Role Summary
This role provides plant maintenance engineering support for 24x7 manufacturing operations at the Grifols Clayton site, Building 300 Purification, Clayton, NC, USA. The engineer will troubleshoot mechanical systems, become the subject-matter expert for assigned areas, and coordinate cross-functional activities to resolve issues, drive process optimization, oversee vendor support, and assist in training maintenance, instrumentation, and operations personnel.
Responsibilities
- Ensure reliable production area operation in compliance with safety, regulatory, and production requirements while making independent decisions and resolving conflict within defined areas of responsibility.
- Troubleshoot and identify root-cause mechanical system issues and process related problems so they can be corrected.
- Become the mechanical, chemical, and process SME for the areas of responsibility within the building while serving as a consultant to management within that specified area.
- Plans and organizes cross-functional activities. Partner with operations, maintenance and project engineering to identify and resolve issues (redesign, rebuild, repair, etc).
- Actively pursue and manage process optimization technology, help improve operational efficiency, and implement continuous improvement projects. Advances technical project proposals through to completion.
- Oversee outsourced vendor support.
- Assist in training maintenance, instrumentation, and operations personnel.
- Additional responsibilities include materials clearance, spare parts inventory, change controls, incident investigation, participating in safety reviews, specifications, leading projects during plant shutdowns and other common GMP engineering tasks.
Qualifications
- Engineer II: Required — Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related field; At least 2 years of experience; Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a Biotech or Chemical company. GMP experience preferred.
- Engineer III: Required — Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related field; At least 4 years of experience. Biotech, Chemical or Industrial experience preferred; Professional certifications and licenses as appropriate.
- Engineer IV: Required — Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field; Typically requires 5 years of related experience; Biotech, Chemical or Industrial experience preferred.
- Senior Engineer: Required — Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field; Typically requires 6 years of related experience; Biotech, Chemical or Industrial experience preferred.
- Staff Engineer: Required — Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field; Typically requires 7 years of related experience; Biotech, Chemical or Industrial experience preferred.
- Principal Engineer: Required — Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field; Typically requires 8 years of related experience; Biotech, Chemical or Industrial experience preferred.
Skills
- Self-motivated and driven to succeed
- Hands-on and a problem solver. Greater time in the field than at the desk.
- Communicates effectively and promptly at all levels of the organization.
- Strong theoretical and practical technical understanding with strong troubleshooting skills.
- Works well with technical and non-technical personnel.
- Solid technical writing and verbal communication skills.
- GMP and/or pharmaceutical industry experience preferred
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field. Professional certifications and licenses as appropriate.
Additional Requirements
- Work is performed in an office and a laboratory/manufacturing environment. Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms. Exposure to electrical office and laboratory equipment. PPE required such as protective eyewear, garments and gloves.
- Frequently sits for 4-6 hours per day. Stands for 2-4 hours per day. Frequent movement of hands with the ability to make fast, simple movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Occasional walking, bending and twisting of neck and waist. Frequent foot movements. Color perception/discrimination, depth perception and far vision correctable in one eye to 20/30 and to 20/100 in the other eye.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying objects with a maximum lift of 50 lbs.
- Able to communicate complex information and ideas so others will understand; able to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken and written words and sentences.
- Frequently performs routine tasks by following a set of written or oral instructions/procedures.