Sr. Spclst, Engineering
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At our Companys campus in Elkton Virginia we are seeking candidates for a Senior Specialist Engineering position in our Facilities Technical Support Team to support Utilities and Waste Treatment operations. The manufacturing facility is 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 vaccine product manufacturing facilities.
Responsibilities may include:
- Supports operations in maintaining and optimizing system operational reliability safety and environmental compliance and energy usage.
- Coach teach and develop the skills of the technical support team as well as the Facilities Operations team.
- System ownership troubleshooting and optimization of waste treatment solvent recovery and utility systems including boilers clean steam generation turbines compressed air chillers air handler units (AHUs) refrigeration systems and conditioned water systems to ensure compliant reliable and costefficient operation.
- Management of well water systems groundwater pumping plan stormwater monitoring and control.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and job aides and provide associated training to operations personnel.
- Implement alarm rationalization work process to eliminate nuisance alarms and improve productivity and support safe and compliant operation.
- Oversee and implement change control management
- Leading and conducting technical investigations of deviations identifying root cause conducting investigational test protocols implementing corrective actions and developing investigation report
- Provides capital project execution/support in project design reviews turnover acceptance and training of operations personnel for utilities project.
- Participates in audits and safety reviews.
Minimum Education Requirements and Experience
- Bachelors degree in mechanical civil environmental or chemical engineering or related disciplines with five (5) years of combined experience across waste treatment stormwater management and utilities equipment (HVAC clean steam generators boilers potable water air compressors chillers). OR
- Masters degree in mechanical civil environmental or chemical engineering or related disciplines with three (3) years of combined experience across waste treatment stormwater management and utilities equipment (HVAC clean steam generators boilers potable water air compressors chillers).
Required Experience and Skills:
- Experience with programmable logic controllers distributed control systems or building automation systems
- Demonstrated 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 develop solutions to minimize compliance risk and improve system reliability.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills and a handson approach to problem solving with a bias towards going to see problems for oneself in the field.
- Ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety compliance maintenance automation equipment process and people) to best understand and resolve.
- Strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.
Preferred Experiences:
- Ten or more (10 years) of combination of utilities water wastewater experience
- Groundwater and stormwater management experience
- Project management experience
- Experience working in a pharmaceutical or manufacturing environment
If you are the kind of individual who thrives on challenge and possess the technical leadership and business and communication skills that are of value to our business we invite you to apply. Consistently cited as a great place to work we discover develop manufacture and market a wide range of vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. Each of our employees is joined by an extraordinary sense of purpose bringing our Companys finest achievements to people
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Senior IC
Employment Type
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