Job Description Summary
This role is responsible for leading the plant Asset Care team composed of Facilities, Planned Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, and Automation/Controls. This role is also responsible for driving plant-wide maintenance activities required to maintain site assets and sustain overall plant operations and infrastructure. This includes developing a structured maintenance program that ensures assets are available as needed with a high level of uptime, maintenance costs are reasonable, and site assets are performing safely and reliably.
Ensures compliance with BD quality systems, policies, procedures and best practices, and all local, state, federal and BD safety regulations, policies and procedures. Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English. Willing and able to uphold BD Values.
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Job Description
We are the makers of possible
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it's no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you'll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.
This role is responsible for leading the plant Asset Care team composed of Facilities, Planned Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, and Automation/Controls. This role is also responsible for driving plant-wide maintenance activities required to maintain site assets and sustain overall plant operations and infrastructure. This includes developing a structured maintenance program that ensures assets are available as needed with a high level of uptime, maintenance costs are reasonable, and site assets are performing safely and reliably.
Ensures compliance with BD quality systems, policies, procedures and standard processes, and all local, state, federal and BD safety laws, policies and procedures. Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English. Willing and able to uphold BD Values.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Responsible for site-wide planned maintenance strategy and execution. Proactively manage all elements of preventative maintenance spend (including spare parts, labor, and services) to budgeted objectives. Ensure no overspending without proper approvals.
- Build a high performing technical team that helps meet or exceed operational objectives (Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost).
- Ensure that equipment is running efficiently and effectively by confirming Preventative Maintenance (PM's) are completed thoroughly and on time.
- Provide leadership over Tool Crib operations, ensuring targeted inventory levels for spare parts are well maintained. Plan for timely requisition and acquisition of needed spare parts, with diligence to keep inventory levels to a minimum.
- Actively drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality and performance and help achieve plant objectives for change to win (C2W) savings.
- Monitor and control site Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), failure trends and maintenance costs to identify priorities, possible asset modification or decommissioning required.
- Achieve a high level of PM compliance as per targeted objectives.
- Effectively partner with Manufacturing Unit technical teams to address manufacturing process issues and target the elimination of repetitive breakdowns.
- Take leadership role in motivating organizational change for the engineering and maintenance department related to people, structure, technology enhancement, regulatory and company initiatives on productivity.
- Effectively communicate to management any critical actions needed to restore and maintain the basic conditions of the equipment to 100% reliability.
- Ensures harmonization of processes, promotes, and enforces technical standards maintaining up-to-date knowledge and awareness of improvement methodologies and new techniques in maintenance.
- Benchmark engineering and maintenance standard methodologies against other BD sites and external references.
- Other duties as required to support the needs of the business.
Requirements
Education and Experience:
- BA/BS Degree -Mechanical / Electrical Engineering or related field
- Masters in Engineering or MBA preferred
- Minimum 5-7 years engineering in high speed automation manufacturing
- Minimum 3-5 years supervisor experience
- Experience managing Projects, Facilities, Planned Equipment Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, and Automation/Controls Engineers
- Medical device industry background preferred
Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities (KSA's):
- Computer skills - Proficient
- Building codes, occupational safety and environmental policies, current laws and regulations knowledge - Proficient
- Facilities construction and maintenance knowledge - Proficient
- Quality systems knowledge - Proficient
- Critical thinking skills - Advanced • Critical thinking skills - Advanced
- Project management skills - Advanced
- Communication skills - Advanced
- Leadership skills - Advanced
- Supervisor skills - Advanced
- Mechanical, electrical, HVAC and hydraulic maintenance and trouble shooting knowledge - Advanced
- Equipment design knowledge - Advanced
- Manufacturing process knowledge - Advanced
- Equipment lifecycle cost knowledge - Basic
- Preventative / predictive maintenance strategy knowledge - Advanced
At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.
For certain roles at BD, employment is contingent upon the Company's receipt of sufficient proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In some locations, testing for COVID-19 may be available and/or required. Consistent with BD's Workplace Accommodations Policy, requests for accommodation will be considered pursuant to applicable law.
Why Join Us?
A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. It's also a place where we help each other be great, we do what's right, we hold each other accountable, and learn and improve every day.
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you'll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow, and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.
To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers
Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.
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USA SC - Sumter
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