Associate Manager - Utilities (Boiler Operation)

Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative engineering team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action.

Working with Pfizer’s dynamic engineering team, you will play a critical part in managing the maintenance and reliability engineering activities involving the redesign, maintenance, and repair of utilities systems, buildings, and production/non-production equipment.

As a Senior Associate, your knowledge and skills will contribute towards the goals and objectives of the team.  Your ability to meet team targets will help in completing critical deliverables. Your innovative use of communication tools and techniques will facilitate in managing difficult issues and establishing consensus between teams.

It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

• Contribute to completion of projects, manage own time to meet agreed targets, develop plans for short-term work activities on own projects.
• Provide engineering support to develop scope of work, project execution plans, and associated engineering studies for equipment and component installation, modification etc.
• Provide necessary operational support as needed.
• Review preventive and corrective work order activities, and provide equipment maintenance history review.
• Manage technical writing and document review.
• Ensure calibration compliance with (Current) Good Manufacturing Practices (part of GxP) contemporary technologies and best aseptic practices.
• Participate in equipment/system-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations and update equipment reliability plans.
• Partner with Production and Quality Team Leads on troubleshooting and scheduling.
• Promote safety within the workplace by following site safety procedures and perform proactive safety assessments, foster a safe work culture.
• Actively participate in site & corporate initiatives such as Communities of Practice, Limited Duration Teams.
• Facilitate and participate in the investigation teams created to determine root cause of exemption reports, QARs and laboratory investigation reports. Serve as a liaison between quality, Operations and regulatory/Compliance to facilitate timely closure of investigations.

Graduate / Diploma Engineer in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.

Minimum 6-8 yrs of experience for Diploma engineers (Minimum 4-6 yrs for Graduate engineers) in pharmaceuticals industry

• Knowledge of Installation, Operation and Maintenance of Boilers & Water softeners.
• Conversant with Validation documents and schedule: FAT / SAT /DQ / IQ / OQ / PQ

Detailed knowledge of preventive maintenance schedules/check sheets, SOP’s and various audit procedures

Minimum of First-class Boiler Attendant Certificate is mandatory

• Master's degree
• Relevant pharmaceutical experience

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.