Maintenance Lead
Novartis
Summary
Imagine leading the strategy, performance, and future of a critical manufacturing site's maintenance organization. As a Maintenance Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring equipment reliability, operational excellence, and GMP compliance while shaping a high-performing team that supports the delivery of innovative medicines. This is an opportunity to influence site-wide engineering initiatives, drive continuous improvement, champion safety and quality, and make a lasting impact on patients by ensuring manufacturing operations run efficiently and reliably every day.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead site Maintenance & Calibration operations to ensure safety, compliance, reliability, and business continuity.
- Develop and execute maintenance strategies that improve asset performance and equipment uptime.
- Drive TPM and Asset Lifecycle Management initiatives across manufacturing and engineering operations.
- Ensure GMP, FDA, quality, and HSE requirements are embedded in all maintenance activities.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance organization and frontline leadership team.
- Oversee contractor performance, service providers, and maintenance-related third-party partnerships.
- Manage maintenance budgets, resource planning, and capital investments to meet business objectives.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, reliability, and cost performance.
- Maintain inspection readiness and support regulatory audits, customer audits, and PAI activities.
- Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, and Technical Operations to achieve site goals.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of engineering experience within a regulated manufacturing environment.
- 5+ years of maintenance leadership experience with direct people management responsibilities.
- Proven experience leading Maintenance & Calibration programs in a GMP-regulated environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in Asset Lifecycle Management, reliability, and asset performance improvement.
- Experience managing large capital projects, maintenance contractors, and external service providers.
- Strong knowledge of FDA, GMP, GxP, Quality, and HSE requirements.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive continuous improvement, and deliver business results.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of engineering experience within a regulated manufacturing environment.
- 5+ years of maintenance leadership experience with direct people management responsibilities.
- Proven experience leading Maintenance & Calibration programs in a GMP-regulated environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in Asset Lifecycle Management, reliability, and asset performance improvement.
- Experience managing large capital projects, maintenance contractors, and external service providers.
- Strong knowledge of FDA, GMP, GxP, Quality, and HSE requirements.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive continuous improvement, and deliver business results.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Benefits
- 401(k) Matching
- Vacation
- Personal Days
- Holidays
- Performance-Based Cash Incentive
- Annual Equity Awards
Company overview
Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As an innovative medicines company, Novartis focuses on developing high-value treatments that address society's greatest disease burdens through technology leadership in research and development. The company operates across five core therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases; immunology; neuroscience; oncology; and hematology. With a workforce of approximately 75,883 employees worldwide, Novartis reaches nearly 300 million patients across 118 countries. The company leverages advanced technology platforms including targeted protein degradation, cell therapy, gene therapy, radioligand therapy, and xRNA to develop breakthrough treatments. Novartis maintains a strong portfolio of oncology drugs and generics while continuously expanding its pipeline through strategic acquisitions and internal research. The company's commitment extends beyond drug development to ensuring global access to medical innovations through novel access approaches and patient assistance programs.