Director Engineering & Maintenance

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Holland Netherlands.

The Company

One of the biggest pharmaceutical companies that develops, produces and sells medicines.

Role Description

Currently we are looking for an individual ready to take up the challenges of Director Engineering & Maintenance.
The purpose of this position is to ensure availability, functionality & reliability of production equipment, facilities & utilities to enable current and future production flow in a safe, quality and cost effective manner.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain all production equipment, facilities and utilities in an effective operating and compliant state
• Ensure that changes to equipment and systems are carried out, qualified, and documented according to approved change control procedures and in compliance with relevant requirements.
• Identify, develop and retain qualified people to provide Engineering and Maintenance services.

Business Excellence:
• Applies knowledge of industry best practices to provide inputs for increasing operational productivity within assigned area of work
• Acts with customer needs in mind and considers customer service of paramount importance
• Challenges and rethinks current operation methods
• Keeps the team motivated, committed and engaged in times of change
• Identifies and leads critical decisions at the same time that aligns the organization to support decisions for success
• Recognizes urgent situations and reacts effectively and immediately (“sense of urgency”)

Leadership Excellence:
• Clearly articulates organizational goals and the role team members/peers play in achieving these goals
• Delegates activities and accountabilities appropriately
• Models leadership behaviors and guides team members/peers to further their growth and development
• Supports team members’/peers’ needs for coaching and development
• Gives team members/peers feedback on their performance and development openly and constructively , and recognizes excellent performance effectively
• Identifies needs for future learning requirements and works with employees to close the gaps

Requirements

• Relevant Engineering education (College Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Facility, Pharmaceutical, Biochemical or Process Engineering)
• Comprehensive experience in maintenance in a relevant industrial production environment
• Comprehensive experience in project management
• Comprehensive knowledge of facility and utility systems
• Relevant Master’s Degree
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of chemical and pharmaceutical production and packaging process and equipment
• Comprehensive working knowledge of GEP (Good Engineering Practices)
• Comprehensive knowledge of production environment and product types
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience in the relevant production and packaging process and equipment
• Comprehensive knowledge of TAPI / pharma key technologies
• Basic working knowledge of process controls
• Comprehensive understanding of environment health and safety (EHS)
• Proactively leverage Lean and/or six sigma principles
• Comprehensive ability to interpret and localize specifications and standards
• Extensive ability to manage Capital and Operational expenses
• Comprehensive knowledge of the current pharmaceutical, regulatory and technology trends
• Comprehensive financial understanding
• Comprehensive knowledge of cGMP and local regulations
• English (level of proficiency)
• Local language proficiency

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Windimi Post.