Maintenance Manager
Details:
The Maintenance Manager will report to the (Sr) Engineering Manager who in turn reports to the Tech Ops Director. The Maintenance Manager will have overall responsibility for the Athlone's plant maintenance as follows:
Site Maintenance and Equipment Reliability (Process, Packaging & Utilities)
Maintenance Team Performance
Site Maintenance Systems & Strategy
Plant Calibration
Essential Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:
- Fulfil the role of Maintenance Manager for Maintenance, Facilities and Utilities resources. Ensure the various maintenance and operations related tasks are effectively performed. Ensure that objectives are effectively achieved, consistent with Aerie's requirements to ensure compliance, safety, and reliable supply to our customers.
- Coordinate and execute Maintenance activities, preventative maintenance, calibration equipment improvement projects, to ensure optimum equipment uptime and target outputs. Equipment will include everything within Aerie Engineering responsibility, including but not limited to, parts washers, autoclaves and filling machines.
- Ensure that all Planned Maintenance and Calibration are completed to the schedule. Collaborate with Quality, EHS, Technical Operations, in completion of tasks to ensure best practice outputs
- Coordinate scheduled, tasks and resources, including vendor management, communications, training, project work, audit/inspection duties etc.
- Coordinate clean room, mechanical spaces and materials management in all areas while focusing on continuous process improvement using Lean Principles.
- Manage equipment flow, through maintenance cycles.
- Review and post execution approval of preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance and calibration SAP work orders. Approval of change controls, CAPA's etc
- Ensure process equipment is maintained including preventative maintenance, equipment troubleshooting and repairs to ensure continuous, reliable, and repeatable operation of equipment. Effectively manage and schedule equipment shutdowns, ensuring resources are available, thereby minimizing downtown.
- Ensure effective participation in writing/revising/ rolling out accurate, SAP task lists, technical engineering reports, training documents and maintenance procedures for various IPT systems; ensure all work is carried out in line with same.
- Ensure equipment reliability and performance by ensuring root cause analysis is performed and subsequent recommendations and improvement changes throughout processes are implemented including the calibration of equipment as necessary.
- Troubleshoot equipment problems, identify need for new equipment and/or modifications to existing equipment to optimize throughput and reduce process cycle times; Drive change through Change control system in line with deadlines.
- Leadership activities including selection, development, coaching and day to day management. Ensure that the team receives appropriate resources and programmes to develop technical and other skills, to complete their jobs whilst stimulating personal growth and development in line with role. Develop and maintain training programmes.
- Participate in on-call rota and callouts when required.
Aerie Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.