. Organize training in collaboration with suppliers.
31. Study the technical needs associated with new site investments.
32. Participate in different project groups.
33. Collect and analyze needs from internal stakeholders.
34. Define technical solutions and implementations.
35. Respect the technical, regulatory and quality requirements issued by Management and Quality Assurance.
36. Take into account the necessary parameters (water production, energy, etc.).
37. Respect flows, workshop ergonomics and safety constraints.
38. Ensure the documentation of completed projects is updated.
39. Collect technical drawings from vendors for review and ensure they reflect the realized design.
40. Create technical drawings of the factory and update according to approved documentation practices.

Specific Skills:

This position requires the ability to think in high-level terms to develop engineering solutions for new processes. It also requires the ability to think in specific, detailed terms when problem-solving for existing processes. Strong background in technical troubleshooting, problem solving, detailed knowledge of equipment operation and validation requirements, ability to work in a matrix organization with cross-functional teams, ability to specify, procure, oversee installation, and commission systems and processing equipment, and strong project management skills. Proficient knowledge of pharmaceutical cGMP requirements and systems is a plus.

Your profile

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline with equivalent experience. Master’s Degree considered a plus. Associate’s degree with highly relevant experience will be considered.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

Minimum 5 years in either a manufacturing environment, or equipment and packaging technology. Experience in a regulated environment (FDA) preferred. Supervisory experience a plus.

Compensation range

95,000.00 - 110,000.00 USD

*The referenced compensation range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job's compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.

Learn more about us:

We are a dynamic company driven by a spirit of victory and are therefore pursuing strong growth while maintaining a close relationship with our customers and employees. Our culture is based on 5 values: Respect, Responsibility, Trust, Courage, and Innovation. We are committed to bringing these values to life with our employees by granting them a high degree of autonomy in the exercise of their profession and by encouraging their initiatives. We are committed to providing them with working conditions and atmosphere that is conducive to their development and the expression of their potential. We propose you to integrate a site that values the meaning of work and that entrusts our employees with a high level of responsibility.

Join us and make a difference!