Summary
About the Role
Strategy:
- Manage and execute projects in alignment with key local and global stakeholders and ensure projects on site are developed through their various stages of scope, definition, approval, and implementation
- Responsible for the management/execution of all site investment projects according to asset life cycle management and project schedules, time, cost, functionality, and quality
- Execute projects according to life cycle costs and project schedules.
- Ensure state of the art technical solutions according compliance standards and HSE regulations including radioprotection regulations
- Responsible to develop / maintain Engineering site strategy plan (Capex Plan, recapitalization of equipment, budgeting, etc.) and oversight of its implementation.
- Responsible for the technical availability, reliability, and condition of the production plants.
- Define and implement maintenance strategy, program, and budget
- Lead sharing and leveraging of best practices and expertise within the Novartis engineering community
- Lead the implementation of technology strategy and the approved equipment standards and project execution standards
- Apply initiatives and strategies from global improvement programs and engineering standards and push and support roll out and implementation.
People & Organization
- Be available, accountable, decisive, honest and trustworthy to a group of subordinate specialists
- Plan resources for maintenance / calibration - Monitor and control backlogs of maintenance / calibration work orders - Select vendor / contractor
- Objective setting / PMP for Engineering department
- Ensure availability of competent, high performing people and develop the talent pool
- Ensure technical training of Engineering personnel: training curricula, training execution
- Develop and maintain job descriptions of Engineering personnel
- Own the Training Curriculum for own Job Profile and direct reports
- Implement sharing and leveraging of best practices and expertise
- Inspection readiness of Engineering department
Quality & Compliance
- Support internal and external audits
- Ensure Compliance with Quality Manual/ Quality Modules/ GOPs.
- Implement standards
- Implement GOPs and Standards
- If needed, create site specific SOPs & templates
Maintenance & Calibration:
- Drive/ improve technical availability, reliability, and condition of assets
- Develop, monitor and improve KPI for engineering
- Establish cost efficient repair and maintenance processes in compliance with local regulations, HSE, GMP
- Define and execute asset strategy and proper asset lifecycle management
- Manage maintenance improvement projects and initiatives
- Create and control maintenance/ calibration budget, drive efficiencies
Vendor & Contractor Management:
- Develop contractual strategy and framework to manage vendors/ contractors and corresponding contracts
- Establish vendor / contractor / service providers contracts
Project Engineering & Control:
- Manage investment budget & project portfolio for region
- Lead investment review committees for Plant
- Develop project execution strategy and execute investment projects according to customer needs (costs, schedule, functionality, quality)
Technical Services Operations:
- Drive/ improve Technical Services (infrastructure, utilities), availability, reliability
System & Tools:
- Manage, coordinate of centrally shared systems/ databases and provide professional infrastructure for design, installation, qualification and lifecycle management of facilities and equipment
- Act as system owner for system assigned
- Ownership of ALCM system and related business processes (SOPs, WPs)
- Definition/ setup/ maintenance of service catalogues
- Ensure the availability, support and maintenance of engineering systems and tools
- Ensure system is validated and kept in a validated state
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