Reliability Engineering Manager

Company: Moderna Theraputics
Location: Norwood
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

The Role:

Moderna is looking a Reliability Engineering Manager to support GxP activities around facilities, calibration and maintenance activities. The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, organized, self-motivated, hard-working, and have a tenacity for working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role will also be responsible for the CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) administrator who will be responsible for the day to day operation of the CMMS along with supporting calibration and maintenance activities relating to the CMMS. Applicants should enjoy working in an exciting and innovative environment.

Here's What You'll Do:

• Responsible for asset lifecycle management and CMMS System

• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and criticality assessment

• Participate in Operation Excellence Analysis and Programs as assigned

• Lead Reliability Improvement projects

• Develop maintenance strategy, maintenance plans, SOPs, parts lists, Bill of Materials and determine PM frequencies for new and modified equipment.

• Perform the review of critical equipment and develop improvements for high reliability and availability.

• Develop and implement maintenance and reliability metrics and report out.

• Drive improvements in spare parts accuracy by collaboration with end users

• Participate in spare parts functional equivalency assessment

• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and maintenance personnel to troubleshoot equipment

• Support for internal and external audits.

• Participate in the development and implementation of a predictive maintenance program across the corporation

• Participate in the development of maintenance budgets.

• Participate and inputs in the design of new equipment.

• Support Capital Projects

• May perform other duties as assigned

Here's What You'll Bring to the Table:

• B.S. in Engineering

• 8 - 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.

• cGMP experience is desirable including knowledge of laboratory and pharmaceutical process support equipment including Tanks, Autoclaves, HVAC, Washers, Compressors, Boilers, etc Washers, etc.

• Excellent Understanding of Reliability and Maintenance Engineering concepts

• Understanding of process improvement and Reliability Engineering principles, methodologies and tools such as PDCA, LEAN, Six Sigma / DMAIC, FMEA is desirable.

• Understanding of Predictive Technologies and Implementation (vibration analysis, thermal imaging, etc.)

• Must have knowledge of CMMS and engineering & maintenance business practices / procedures

• Must have proficient computer skills and be experienced using MS Office software (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) and MS Project.

• Must possess strong knowledge of the core engineering principles

• Must have good interpersonal skills and be able to work effectively and efficiently in a team-based environment.

• Must be organized and detail focused.

• Knowledge of chemical and biological safety procedures.

• Under supervision, able to organize and present technical and project management plans, schedules and budgets.

• Ability to lead teams and multiple small and medium projects at the same time

• Must possess good organizational, verbal and written communication skills

• Membership of relevant professional / technical organization is desirable

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• May be required to travel for business reasons, e.g. training and meetings.

• Must be able to work in controlled or clean room environments requiring special gowning.

• Will be required to follow gowning requirements and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body.

• No make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish or artificial fingernails may be worn in these work environments.

• The incumbent must work in a clean room environment wearing special garments.

• Additionally, personal protective equipment must be worn due to safety requirements.

• May work in a cold, wet environment.

• May be exposed to sunlight and heat.

• May be exposed to dust, gases, and fumes.

• Possible exposure to cool/hot storage conditions.

• May be around moving equipment and machinery.

• May be working in a loud area that requires hearing protection and other protective equipment to be worn.

• May work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers that may require respiratory protection.

• Pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.

• May be required to visually inspect frequently when completing the following job duty drawing verifications, field verifications, equipment verification, spare parts verification, start-up, troubleshooting, inspection and commissioning of equipment.

Here's What We'll Bring to the Table:

• On-site subsidized cafeteria or catered lunches
• Company-provided iPhone
• Free parking, monthly subway pass or a subsidized commuter rail pass
• Free annual corporate membership to Bluebikes
• Highly competitive healthcare coverage including: medical offered through BCBS (HMO/PPO), dental, and vision offered through VSP
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
• 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
• 16 weeks 100% paid family caregiver leave
• 20 weeks 100% paid medical leave
• Eligible for "Moderna Month" (one month paid sabbatical after five years of service and eligible for additional one month paid sabbatical every 3 years thereafter)
• Adoption assistance and discounts to local childcare centers, as well as access to care.com
• 401k (traditional and Roth offered) with 50% match on first 6% deferred. Match is vested immediately
• A suite of Moderna paid insurance coverage, including: life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Voluntary legal assistance plan
• 15 days' vacation and 7 sick days per year, in addition to a discretionary winter shut down and 11 company paid holidays (includes 2 floating holidays)

About Moderna:

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the promising-but-still-unproven field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with its first medicine having treated millions of people, a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use of one of the earliest and most-effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases. Today, 24 development programs are underway across these therapeutic areas, with 13 programs having entered the clinic. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past six years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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