Head of Maintenance and Automation.

In this strategic leadership role, you will shape maintenance, reliability, and manufacturing automation across two sites, ensuring safe, compliant operations. You will lead cross-functional teams, drive continuous improvement, and boost asset reliability and efficiency. This position offers visibility to senior leadership and paths toward broader site and divisional technical leadership. You will shape long-term strategy and capital plans while fostering a safety- and innovation-focused culture.

• Develop and execute the maintenance, reliability, and automation strategy across multiple manufacturing sites
• Lead the Maintenance and Manufacturing Automation organizations, building a high-performing workforce
• Drive preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance to improve uptime and asset reliability
• Own asset lifecycle strategy, including renewal plans and long-term investment roadmaps
• Lead Manufacturing Automation and OT initiatives, ensuring systems are reliable, compliant, secure, and aligned with business needs
• Define and govern automation standards, cybersecurity strategies, and automation architecture frameworks
• Partner with Engineering and Operations on capital projects to embed maintenance, reliability, and automation requirements from design through commissioning
• Establish KPI frameworks and leverage data-driven insights to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement

• Master's degree in Engineering, Technology, Operations Management, or a related discipline
• Minimum 10 years of leadership experience within Maintenance, Reliability, Manufacturing Automation, or Technical Operations
• Proven success leading large technical organizations across multiple manufacturing sites
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering and preventive and predictive maintenance methodologies
• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment, preferably GMP
• Strong understanding of manufacturing automation systems, OT, and computerized systems
• Track record of improving equipment reliability, uptime, and operational performance
• Experience supporting capital projects, asset lifecycle management, and operational readiness

• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• strategic thinking
• reliability engineering
• preventive and predictive maintenance
• manufacturing automation