Associate Engineering Manager

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SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure.

We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed. Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention.

Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values:

• Patients first, always
  Patients are not a concept — they are why we act, especially when time matters most.
• Impact focused
  We are agile, entrepreneurial, and disciplined - working smart and learning continuously to deliver results that matter, with the consistency, quality, and trust that critical care demands.
• Team powered
  We go the extra mile - together - because our shared commitment drives extraordinary outcomes.

Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies. Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Associate Engineering Manager provides operational leadership for the Engineering Maintenance function at the Wales Manufacturing site, ensuring the safe, compliant, and reliable operation of manufacturing equipment, utilities, and infrastructure.

The role supports the Engineering Manager in delivering departmental objectives while providing day-to-day leadership of engineering personnel, driving equipment reliability improvements, overseeing maintenance execution, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

As deputy to the Engineering Manager, the Associate Engineering Manager contributes to departmental strategy, resource planning, talent development, and operational excellence initiatives, while ensuring engineering activities remain aligned with cGMP requirements, health and safety regulations, and business goals.

As the Associate Engineering Manager your responsibilities will include:

Engineering Operations & Reliability

• Support the Engineering Manager in leading the Engineering and Maintenance function to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant site operations.
• Coordinate and oversee daily engineering and maintenance activities to maximise equipment availability and minimise operational downtime.
• Ensure maintenance activities are planned, prioritised, and executed effectively through the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Lead initiatives focused on equipment reliability, asset lifecycle optimisation, and reduction of unplanned downtime through preventative, predictive, and condition‑based maintenance strategies.
• Support the development and implementation of maintenance strategies for critical manufacturing equipment, utilities, and facilities.
• Monitor engineering performance metrics and identify opportunities to improve, equipment reliability, maintenance compliance, and asset utilisation.
• Ensure robust spare parts and critical inventory management processes are maintained to support business continuity.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, mentoring, and performance management for engineering personnel.
• Conduct performance reviews, development discussions, and…