Use Your Power for Purpose
Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they need when they need them. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll contribute to delivering medicines to the world more swiftly by envisioning new possibilities and taking decisive action. Your technical skills will be crucial in ensuring our plants, utility systems, buildings, and equipment are operational. Pfizer depends on you for the maintenance, redesign, and repair of utilities in our facilities, including electrical, plumbing, carpentry, air conditioning, heating, painting, and general upkeep. You will be responsible for taking preventive and corrective actions, setting priorities, forecasting, and allocating resources for maintenance tasks. Your dedication and focus will enable Pfizer to reach new milestones and support patients worldwide.
What You Will Achieve
The Incumbent as a member of Engineering team is second in command in the department and is responsible for providing engineering and maintenance support in compliance with Plant SOPs, cGMP, Good engineering Practices, EHS and Global Engineering standards, Budgets, in the assigned areas. Is responsible for ensuring continuous availability of machines for Production, monitoring other required parameters.
In this role, you will:
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Lead and manage people, technology, and financial resources within the department.
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Actively share knowledge and identify potential improvements in processes or products, taking risks to develop innovative ideas.
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Solve moderately complex problems within your expertise and assist with issues outside the department.
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Oversee operational activities to support the department's short-term goals and manage multiple projects involving cross-functional representatives.
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Recognize development needs in others, collaborate to create development plans, and manage the performance of direct reports through goal setting, coaching, and ongoing assessment.
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Solicit input, explain complex concepts, and persuade others to adopt a point of view while effectively sharing your own perspective and rationale.
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Provide technical engineering oversight for project execution plans and engineering studies for equipment component installation.
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Support programs and systems with procedures and training, ensuring compliance with regulatory and company requirements, including SOPs, cGMP, safety, quality, OSHA, and other standards.
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Develop strategies and methods to improve preventive maintenance processes and procedures, enhancing equipment performance and conducting equipment evaluations for new or replacement needs.
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Facilitate equipment-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations, govern maintenance planning and scheduling, foster teamwork, encourage colleague development, and provide salary planning and change management recommendations.
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Support Manager Engineering in day to day functioning of the Engineering department.
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To design and implement preventive, predictive , breakdown and shutdown maintenance schedules and execution thereof.
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To Support Manager Engineering in Annual Engineering budget and keeping track of expenses, monitoring.
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Liaison with all applicable Government Offices such as Electricity Board, Public Works Department, Factory Inspectorate & Boilers, Industrial Development Corporation office, Meterology etc.
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Ensure statutory compliances required under the different enactments administered by the above offices.
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To identify, study, propose and implement energy saving cost reduction, automation productivity improvement measures in the department.
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Project Mangement - To execute projects for expansion/modification as and when necessary.
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To oversee installation of new Machineries and decommissioning of machineries /equipments to be replaced.
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To guide, plan and mange Plant wide maintenance activities, including devising and reviewing solutions to problems in order to support continuity of operations and compliance with CGMP and SOPs
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To carry out validations, IQ, OQ, DQ, in respect of engineering dept machineries and equipment's.
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To guide Engineers in maintenance activities to optimize resources and minimum/Budgeted production downtime.
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To evaluate vendors/suppliers /service providers for various Engineering services and recommend for services / contracts / AMCs.
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To supervise and verify the bills/work of the vendors/contractors/service providers
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To provide engineering support to EHS dept in carrying out Plant safety audits/inspections and to take appropriate corrective actionsin case of any unsafe conditions.
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To carry out departmental orientation and induction of personnel.
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To inculcate good engineering Practices amongst the dept personnel.
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Improve safe work conditions and safe working practices to have zero accidents and environment friendly operations.
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Adherence to local legal requirements, EHS policy and EHS standards/ programs/ SOPs to ensure compliance and improve the safety culture.
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Participation in safety meetings, EHS programs and EHS events and proactively report and address EHS issues and Near Misses.
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To ensure adherence and compliance to ISO 9001/14001, OHSAS 18001 and ICH requirements.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
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Qualification: BE Mechanical
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10 to 15 years' experience in maintenance of a pharmaceutical unit. Solid dosage unit experience will be preferred.
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Strong understanding of Process Safety Management elements.
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Proficiency in Enterprise Asset Management Solutions or other CMMS applications.
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Thorough knowledge of cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices), FDA regulations, and current pharmaceutical industry standards.
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Strong people management experience.
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Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):
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Master's degree with relevant pharmaceutical experience.
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Industry experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
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Experience in equipment-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations.
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Ability to develop and establish strategies and methods that improve preventive maintenance processes and procedures.
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Experience in providing technical engineering oversight to develop project execution plans and associated engineering studies for equipment component installation.
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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