Head of Facility Management

Responsibilities

- General facility asset maintenance, recapitalization and improvement projects, as well as coordination of overall facility modifications and additions and alterations.
- Lead equipment maintenance (1 employee) and tool shop operations (2 employees) to ensure appropriate support for production
- Responsibility as liaison with Corporate Engineering, outside agencies and local municipalities is a requirement of this position in compliance with relevant governmental requirements and Corporate guidelines.
- Oversees any facility asset maintenance activity and business relations with involved third parties
- Plan and execute large scale projects across various disciplines to reduce product costs, increase capacity, achieve schedule attainment.
- Develop and supervise within budgets for the respective areas of responsibility.
- Forecast and perform proactively to ensure that the future needs of the facility are met.
- Provide classic Industrial Engineering to implement new equipment and techniques and lead projects regarding Supplier Acceptance Test (SAT), Field Acceptance Test (FAT), DQ, IQ, OQ and PQ
- Study and propose plant layout/facility redesign for an integrated efficient operation and space optimization; realize up to $1M facility projects
- Establishes good relationships with local authorities and stakeholders related to the AGS property
- Building and property loss protection
- Organize first line support including internal and external service stand-by for technical alerts and emergency situations

Education and experience required for the role

- Basic: B.S. in Engineering or Industrial Management, ideally M.S. in Mechanical or Civil Engineering
- Minimum: 2 years of facilities Engineering experience, preferably with a Medical Device and/or pharmaceutical company, preferred; 5 years experience in Facilities Engineering Management with construction project experience
- Thorough knowledge of all aspects of facility management functions, high level of technical knowledge of operations and equipment utilized within the facilities
- basic understanding of HSE processes and services preferable
- good interpersonal skills, strong managerial and organizational skills
- very good knowledge of regulatory requirements (GMP, ISO, etc.)
- project management experience in leading cross-functional large scale projects
- Good command of English and German language in written and spoken
- Leadership experience preferable

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.