Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.
Specific Job Responsibilities include:
- Development and maintenance of Reliability Engineering program level guidance documents and implementation of these programs.
- Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures such as capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues. Familiarity with use of tools such as:
- Statistical process control
- Reliability modeling and prediction
- Weibull analysis
- Six Sigma (6o) methodology
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
- Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS)
- Provides advanced engineering support to ongoing activities and projects acting as a specialist advisor across the Reliability Engineering function.
- Leads cross-discipline projects focused on Reliability Engineering.
- Expanded areas of responsibility encompass loss elimination, risk management, and life cycle asset management.
- Loss Prevention:
- Tracking production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets and find ways to reduce those losses or high costs.
- Developing plans to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis and facilitates the implementation.
- Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
- Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions
- Risk Management – proficient understanding and use of the following:
- PHA - Preliminary hazards analysis
- FMEA - Failure modes and effects analysis
- CA - Criticality analysis
- SFMEA - Simplified failure modes and effects analysis
- MI - Maintainability information
- FTA - Fault tree analysis
- ETA - Event tree analysis
- Life Cycle Asset Management:
- Provide oversight in equipment selection processes for Capital and OPEX equipment purchases.
- Development and maintenance of Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM)
- Determines asset remaining useful life (RUL) and provides long range capital planning for budgeting.
- Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans.
- Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers.
- Participates in the final check-out of new installations including factory and site acceptance testing.
- Execute against the strategic and tactical objectives provided by senior leaders within Engineering and Maintenance, as well as outside of the function.
- Participates in preparation and review of Maintenance policies, procedures, and performance health indicators.
- Expands knowledge of engineering concepts that support the Engineering and Maintenance departments and capital projects
- Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors, and refines an asset maintenance plan that includes:
- Value-added preventive maintenance tasks
- Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies.
- May manage the day-to-day activities of a team of personnel and/or contractors.
- May be required to work off hours as it relates to projects or plant emergencies
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements:
- 7+ years of relevant experience and a BA or BS in related fields.
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a MS.
Preferred Experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Advanced project management skills
- Demonstrated ability to develop solutions to a range of moderately complex problems
- Knowledge and experience of using and designing business systems to manage projects
- CMMS
- Smartsheet
- SharePoint
- CRL, CMRP and CMRT certifications preferred
- Previous experience in biotech or pharmaceuticals industry
- Previous experience in the design and operation of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) Systems, specifically for Clean Utilities (ex: WFI, RO/DI, Clean Steam) and Dirty Utilities (ex: Plant Steam Boilers, Chillers, Industrial/Domestic Water)
- Previous experience working in highly regulated manufacturing environments
- Previous experience with predictive maintenance technologies and asset performance platforms (Ex. Plantweb Optics)
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