Senior Manager, Maintenance and Reliability

AbbVie; Branchburg Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie in New Jersey seeks a Sr Maintenance and Reliability Manager to lead maintenance and calibration teams supporting the manufacturing unit. You will drive asset reliability improvements, manage risk, and supervise a large technical organization including frontline leaders, trades, planners, and technicians.

The role requires strong problem solving, budget ownership, and compliance with EHS and cGMP. You will partner with engineering to plan maintenance and ensure reliable installations,

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and customer service mindset in a complex manufacturing setting.
• Proven problem solving and analytical ability with data-driven insights.
• Ability to manage and develop a technical team across shifts.

Responsibilities

• Supervises day-to-day activities of exempt and nonexempt technical personnel.
• Interfaces with internal/external customers to ensure high service levels.
• Drives performance through KPI reporting and continuous improvement.
• Conducts root cause analyses for major equipment failures and improves MTBF.
• Reviews maintenance plans with Engineering for new equipment reliability.
• Ensures compliance with EHS, cGMP, and regulatory requirements.
• Manages budget and drives financial adherence for the department.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering

Tools

Maximo CMMS

Job description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

This role is a key leader in site operations with responsibility over site maintenance and reliability teams. The Sr Maintenance and Reliability Manager is to help leads the maintenance and calibration team to support the manufacturing unit at the site. Creates actions plans to drive improvements to asset reliability and efficiency. This role identifies and manages equipment reliability risks that could adversely impact site or business operations. This position has managerial responsibilities over a large technical organization comprised of front-line leaders, tradespeople, maintenance planners, and reliability technicians that have responsibility to execute all manner of maintenance tasks (predictive, planned, and demand), manage the site CMMS system, and EMS system and drive improvements to maintenance processes and asset efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the day-to-day activities of exempt and nonexempt technical personnel. Provides leadership for the organization, and sets direction for all direct reports
• Serves as the face of the organization to internal and external customers with responsibility of ensuring the highest level of customer service
• Drives the team to higher level of performance to support the manufacturing operations.
• Supports the department manager in developing monthly KPI report-outs for the organization, tracks data related to KPI’s, and drives improvement initiatives across the organization.
• Conducts Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) in response to major equipment failures by understanding and applying failure data analysis techniques, perform analyses of assets to include asset utilization, overall equipment reliability, Mean Time between Failure (MTBF) and remaining useful life as guiding parameters
• Work with Engineering to review maintenance and installation plans for new equipment, and provide reliability and maintainability specifications for changes, to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. Participate in design and installation specifications, factory and site acceptance testing, and commissioning plans to assure adherence to functional specifications
• Responsibility their organizations compliance to all policies and procedures, EHS requirements, cGMP requirements, and any other regulatory body requirements (FDA, OSHA, EPA, DEA, etc), and timely corrective actions to any gaps in these areas.
• Analyze failure history to determine the reliability characteristics of key systems, and from this analysis, develop long-term solutions to recurring issues.
• Ensures the timely and effective execution of maintenance tasks including PdM, PM, DM, and all other work types in their area of responsibility
• Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety systems. Responsible for adherence to Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.
• Responsible for building/maintaining departmental annual budget and driving department financial adherence to meet budget initiatives.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, science, or related discipline with 10+ years of relevant experience, or demonstrated competence with a 15+ years of significant maintenance, reliability, or related experience. A post-graduate education/degree is may contribute towards the desired years of experience.
• Possesses a strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures. Works on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors. Exercises judgment and advises management as to the appropriate actions
• Experience with diverse customer base with a track record of outstanding customer service. Maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators. Listens to and understands others' points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one's own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations
• Requires a very high level of attention to detail and mental concentration, to ensure accuracy and total compliance with procedures at all times.
• 5+ years of experience leading a team with direct managerial responsibilities including, but not limited to delivering formal and informal feedback, addressing performance concerns and rewarding high performers, and improving team performance
• Must be results driven, demonstrating strong problem solving and analytical skills to strive to meet all targets and metric standards as set by site/department and division leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Highly Desired
• Experience work in a GMP manufacturing site Highly Desired
• Experience as a people manager for maintenance function Highly Desired
• Experience with developing and budget forecasting Highly Desired
• Experience with CMMS: Maximo is his Highly Desired

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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