Senior Reliability Engineer

Senior Reliability Engineer Req ID #:  214471 Location: 

US 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.

IMPORTANT:   In order to be considered for this position, a resume/CV must be uploaded and submitted during the application process.  Please make sure work history and education are added correctly.    Job Summary Essential Duties and Responsibilities As a dynamic engineer, you'll use your technical engineering skills, knowledge and experience to become the driving force behind a structured & methodical programme of reliability excellence across the region 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 Keep up to date with industry trends and new technologies to seek opportunities to improve asset reliability 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, which may include capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues, by applying data analysis techniques (statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, fault tree analysis, Six Sigma (6σ) methodology, etc.), root cause analysis (RCA) and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA). Optimize equipment maintenance strategies based on risk (e.g., PM, PdM, Part availability, TPM, OAC, OEM support). Develop, maintain, and update essential guidance on maintenance and reliability documentation (e.g., SOP, Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Condition based maintenance, KPIs) for critical equipment Help to develop future functionality of our CMMS system in conjunction with CMMS administration team and site operation teams Identifies chronic equipment deficiencies and PM gaps through “Bad Actor” analysis and reporting. Develop and manage a robust life cycle asset management program for critical assets across our facilities and lab equipment portfolio Support the capital improvement process for new equipment installations and upgrades by ensuring design-for-reliability and design-for-maintainability concerns are incorporated Provide reliability maintenance input to Project Engineering Design and equipment selection through the application of Life Cycle Costing. Actively participate and provide input and feedback for the Charles River Safety Program to meet Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements in all duties. Comply with requirements from Charles River Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements. Participate and provide support for audits. Job Qualifications Education:  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or related discipline.  

Essential Experience:  Proven experience (5yrs +)  in an equivalent or related position with knowledge of reliability improvement techniques, problem solving and maintenance strategies

⦁    2-5 yrs Experience of working in 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

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

⦁    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear and work/type at a computer.  

⦁    Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

⦁    Hybrid - Ability to work from home or at one of our sites which will have general office working conditions; the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. However due to the nature of the role the position will also involve entering environments such as plant rooms where the conditions may be noisy for example and will need the application of personal protective equipment such as ear defenders as part of the risk control measures for safe entry

Comments:

⦁    This position can be based from home and requires regular domestic and occasional international travel.

  Compensation Data

The pay range for this position is 114,781 - 153,041 - 191,301. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and location.

IMPORTANT: A resume is required to be considered for this position. If you have not uploaded your resume in your candidate profile, please return to upload field and attach your resume/CV. 

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 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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