About This Role
As a Reliability Program Manager at Biogen, you'll be an integral contributor within the Facilities Engineering Technical Authority, responsible for spearheading a comprehensive reliability program. This pivotal role involves ensuring reliability, availability, and serviceability of our facilities, equipment, and systems throughout Biogen’s global manufacturing network. Under the direction of the Head of Facilities Engineering Technical Authority and in close collaboration with the sites’ reliability heads, you'll lead the charge in program development, maintenance, enhancement, and governance, providing crucial guidance to sites’ reliability engineering teams and overseeing the program's effectiveness at the enterprise level. Your contributions will be instrumental in optimizing our operations and delivering value to the business as a whole, while maintaining a firm position within our global business framework.
What You’ll Do:
Establish and administer a global reliability program for all manufacturing sites.
Provide direction and support to site reliability engineers, ensuring program adherence.
Implement continuous improvement strategies for equipment and system reliability.
Manage reliability budgets and allocate resources to meet program objectives.
Develop business case for improvements requiring investments and participate in capital planning for reliability related project opportunities.
Engage with external vendors and industry experts for insights into new technologies.
Collaborate on data management for tracking and trending with CMMS BPO and System Admin.
Employ a data-centric approach to reliability using analytics and predictive tools.
Use KPIs to monitor program performance and drive progress.
Ensure regulatory compliance, adherence to standards, and alignment with company policies.
Enhance Maintenance SOPs, Parts Lists, BOMs, and CMMS data integrity.
Analyze work orders and Quality Event Metrics to pinpoint improvement opportunities.
Lead RCFA and FMEA processes for informed decision-making.
Integrate reliability considerations into new projects and participate in capital planning.
Who You Are:
You are a seasoned expert with a solid background in reliability engineering and a knack for leading programs that bolster operational efficacy. You are a strategic thinker, equipped to serve as a reliability SME, and thrive on data-driven analysis to enhance system dependability and performance.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
BS in engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial) or related facilities engineering discipline
Minimum of overall experience of 6 years in Facilities Engineering/Maintenance in Biotech, Pharma, or similar manufacturing industry, with at least 4 years of Reliability Engineering experience.
Effective at influencing at both site and enterprise levels.
Strong communication, presentation, and technical leadership skills.
Proficiency in reliability analytics and methods.
Familiarity with CMMS, engineering, and maintenance business practices.
Expertise in core engineering principles.
Preferred Skills:
MS or certification in Reliability Engineering
RCM and/or TPM knowledge.
Process improvement and reliability engineering principles (PDCA, LEAN, Six Sigma/DMAIC, FMEA).
Additional information
The base salary range for this position is $104,000- $139,000. Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
80 hours of sick time per calendar year
Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
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What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.
Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries.
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