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’ mission is to bring Better Health. Within Reach. Every Day.® for millions of patients around the world. We are a trusted, reliable partner and dependable source of over 750 high‑quality generic, specialty and branded pharmaceutical products that hospitals, physicians and pharmacists need to treat their 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 be responsible to coordinate and communicate effectively with cross‑functional teams, including project managers, production engineers, and technicians.

Lead Continuous Improvement (CI) through packaging process/material optimization (Life‑Cycle Management) and the implementation of innovative new technologies/materials.

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. Review work of other PRT/MRT’s and provide feedback to performance. 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 ensure equipment performance is reliable and meets expectations with root cause analysis of failures with support from Engineer and/or Optimizer.

Perform preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant is in operation, which may include off‑shift periods and weekends. Actively participate in, and sometimes leads, equipment FATs to support production engineering efforts and support installation and training of new equipment to the facility.

• Performs preventive, corrective, or emergency work orders and respond to service calls while the plant is in operation.
• Guide other MRT's 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 on a real‑time basis.
• Trains and mentors other MRT's in technical skills and abilities.
• Provides input/suggestions to procedures, policies, work instructions and task sheets relating to maintenance and equipment certification.
• Ensures team has required tools, supplies, and work areas necessary for completing required maintenance tasks in area of responsibility in accordance with 5S+1 principles to ensure a safe and efficient work area and to eliminate clutter and foreign particles that could potentially damage equipment or product.
• Resolves issues and improves operations by making necessary changes to support continuous improvement by completing work on time and driving to improve work processes and procedures relative to manufacturing, packaging and/or site facility equipment.
• Initiates, leads, and works with Engineers, Project Manager and Vendors on projects and improvement initiatives to ensure equipment meets site standards, this may include support for Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) or Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) and related travel.
• Initiates and executes change controls and test protocols in support of the qualification of new and existing equipment.
• Reviews project designs and make recommendations for equipment accessibility and reliability. Leads the project team to communicate results and facilitates proper hand‑off from project team to long‑term process and/or equipment owners.
• Influences the project layout, design, schedule, part ordering,…