Associate Director, Engineering

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- North Carolina
- Durham (Old Oxford) time type:
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July 10, 2026 (13 days left to apply) job requisition :
R393631
** Job Description
** Our Engineers support complex manufacturing operations to ensure they are reliably executed and continuously improved. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Validation.

The Associate Director, Engineering is responsible for the maintenance and reliability of both utilities and process equipment. The scope of responsibilities includes maintenance and calibration, management of spare parts, and facility services for the facility. This role is responsible to lead the tactical and strategic initiatives that will drive reliability improvements. In addition, this role provides leadership that ensures a safe work environment with optimized product quality and manufacturing processes and regulatory compliance.

The facility consists of biotech operations including end-to-end processing of drug substance, drug product, including biotech culture growth, harvest, lyophilization, and product inspection.
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* Primary Responsibilities:

*** Provides leadership and direction through individual contributors in the team, including contractors and full time employees.
* Develops team strategy, including reliability plan, routine maintenance and improvement work, and executes to functional business plans.
* Prioritizes based on compliance, reliability, departmental budget and production plan to address resource and operational challenges.
* Leverages relationships with key clients and/or customers to support business needs.
* Coaches/mentors direct reports responsible for their area.
* Ensure proper team capabilities with appropriate trainings.
* Manage the area succession plan across diverse skillsets for roles within team.
* Partner across the facility leadership team and cross-functional teams (local and global) including for the startup and design of plant engineering, reliability, and maintenance programs for the facility.
* Team responsibilities for improvement and maintenance projects may include change control and equipment qualification, obtaining bids, reviewing contracts, supervising, and providing follows-up on contract work within team’s scope, including the auditing of time and material reports for their area.
* Responsible for assisting with master shutdown schedules and shutdown execution including all maintenance, calibration, capital project work, and GMP cleaning coordination for all facility shutdowns.
* Responsible for regular maintenance shutdowns including project leadership and meeting facilitation.
* Responsible for the preventive maintenance and calibration programs of all production equipment.
* Daily support of all production equipment to ensure area safety, compliance, and production goals are met.
* Spare parts risk-based assessments and identification of new parts to replace obsolescent parts to ensure correct type and number of spare parts are available for all production…