Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Sr. Mechanical Engineer - Critical Utilities

Why Patients Need You

Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative engineering team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action.

What You Will Achieve

Your technical skills will help us keep our plants, utility systems, buildings and equipment up and running. Pfizer relies on you for maintenance, redesign, and repair of utilities in our plants, such as electrical, plumbing, carpentry, air conditioning, heating, painting and general maintenance. You will be relied on to take the necessary preventive and corrective steps for setting priorities, forecasting and allocating resources in the maintenance tasks.

As an Engineer, your breadth of knowledge on internal or external business challenges will help us improve our engineering products, processes, and services. You will provide technical guidance and collaborate with team members to help in problem solving.

It is your dedication and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Provide design and operational support of plant critical utility systems, with a focus on Purified Water, Water for Injection, Clean Steam, and Process Gases (Compressed Air, CO2, N2, and O2) generation/storage/distribution systems.
• Manage multiple projects and ongoing work activities within the division typically involving cross-functional representatives.
• Support maintenance work management and the installation, commissioning, qualification of equipment, facility/utility shutdowns.
• Lead and provide technical engineering oversight to develop scopes of work, project execution plans, and associated engineering studies for equipment component installation etc.
• Perform equipment evaluations to determine and justify new equipment, equipment replacement and incorporate into capital plan.
• Provide input to capital project design with respect to equipment selection and specifications.
• Support programs and systems with procedures and training while ensuring compliance with all regulatory and company requirements.
• Ensure that all work is performed in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), safety procedures, quality standards, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards, other regulatory agency standards, and good maintenance practices.
• Develop and establish strategies and methods that improve preventive maintenance processes and procedures resulting in enhanced equipment performance.
• Perform equipment evaluations to determine and justify new equipment, equipment replacement and incorporate into capital plan.
• Facilitate and participate in equipment-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations with good engineering practices and problem solving techniques.
• Support proactive reliability assessments including data collection, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), HAZOP analysis and process improvement initiatives.
• Interface with External Clients, Auditors, Regulatory Agencies and Internal Partners and communicate effectively with all coworkers, clients, vendors, contractors, and visitors.
• Support Quality system elements including but not limited to investigations, audits, change controls, revalidations, inspections etc.
• Provide governance of maintenance planning and scheduling across the Operating Units.
• Foster teamwork and encourage colleague development, provide salary planning recommendations as well as change management.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience
• Knowledge of and ability to apply Process Safety Management elements
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices), Food and Drug Administration, current pharmaceutical industry standards, and/or other regulations.
• Ability to work across functional areas such as operations, maintenance, quality and regulatory.
• Good communication skills, verbal and written, are required.
• Ability to shift priorities according to changes in departmental/facility needs and be open to different ideas/approaches

Nice-to-Have

• Master's degree
• Relevant pharmaceutical experience
• Industry experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs

Other Job Details:

• Relocation support available

Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.