Senior Maintenance Supervisor

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Repair & Maintenance Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine.

J&J is expanding our manufacturing capacity with $2 billion investment to support strong portfolio growth and continue delivering breakthrough innovation and transformational medicines for patients. The new facility will expand production of innovative biologic medicines in areas including oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. J&J’s significant supply chain investment ensures a resilient and reliable future supply of medicines to meet accelerating demand for our current portfolio of medicines and our future innovations.

Learn more and apply to this exciting new role!

The GET (Global Engineering Team) organization operates as one integrated team in the delivery of Engineering, Maintenance and Execution Systems solutions. We operate in a standard, coordinated and consistent manner in support of the current and future requirements of our Manufacturing and Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT) and in partnership with key internal/external network.

The Senior Maintenance Supervisor reports to the Maintenance Manager and is responsible for managing a multi craft (mechanical, electrical and instrumentation) group of maintenance technicians, in the execution of manufacturing equipment maintenance. Working closely with manufacturing, the maintenance team lead will form part of the overall site goal of maximizing asset performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervises a team of multi-craft maintenance technicians and is accountable for conducting effective performance management

• Responsible for planning, designing and implementing maintenance programs to optimize the availability and productivity of manufacturing facilities and equipment

• Analyze, develop, and implement effective and operationally-sound functional strategies and initiatives

• Assists with the coordination and execution of processes and assignments for the Maintenance area

• Reports to managers on project activities and progress against key deliverables, ensuring projects are on schedule to meet agreed timelines

• Supports and/or leads root cause analysis and implementation of robust solutions to downtime issues

• Maintains consistent workflow and productivity of the team, and proactively identifies and resolves operational issues and concerns

• Coaches less experienced staff, recommending plans for continual improvement, and consistently evaluates individual and team performance against operational goals

• Creates and maintains a training program to ensure the team is up to date with the manufacturing maintenance technology and industry trends

• Monitors equipment operations to ensure cGMP compliance

• Develops and executes maintenance procedures, preventive and corrective maintenance, and equipment files for the manufacturing equipment

• Identifies appropriate spare parts to ensure maximum availability of equipment.

• Evaluates equipment reliability to identify trends and maximize equipment uptime

• Creation and management of appropriate maintenance contracts

• Liaises with production staff to coordinate repair work, statutory safety inspections and supply of new plant and equipment with production schedules.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or a related discipline required; equivalent combination Associate Degree with electrical licensure/certification and significant maintenance experience will be considered.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum of 5 years of production maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Strong technical foundation in maintenance and engineering principles supporting manufacturing operations.

• Working knowledge of cGMP requirements for maintenance in an FDA-regulated environment.

• Working knowledge of biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, or chemical processes, including utilities and facilities systems.

• Demonstrated attention to detail, strong execution focus, and a customer- and team-oriented mindset; thorough understanding of GMP and regulatory requirements.

• Proven influencing and collaboration skills with strong analytical and critical-thinking capabilities; effective conflict and risk management; excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

Preferred:

• Prior people leadership/people management experience.

• Project management experience (capital, reliability, maintenance improvement, or shutdown/turnaround projects).

• Proficiency with CMMS/enterprise systems and common applications (SAP preferred).

• Experience supporting greenfield or brownfield GMP manufacturing facility start-up, including process equipment, automation, utilities, facilities, and maintenance operations.

Other:

• FPX certification and/or Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.

• Electrical license/certification preferred (or ability to obtain required credentials within an agreed-upon timeframe).

• Ability to work a flexible schedule (including off-shifts) to support business needs.

• Requires up to 10% domestic and/or international travel

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.]

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Audit Management, Data Reporting, Developing Others, Equipment Maintenance, Fact-Based Decision Making, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Lean Supply Chain Management, Project Engineering, Quality Control Testing, Quality Validation, Repair Management, Risk Assessments, Safety-Oriented, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Team Management