The Sr. Manager, Fill & Finish, Pckg. & Inspection Production Engineering provides strategic leadership and governance for production engineering activities within pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. This role ensures safe, compliant, and efficient production by owning process engineering, equipment performance, and lifecycle management across isolators, vial filling, stoppering, and capping systems. The role leads and develops a team of Senior Production Engineers and Production Engineers, driving asset performance, risk-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities: List the roles and responsibilities of the position
1 Equipment Reliability & Operational Support
Responsible for overseeing the reliability, availability, and performance of equipment in various production areas. This role involves implementing proactive measures to identify and mitigate risks that could impact GMP, safety standards, and the continuity of supply.
Provide expert technical guidance for complex equipment issues, ensuring that the troubleshooting processes are systematic and methodical. Facilitate comprehensive root cause analysis to identify underlying problems and oversee the implementation of effective CAPA to resolve these issues and improve overall equipment reliability. Equipment includes, but is not limited to, vial washers, dehydrogenation tunnels, isolators, cappers, clean-in-place systems, clean-out-of-place systems, pasteurizers, and more.
Establish and monitor reliability KPIs (e.g., MTBF, MTTR, maintenance effectiveness, OEE contributors) to drive continuous improvement.
2 Maintenance & Asset Health Monitoring
Supervise the creation and enhancement of maintenance strategies that focus on preventive, predictive, and condition-based approaches. These strategies should be carefully aligned with the criticality of assets and the associated risks, ensuring that maintenance efforts are effectively prioritized and resources are utilized efficiently to prolong asset lifespan and reliability.
3 Change Management & Continuous Improvement
Govern equipment-related changes through formal change control processes, ensuring GMP compliance, risk assessment, and controlled implementation.
Lead and prioritize continuous improvement initiatives focused on asset reliability, compliance, cost optimization, and operational efficiency.
Ensure engineering standards, best practices, and procedures are established, maintained, and consistently applied.
4 Asset Information & Lifecycle Management (ISO 55000 Alignment)
Ensure asset lifecycle governance across design, operation, maintenance, modification, and retirement of manufacturing equipment.
Oversee asset information management systems, ensuring data integrity, traceability, and accuracy across engineering documentation, CMMS (SAP), and asset registers.
Ensure asset criticality assessments, risk priority scoring, and asset performance targets are defined, maintained, and actively used to support decision-making.
5 Projects & Shutdown Support
Accountable for the engineering portfolio of CapEx and OpEx equipment projects, including prioritization, resource allocation, and execution oversight.
Lead long-term asset lifecycle planning, including refurbishment, upgrade, and replacement strategies based on asset condition and business risk.
Provide leadership and governance for planned shutdowns, ensuring effective scope definition, execution, and post-shutdown performance review.
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Compliance, Quality & Safety
Lead, coach, and develop Senior Production Engineers and Production Engineers, building technical capability in asset management, reliability engineering, and GMP compliance.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
7 People Leadership & Capability Development
Lead, coach, and develop Senior Production Engineers and Production Engineers, building technical capability in asset management, reliability engineering, and GMP compliance.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
8Completes any other duties/responsibilities assigned by senior management
Position Qualifications and Experience Requirements:
Education
Experience
Ability to successfully lead projects from start to finish, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet high standards of quality.
Competencies
Commitment to CSL values, ethical behavior, inclusive teamwork, and modeling a positive, respectful culture.
The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $136,000- $171,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position at the listed location as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity.
