Engineering Manager

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Our team are passionate in the pursuit of excellence and in pushing the boundaries of cancer therapy and Autoimmune disease to deliver life-changing treatments to patients.

Whilst working at Autolus you will enjoy a flexible, diverse and dynamic working environment which actively promotes creativity, leadership and teamwork – together we are ONE Autolus.

Job Title:

Engineering Manager (Shift)

Reports to:

Associate Director, Engineering

Department:
Engineering

Hours:

Shift Working: 2 on- 2 off, 3 on - 2 off, 2 on 3 off.

This will rotate across earlies and lates every 14 days. Early shift: 600AM to 1600PM; late shift:1100AM to 2300PM.

Location:

Stevenage

Autolus is a biopharmaceutical company, advancing innovative therapies at both clinical and commercial stages of development, focused on next-generation, programmed T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Using a broad suite of proprietary and modular T cell programming technologies, the company is engineering precisely targeted, controlled, and highly active T cell therapies designed to better recognize cancer cells, break down their defence mechanisms, and eliminate these cells.

Autolus has a pipeline of product candidates in development for the treatment of haematological malignancies, solid tumours, and autoimmune diseases.

Our team is passionate in the pursuit of excellence and in pushing the boundaries of cancer therapy and autoimmune diseases to deliver life-changing treatments to patients. Whilst working at Autolus you will enjoy a flexible, diverse, and dynamic working environment which actively promotes creativity, leadership and teamwork. In addition to this Autolus is proud to offer a competitive salary, performance related bonus as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Autolus is developing complex, breakthrough therapies for a globally diverse market and equally recognises that diversity amongst our people is critical to our mission. As we draw on our differences, what we’ve experienced, and how we work, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

• The Engineering Manager will be responsible for maintaining specialist pharmaceutical equipment and facility installations to support our manufacturing and QC operations.
• They will be primarily responsible for the shift team supporting equipment breakdown repairs & on-going maintenance work of manufacturing equipment and associated utility systems.
• They will plan and complete a range of reactive & planned maintenance works associated within the GMP facility & lab as well as order and maintain critical spares.
• The role will be shift based.

• Leadership of a multiskilled engineering team.
• Own and actively progress teams work load and professional development.
• Responding to fast paced and complex equipment needs.
• Lead and structure problem solving to diagnose faults and repair of equipment breakdowns.
• Foster continuous improvement mind set, focus on root cause, elimination actions.
• Represent Engineering Dept at multi departmental meetings.
• Work with equipment suppliers planning for and during major maintenance activities
• Ensuring equipment is handed back to production in 100% safe condition.
• Conducting risk assessment prior to any maintenance work.
• Verifying GDP, ALCOA, GMP and GEP practices are followed in CMMS
• Creating maintenance procedures (Including writing SOPs).
• Managing contractors and their activities.
• Providing support to Facilities, Validation and Capital Project Engineering as required.
• Provide SME support to other business functions.

E – Essential

P – Preferred

• Team leadership experience (E)
• 3 years of…