Senior Manufacturing Supervisor CoE – Equipment Engineering DSP

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Job Function
Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function
Process Engineering

Job Category
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

Position Summary
The Senior Manufacturing Supervisor – Equipment Engineering DSP leads a team of Equipment Engineers within the Downstream Processing Center of Expertise.

The role is responsible for building and maintaining strong equipment engineering capability to support safe, compliant and reliable manufacturing operations. The supervisor provides people and technical leadership across the equipment lifecycle, ensuring that equipment remains fit for purpose and that technical issues, improvements, projects and lifecycle risks are effectively managed.

Working closely with Manufacturing, Maintenance, Process Engineering, Quality, Automation, Reliability, Validation and other Engineering functions, the supervisor ensures that equipment-related priorities are translated into effective technical solutions while developing a highly capable and engaged engineering team.

Specific Responsibilities – Equipment Engineering

Lead, coach and develop the DSP Equipment Engineering team, creating clear priorities, ownership and accountability.

Ensure strong technical ownership of DSP manufacturing equipment throughout its lifecycle.

Ensure equipment is safe, compliant, reliable, available and fit for intended use to support manufacturing needs.

Provide direction and prioritization for equipment-related operational support, technical investigations, improvements and projects.

Drive effective resolution of recurring and complex equipment issues through structured problem solving and strong root-cause analysis.

Partner with Manufacturing and Maintenance to improve equipment reliability, availability and maintainability and reduce recurring failures and unplanned downtime.

Ensure appropriate equipment lifecycle management, including identification of obsolescence, end-of-life risks and replacement or upgrade needs.

Support equipment qualification, requalification and validated-state activities in collaboration with Quality and Validation.

Ensure equipment changes are appropriately assessed and executed through applicable change-control and GMP processes.

Lead and support equipment improvements, modifications and CAPEX initiatives from identification of business need through implementation and handover.

Ensure technical requirements and user needs are appropriately defined for new or modified equipment.

Strengthen equipment knowledge, standards and documentation and ensure effective knowledge transfer within the engineering team.

Use equipment performance data, trends and KPIs to identify risks and proactively drive improvements.

Perform Gemba walks and maintain a strong connection between engineering activities and actual shop-floor needs.

Represent DSP Equipment Engineering in cross-functional projects and technical forums.

Build strong collaboration across Equipment…