Maintenance & Reliability Programme Lead

We are supporting a global pharmaceutical organisation looking for a senior Maintenance & Reliability Programme Lead to design and implement a standardised maintenance and reliability programme across multiple manufacturing sites.

The successful candidate will initially assess three sites, develop site-specific improvement plans and lead a pilot implementation in Romania. The programme will then provide a framework that can be replicated across additional sites globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess existing maintenance and reliability processes across three pharmaceutical manufacturing sites
• Design and deliver a structured maintenance and asset reliability programme
• Develop improvement plans and implementation roadmaps for each site
• Lead the pilot programme at the Romanian manufacturing site
• Develop and optimise preventive / planned maintenance (PPM) processes
• Support implementation and optimisation of CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management Systems)
• Establish maintenance standards, processes and KPIs that can be replicated across multiple sites
• Deliver training, coaching and knowledge transfer to local engineering and maintenance teams
• Work closely with site and global engineering leadership to drive sustainable improvements

Profile

• Extensive maintenance/reliability experience within pharmaceutical or GMP manufacturing
• Proven experience designing and implementing maintenance or reliability programmes, rather than solely operating existing processes
• Strong knowledge of PPM, CMMS, asset reliability and maintenance excellence
• Previous multisite or global programme rollout experience
• Strong stakeholder management, training and knowledge-transfer skills
• Comfortable combining strategic programme design with hands-on site assessment and implementation