Job Description

The Senior Manager will define, build and lead the site maintenance and reliability programme, taking it from current state to a sustainable, best-practice model.

This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced reliability, maintenance or facilities leader who has built programmes before, not only run them. It works across Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, Facilities, Procurement and Quality.

Senior Manager – Site Maintenance & Reliability Programme

Location: North Carolina, USA (Onsite)

Industry: Biopharmaceutical / Life Sciences

Key Responsibilities

• Define the site maintenance and reliability strategy and roadmap, aligned with operational and compliance priorities.
• Build and implement the preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance programme, including asset criticality assessment and PM optimisation.
• Develop the spare parts and critical spares strategy, and lead its implementation in the ERP / CMMS (e.g., SAP PM, Maximo).
• Establish reliability practices such as RCM, FMEA, root cause analysis and maintenance KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, backlog).
• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling, resource planning, and planned shutdown and turnaround activities.
• Manage OEMs, contractors and technical service providers, including scope, performance and cost.
• Track programme milestones, budget, risks and progress, and report to site leadership.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, EHS, site procedures and quality requirements across all maintenance activities.
• Coach and develop maintenance and reliability teams to embed a sustainable programme.

Requirements

• 10+ years in maintenance, reliability, facilities or engineering leadership within pharmaceutical, biotech or regulated manufacturing.
• Proven track record of building or transforming a site maintenance / reliability programme.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing equipment, utilities and facility systems in a GMP environment.
• Hands-on experience with CMMS / EAM tools (SAP PM, Maximo or similar), including spares and master data.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams, contractors and technical vendors.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Authorized to work in the US and able to work onsite in North Carolina.

Preferred

• CMRP, PMP or Lean / Six Sigma certification.
• Experience in API or sterile / biologics manufacturing.