Job Description

Job Description

Our Company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity, and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and teamwork. As part of our global team, youll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

At our Company's campus in Elkton, Virginia, we are seeking candidates for a Senior Specialist in Facilities Operations to manage and coordinate maintenance activities across a subarea of the organization (WT/SR or Utilities) to ensure activities are appropriately prioritized and conducted in a timely, efficient, and safe manner in collaboration with Operations. The manufacturing facility is located in the Shenandoah Valley along the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains a short distance from the University of Virginia and James Madison University.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to apply their enthusiasm and technical skills as a member of a multidisciplinary team supporting the operation of pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and vaccine product manufacturing facilities.

Duties may include:

* Coordinate daily maintenance activities between Maintenance and Operations to improve equipment and instrumentation uptime and drive streamlining of the maintenance activity timeline. Ensure close and clear communication with Maintenance and Operations Managers regarding scheduled maintenance activities as well as unplanned maintenance work and its associated priority.

* Manage and balance the prioritization of maintenance activities for the subarea assigned (WT/SR or UT/SW) in collaboration with the other Facilities subarea counterpart, Facilities Business Lead, Maintenance, and Planning to ensure Facilities Operations business needs are met.

* Coordinate scheduling and execution of equipment downtime, tie-ins, etc. with Operations and contractor(s) for capital project execution, as needed.

* Act as liaison with reliability engineering to conduct appropriate testing and investigations. Coordinate with maintenance planning and predictive maintenance teams to ensure appropriate and optimized preventive and predictive maintenance plans and spare parts availability.

* Provide consistent communication regarding equipment issues and status to bridge across shifts and support teams.

* Maintain equipment criticality board daily and escalate issues appropriately.

* Ensure complete understanding of high-risk work permit requirements to facilitate efficient and safe collaboration between Maintenance and Operations.

* Function as Operations point of contact with Maintenance for the execution of documentation required to return equipment to operation after maintenance activity is completed, collaborating and communicating status with operators, Operations Manager, and Technical Operations.

* Participate in root cause analysis investigations for equipment and process-related issues.

* Provide first-line equipment troubleshooting support to the Operations Manager coordinating necessary follow-up action with Technical Operations and Maintenance.

* Collaborate with Technical Operations and Reliability Engineering to analyze equipment, component, instrumentation, and process breakdowns to continuously improve process and equipment reliability.

* Collaborate with site sustainability engineer to identify and implement energy optimization opportunities.

* Develop and train the skills and capabilities of the operational managers and operational team for identified equipment and process-related learnings.

* Provide aspects of annual process-specific training for all Facilities areas.

* Participates in audits, process hazard analyses, and training programs in the area of responsibility.

Education and Experience Requirements:

* B.S. degree in mechanical, civil, chemical engineering or related discipline and a minimum of ten (10) years work experience in manufacturing, maintenance, or military environments.

The successful candidate must have:

* Minimum of (six) 6 years of utilities, infrastructure, and/or wastewater experience.

* Highly developed communication, leadership, and teamwork skills.

* Ability to handle and prioritize many simultaneous assignments and quickly adapt to changes in business priorities.

* Ability to quickly address issues and collaborate to develop solutions to minimize safety, operational, and compliance risk.

* Experience troubleshooting equipment failures and resolving the issues.

* Experience with a CMMS Plant Maintenance management system.

Preferred Experiences:

* 10+ years of utilities, infrastructure, and/or wastewater experience.

* Process Safety Management (PSM), Mechanical.

* Experience in an SAP Plant Maintenance management system.

* Experience working in a cGMP environment.

* Experience interfacing with utilities, waste treatment, solvent recovery, and stormwater monitoring systems.

* Experience in a regulated industry; such as pharmaceuticals, food, and or nuclear.

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network thats devoted to delivering a high quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

Invent. Impact. Inspire.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

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Number of Openings:

2
Requisition ID:R108874