Short 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 a number of 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.

Description

To provide effective leadership in managing site wide maintenance activities. To ensure that sound corrective, preventive and predictive maintenance practices are performed in an effort to obtain reliable operation of critical equipment and processes. To visibly execute the implementation of agreed upon improvement initiatives. To 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. To develop a framework for partnering with all co-workers with focus on production personnel and the utilities maintenance group to establish the necessary teamwork required to achieve departmental and Company goals and objectives. To foster an environment of continuous improvement while giving consideration to developing personnel skills. To adopt an analytical approach ensuring that sound maintenance and facility decisions are achieved through good leadership and focused management skills.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead all assigned maintenance personnel and contractors in assuring all requirements of their assignments and responsibility are clearly communicated and understood.

• Foster an attitude of teamwork, compliance, quality, safety and productivity.

• Take prompt action to remediate employee performance issues while recognizing and rewarding positive results and performance.

• Provide leadership and hands-on action for emergency response to process and facility issues.

• Notify maintenance and production process personnel as directed to assure timely communication and response.

• Identify training needs and provide training opportunities.

• Provide hands-on on-the-job training to technicians.

• Work with Reliability Engineering and Process Engineering to improve reliability and performance of production process equipment and utility equipment.

• Timely review of completed work orders verifying timely and detailed documentation.

• Verify work is following departmental work flows.

Requirements

• This position will require a minimum of five (5) years progressive experience in a maintenance related field including proven skills in the leadership of maintenance personnel.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.

• Advanced knowledge and working experience of autoclaves, lyophilizers, WFI stills, clean-in-place skids, fermentors/bioreactors, aseptic filling equipment, chillers, air handlers, freezers, coolers, cooling towers, and electrical distribution equipment.

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

• A background in a GMP bio or pharma production process environment is highly desirable.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to a person’s actual or perceived race, including natural hairstyles, hair texture and protective hairstyles; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; citizenship status, marital status; gender, gender identity or expression; sexual orientation, mental, physical or intellectual disability, veteran status; pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law.