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
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