Senior Manager, Reliability Engineering - Pacira BioSciences, Inc.
San Diego, CA
About the Job
About Pacira
Pacira BioSciences, Inc. is a leading provider of non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions dedicated to improving outcomes for health care practitioners and their patients.
Pacira BioSciences, Inc. is a leading provider of non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions dedicated to improving outcomes for health care practitioners and their patients.
Each of our 3 marketed products, both in pharmaceutical and medical device, represent cutting edge technologies for pain management.
We have 700+ employees and have averaged double digit growth year over year for the past 5 years, with $500M in revenue. We are small enough for you to make your mark, and big enough for you to learn and grow!
We have facilities in New Jersey, California and Florida. Our San Diego, CA campus is a world class manufacturing and R&D facility. We are rapidly growing and have opportunities across all of our sites and functional areas.
Why work with us?
Rarely do you have an opportunity to do work that really matters. What drives us is our mission. What makes us successful are our people. At Pacira, you are part of an inclusive culture that fosters collaboration, growth, and innovative thinking – a place where you can make an impact and help change the standard of care in non-opioid pain management. Be part of our movement, let’s pursue excellence together.
Why work with us?
Rarely do you have an opportunity to do work that really matters. What drives us is our mission. What makes us successful are our people. At Pacira, you are part of an inclusive culture that fosters collaboration, growth, and innovative thinking – a place where you can make an impact and help change the standard of care in non-opioid pain management. Be part of our movement, let’s pursue excellence together.
Summary:
The purpose of the position is to build and manage a Reliability Engineering team to improve the reliability, operation, monitoring/metrics, energy efficiency, predictive maintenance, and repair of pharmaceutical utility and process systems. The incumbent will lead reliability programs, efficiency and capacity upgrades to these systems while keeping them in a validated state of control. The position is responsible for all San Diego locations with a primary manufacturing plant operating at full capacity 24/7/365.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Build, mentor, and lead a team responsible for maintaining and executing programs to improve overall utility and process equipment reliability and uptime.
- Manages Reliability Engineering, Plant Operational Engineering, and Parts Departmental functions.
- Recommend, design, and implement utility design enhancements to improve the availability, performance, and capacity of utility systems.
- Establish and maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the overall health of the critical utility and process systems and build tools to exercise and evaluate KPIs.
- Lead other cross-functional teams to identify common pain points, develop appropriate solutions, and implement operations best practices.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to develop a long range (multi-year) plan for the direction and upgrading of utility and process equipment systems. This includes developing and continually updating a long-range capital plan to support this.
- Oversee those responsible for evaluating, monitoring, and improving plant day to day performance and energy operational efficiency.
- Lead implementation of Building Management System (BMS) energy efficiency programming and foster a program of continuous BMS improvement.
- Lead the Facilities Parts team responsible for having spare parts for all utilities and process equipment on site to support emergency repairs and minimize downtime.
- Ensure effectiveness of the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) used to optimize and control spare parts availability.
- Maintain both annual reliability and parts budgets, ensuring major parts purchases are achieved per each year’s budget.
- Update and/or create Engineering Specifications as needed in support of upgrade projects.
- Work with a team to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and pursue changes and upgrades to the systems and processes as warranted.
- Maintain a state of compliance, updating maintenance and operations SOPs to improve reliability and reflect upgrades.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This role has supervisory responsibilities.
Interaction:
The incumbent works closely with Operations, Engineering (Facilities,MS&T, Process, & Automation), Quality, Metrology and inter-departmental staff and vendors. The incumbent will regularly interact with outside engineering design firms, general contractors, and mechanical/electrical/BMS vendors.
Education and Experience:
- 8 years of relevant engineering experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical devices industries required
- 5+ years of experience managing reliability engineers required
- 3+ years of experience as a Reliability Engineer required
- Bachelors degree in a relevant engineering field required
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Understanding of the operation and interdependencies of typical utility systems in a Pharmaceutical Plant: central plants (chillers and cooling towers), boilers/plant steam, utility piping & distribution systems, HVAC, electrical distribution systems, and pharmaceutical RODI, Clean Steam (CS), and Water for Injection (WFI) systems
- Exposure to clean-in-place systems (CIP), classified air systems, RODI systems, emergency generators, fume exhaust systems, etc
- Experience implementing KPIs and other reliability metrics
- Familiarity with common pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment, clean-in place systems (CIP), liquid filling lines, autoclaves, and parts washer a plus
- Experience working with BMS and Utility Controls (UCS) systems. Experience with Siemens Desigo and/or Wonderware is a plus
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities with a high degree of self-motivation
- Ability to work both independently and team oriented
- Trained in cGMP operations for pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical devices manufacturing
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Job will require ability to access non-sterile cleanrooms and mechanical spaces.
- Job will require long periods of time sitting in front of a computer.
- On rare occasions may be required to respond after hours to support completion of planned facilities shutdowns, engineering projects, and/or mission critical repairs for the resolution of unplanned events impacting site operations.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Typical office setting with laboratories, offices, and cubicles.
- Manufacturing clean rooms
- Equipment/utility areas
The incumbent is exposed to a wide variety of working conditions from the typical office setting, with staff in cubicles with moderate noise levels with consistent printer, telephone ringing and conversation, to machinery rooms with elevated noise levels, access to rotating equipment, hot liquids, steam, compressed gasses, cryogenic liquids, high voltage electricity and strong chemicals.
Benefits:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision Coverage
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account with Company match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health Resources
- Disability Coverage
- Life insurance
- Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
- Legal and Identity Theft Protection
- Pet Insurance
- Fertility and Maternity Assistance
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 11 paid holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
The base pay range for this role in California is $112,000 per year to $154,000 per year.
The range is what we reasonably expect to pay for this role. The range considers a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: geographic markets, business or organizational needs, skill sets, experience, training, licensure, and certifications.
Source : Pacira BioSciences, Inc.