For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
The Senior Manager, Maintenance & Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing operational and technical support to the Reliability Excellence program across Charles River. The individual will provide reliability excellence support in their assigned region and manage issues, escalations, and determine resolutions. Working closely as part of a multi-functional team, the Senior Manager will utilize their skills and experience to maximize the performance of our facilities and equipment.
Charles River has 74 facilities across North America and 6.2 million sq ft and 49 facilities across Europe and 2.6 million sq ft.
CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop, implement, and support world class practices as it relates to Reliability Excellence, across all assigned sites
- Foster a culture of Reliability Excellence through developing and training our site teams in the use of tools and techniques
- Support the creation and maintenance of the Charles River Labs Reliability Excellence toolbox
- Lead the implementation of new technology and ways of working to predict component failure and optimise maintenance strategies
- Support, coach and develop our engineering teams to achieve excellent asset performance
- Use data to target improvement areas and report on key performance indicators
- Facilitate and lead root cause analysis investigations to eliminate failures using industry-recognized methods
- Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations by applying data analysis techniques, root cause analysis (RCA) and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA)
- Optimize equipment maintenance strategies based on risk
- Develop, maintain, and update essential guidance on maintenance and reliability documentation
- Help to develop future functionality of our CMMS system
- Identifies chronic equipment deficiencies and PM gaps through “Bad Actor” analysis and reporting
- Support the capital improvement process for new equipment installations and upgrades by ensuring design-for-reliability and design-for-maintainability concerns are incorporated.
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or related discipline.
- Experience: Established and proven experience in an equivalent or related position with knowledge of reliability improvement techniques, problem solving and maintenance strategies together with a track record of working in a cGXP environment
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above
- Desirable Certification/Licensure: Certified Reliability Engineer, or equivalent
- Other: Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate well in both oral and written reports. Excellent collaboration, and persuasion skills with the ability to lead teams of individuals who have diverse backgrounds and opinions. Ability to interact professionally and comfortably with Senior Leadership. Proficient in CMMS (Maximo an advantage), BMS, project scheduling, Power BI, MS Office Suite.
- Ability to speak French would be advantageous. Fluency in English is essential.
- Must be located within reasonable commute of an international travel hub for ease of site visits outside base country of residence.
Please note the summary of Duties and Responsibilities is not an exhaustive list.
This is a Remote Working / Home Based role requiring some national and internal travel (Up to 20 - 25%).
Competitive Salary and Benefits Package. Training and Development Support.
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of 80% of the drugs approved by the FDA in the last five years.
At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
