Manager, Maintenance Excellence

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, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim´s high regard for our employees. The Manager, Maintenance Excellence will provide management and leadership in the Maintenance Excellence department. This department is responsible for the following functions: Maintenance storerooms, Reliability Engineering, Planning and Scheduling, Maintenance BPE, CMMS administration.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops tactical plan based on current assessments that yields continuous improvement in the Maintenance storeroom.
• Integrates storeroom processes with Planning and Scheduling processes, to ensure optimal utilization of resources.
• Leads, mentors and develops Planning/Scheduling resources to provide the highest levels of support in the following areas: maintenance, calibration and end users.
• Implements robust processes that ensure the most effective and efficient use of resources possible.
• Provides leadership and strategic insight to the CMMS administration function.
• Ensures system is compliant, reliable, transparent and serves as the cornerstone of all Maintenance and Calibration activities.
• Provides leadership and management oversight for the Reliability Engineering function.
• Develops improvement plan based on current assessments.
• Ensures that preventive and predictive maintenance procedures result in positive outcomes in terms of financial, reliability and regulatory compliance.
• Ensures that the BPE resources are focused on established priorities.
• Provides visibility to improvement activities and leverage best practices across the organization.
• Provides leadership and emphasize maintenance best practices across multiple sites, functions and organizations.
• Hires, trains, recognizes, mentors and coaches direct and indirect reports.
• Ensures all internal, environmental, safety and regulatory compliance within areas of responsibility.
• Participates in global teams to share and implement best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Engineering, or related field preferred and a minimum of 6 years engineering, reliability, maintenance, or related experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the pharmaceutical or biological industry.  In lieu of degree, a high school diploma/GED and a minimum of 10 years of engineering, reliability, maintenance, or related experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the pharmaceutical or biological industry.
• 5 years experience in successfully developing and implementing all aspects of a MRO materials management system, utilization of an electronic inventory database system and/or CMMS purchasing/inventory management module.  
• 3 years experience in successful budget development and management or related activity.
• 3 years experience in a training capacity either in a coordination and instructor capacity or related experience.  
• Five years of leading employees, leaders, projects and/or business functions. Direct supervisory experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of Maintenance best practices, including but not limited to planning and scheduling, reliability centered maintenance, TPM, CMMS.
• Familiarity with the GMP regulatory requirements of biopharmaceutical manufacturing or the food processing industry is desirable.
• Use of predictive maintenance technologies, such as infrared (thermography), vibration analysis, oil analysis is highly preferred.
• Purchasing experience is desirable.
• Familiarity with other aspects of facilities engineering and maintenance such as buildings and grounds maintenance, janitorial services, transportation equipment, reliability technologies, security etc. are all preferred.  
• Organizational skills in planning, goal setting, prioritizing project work and coordinating with operations.
• Strong oral and written communication skills to be able to effectively interface with all levels of BIAH personnel and outside consultants/vendors.

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

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities