Manager, Maintenance, Fremont CA

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The basic purpose of this role is to provide effective leadership in managing site-wide maintenance work, including routine shutdown activities. The Manager, Maintenance will ensure that sound corrective, and preventive maintenance practices are performed to obtain reliable operation of critical equipment and processes. The incumbent will oversee the successful achievement of all pertinent departmental goals, ensuring that all internal safety and maintenance related GMP compliance requirements and external regulatory requirements are followed.

The Manager, Maintenance is responsible for developing a framework for partnering with all co-workers with focus on production personnel. The incumbent will foster an environment of continuous improvement while considering developing personnel skills as well as adopt an analytical approach ensuring that sound maintenance and facility decisions are achieved through good leadership and focused management skills. 
In addition - the incumbent plans and creates weekly work schedules for all technicians, incorporating high criticality repair work orders. Lastly the individual is expected to function as an SAP superuser for the current cMMS system.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads all assigned maintenance personnel and contractors in assuring all requirements of their assignments and responsibility are clearly communicated and understood.
• Fosters an attitude of teamwork, compliance, quality, safety and productivity.
• Schedules, assigns, and reviews work assignments in the Enterprise Asset Management system.
• Takes prompt action to correct employee performance issues while recognizing and rewarding positive results and performance.
• Performs ongoing evaluation of staff performance, including performance check-ins.
• Acts as an effective troubleshooting repository when issues arise in the field.
• Ensures that training and other personal development programs are in place for the development of subordinates.
• Ensures that performance opportunities are pro-actively managed through the Performance Management system.
• Provides leadership and hands-on action for emergency response to process and facility issues.
• Notifies maintenance and production process personnel as directed to assure timely communication and response.
• Reinforces a level of safety awareness by performing in a preventative manner to promote an accident-free and fully compliant environment.
• Enforces safety awareness and training and implements good safety practices among all assigned personnel in the facilities maintenance group.
• Provides effective direction and leadership during routine shutdown activities.
• Mentors staff, performs ongoing evaluation of staff performance, including annual and semi-annual performance reviews.
• Identifies training needs and provide training opportunities.
• Provides hands-on on-the-job training to technicians.
• Supports the development of training material and provides training to technicians and or contractors in maintenance concepts and procedures. 
• Coordinates LOTO training for all technicians
• Works with Reliability and Process Engineering to improve reliability and performance of production process equipment and utility equipment.
• Ensures timely review of completed work orders verifying timely and detailed documentation.
• Verifies work is following departmental workflows.
• Reviews and provides final approval (closing)on technicians work orders. This would include any remediation work in the event of a microbial contamination.
• Reviews highlighted P&IDs post work.
• Acts as a cMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) super-user for the team.
• Provides on-going training and creates variants - allowing ease of use for the technicians during their routine work.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Eight (8) years of progressive maintenance related experience and four to six (4-6) years of leading maintenance personnel required.
• Hand-on experience in a related industrial field is crucial.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Compensation Data

This position offers a base salary typically between (90,000) and (147,000).  There is opportunity to consider higher compensation above this range based on business need, candidate experience and or skills.  The position may be eligible for a role specific variable or performance based bonus and or other compensation elements.  For an overview of our benefits please click here.