Senior Manager, Maintenance & Reliability Improvement Engineer

Job Summary

Job Summary Charles River Laboratories has the ambitious goal to transform its facilities management and laboratory equipment maintenance globally.  We're on a journey to World Class Maintenance, and we're looking for Engineers who are passionate about using industry leading tools and analytics to improve equipment performance.  You will have the freedom to develop a program of reliability-focused initiatives and improvements.  Working closely as part of a multi-functional team, you’ll utilise your skills and experience to lead the efforts to maximise the performance of our facilities and manufacturing assets regionally and deploy best practice to our sites .  We value a diverse range of skills, and we are keen to hear from engineers with experience from all manufacturing backgrounds.About our Team We are driven by our mission of improving the lives of patients, thus always have a sense of urgency, and the passion that goes along with it. While we do work in ambiguity, please consider that this role has more of a targeted focus towards the experience and well-being of our valued employees. We think it is fun to shift gears, sometimes hourly, and juggle multiple projects by working together creatively on how to deliver. We have earned the trust and respect of our most senior leaders and take that responsibility seriously. We are known for our ability to and quickly deliver clear and simplified solutions to complex challenges, with little or no direction. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• As a dynamic engineer, you'll use your technical engineering skills, knowledge and experience to support the delivery of 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.
• 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.

Job Qualifications

Qualifications

• Education:  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or related discipline.  
• Essential Experience:  Proven experience (5 yrs plus) 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.

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 $110,000/yr. - $160,000/yr. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

Competencies