Associate Director, Maintenance, Utilities, & Engineering

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Job Description The Associate Director, Maintenance provides operational leadership and technical oversight of maintenance activities for the sterile product manufacturing site. In this role, the Associate Director ensures equipment reliability, safe work practices, and regulatory compliance while supporting production needs and continuous improvement initiatives. In addition, this role will support the development and execution of the site’s Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) strategy and will actively participate throughout the project life cycle in Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) for utilities, facilities, and process equipment to ensure maintainability, reliability, and lifecycle considerations are incorporated into equipment and system design. Key Responsibilities: - Capital Projects & Equipment Lifecycle Support - Participate as the maintenance representative in major capital project design, execution, and start-up, with primary emphasis on start-up readiness—ensuring maintenance strategies, CMMS build-out, spare parts, diagnostic capabilities, SOPs, training, and reliable systems turnover are fully in place prior to qualification and initial manufacturing—along with part...