Project Lead, Maintenance

Job Title:

Project Lead, Maintenance

Location:

Columbus, OH

Job Type: Full-Time

As a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of essential medicines, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates commitment is to bring Better Health. Within Reach. Every Day.® for millions of patients around the world. We offer over 750 high‑quality generic, specialty and branded pharmaceutical products that hospitals, physicians and pharmacists require to treat patients across North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

Through our 32 manufacturing plants, eight R&D centers, and 8,500+ employees worldwide, we are always hard at work creating high‑quality medicines and making them accessible to the people who need them.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We are seeking a talented and motivated Project Lead, Maintenance to join our team.

In this role, you will coordinate and communicate effectively with cross‑functional teams, including project managers, production engineers, and technicians. You will lead continuous improvement (CI) through packaging process/material optimization (Life‑Cycle Management) and the implementation of innovative new technologies/materials.

You will provide service and technical leadership, coordinate work activities, and establish priorities within a team to ensure customer service needs are met for the manufacturing, site and/or packaging equipment. You will review work of other PRT/MRTs and provide feedback to performance. You will ensure reliable manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility equipment by troubleshooting, adjusting, repairing, rebuilding, fabricating, predicting failures, and replacing components and coordinating vendor support to guarantee performance, root‑cause analysis of failures, and maintenance of equipment reliability.

You will perform preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant operates, including off‑shift periods and weekends. You will actively participate in, and sometimes lead, equipment FATs to support production engineering efforts and support installation and training of new equipment.

• Perform preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant operates.
• Guide other MRTs in and lead team initiatives such as maintenance best‑practice initiatives, root‑cause analysis and performance‑center (PC) meetings to identify and resolve manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility issues in real time.
• Train and mentor other MRTs in technical skills and abilities.
• Provide input/suggestions to procedures, policies, work instructions and task sheets relating to maintenance and equipment certification.
• Ensure the team has required tools, supplies, and work areas for completing required maintenance tasks in accordance with 5S+1 principles to maintain a safe and efficient workspace.
• Resolve issues and improve operations by making necessary changes to support continuous improvement, completing work on time, and driving better work processes and procedures for manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility equipment.
• Initiate, lead, and work with Engineers, Project Managers and Vendors on projects and improvement initiatives to ensure equipment meets site standards, including support for Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) or Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) and related travel.
• Initiate and execute change controls and test protocols to qualify new and existing equipment.
• Review project designs and recommend equipment accessibility and reliability improvements. Lead the project team to communicate results and facilitate proper hand‑off from the project team to long‑term process and/or equipment owners.
• Influence project layout, design, schedule, part ordering, and installation.
• Serve as key contact for equipment projects ($500K.
• Monitor manufacturing, packaging, and/or site facility areas and related equipment to identify problems or opportunities and identify root cause and remediation for repairs or process improvements to enhance efficiency and…