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Eurofins Maintenance Manager in Louisville, Kentucky

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

Overall Objectives and Responsibilities:

  • Supports successful preventive maintenance (PM) program of infrastructure assets by carrying out timely and thorough PMs.

  • Actively supports EHS initiatives and supports excellent housekeeping and campus orderliness.

  • Collect and analyze equipment histories to support in developing maintenance strategies

  • Record overall equipment efficiency and document equipment downtime.

  • Analyze Root cause and countermeasure activities for equipment downtime.

  • Develop strategies to identify/mitigate leading causes of equipment failures using the 80:20 rule and root-cause-failure-analysis (RCAs)

  • Lead 5S efforts across the maintenance department to reduce non-value added time

  • Supervise maintenance technicians to develop work strategies, standard operating procedures, in order to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of work

  • Identify maintenance tasks that should be operator owned and works with technicians to deploy autonomous maintenance

  • Works with operations and quality assurance groups to develop calibration strategies for critical equipment

  • Actively manage maintenance costs and show reductions according to aligned upon goals and improved equipment performance

  • Prepares reports for defining reliability opportunities and makes recommendations for improvements

  • Develops spare parts strategies with consideration to part criticality, cost, and availability

  • Upholds high safety standards, with understanding of site, local, and federal safety regulations

  • Develop list of reliable vendor contacts to support in overall maintenance strategy

  • Lead process automation efforts to support in method and new process development

  • Experience with building utilities – Boilers/Compressors/RTU/HVAC

  • Enables business to meet and exceed operational goals by delivering safe, stimulating and socially responsible building environment.

  • Supports a team culture of continuous improvement for the office and manufacturing environment that ensures safety, efficiency, hygiene, sustainability.

  • Ensures successful maintenance of grounds and building infrastructure.

  • Conducts facility inspections and equipment condition assessments to determine necessary modifications, including repair work and replacements.

  • Complete other tasks as assigned

Requirements:

  • Degree in Engineering and/or any other related fields

  • Experience working in a maintenance department in a manufacturing environment

  • Proven technical experience leading programs in maintenance

  • 5+ years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment

  • Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to effectively provide guidance, support, and discipline as necessary

  • Must be cleared and willing to wear a half- and full- face respirator without restrictions if required

  • Basic knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, electricity, machine control, EMS/BMS, preventive maintenance, energy & sustainability

  • Experience with building management applications and SW systems.

  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, as individual contributor, and in teams in fast paced, stretch goal environment.

  • Ability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced production environment.

  • Ability to be on call and overlap with off shifts when there is need

Preferences:

  • Experience implementing reliability programs

  • Six Sigma Green or Black Belt

  • Previous experience working in an ISO-9000 and cGMP environment.

  • Previous experience working with organic chemicals

  • Knowledge of oligonucleotide manufacturing

  • Microsoft Windows and Excel proficiency

  • Ability to lift 35+ pounds.

Schedule:

  • Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

What we offer:

  • Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options

  • Life and disability insurance

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Paid vacation and holidays

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

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