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Associate Director Maintenance & Reliability Improvement Engineer - EU

Employer
Charles River Laboratories - Scotland
Location
Tranent, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Start date
19 Mar 2023
Closing date
24 Mar 2023

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Discipline
Manufacturing, Engineering
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Experienced (non-manager)

Job Details

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

IMPORTANT: In order to be considered for this position, a resume/CV must be uploaded and submitted during the application process. Please make sure work history and education are added correctly.

EU Role can be based out of FR, NL,UK

EU - Global Role Can Be Based in the UK / NL / FR

Are you a Degree Qualified Reliability Engineer with exposure to a laboratory environment? If you also have excellent analytical skills and experience operating in change management, we would love to hear from you.

Business Area

Corporate Facilities Management Services

As a dynamic engineer, you'll use your technical engineering skills, knowledge, and experience to become the driving force behind a structured & methodical programme of reliability excellence across the region. Currently Charles River has 74 facilities across North America and 6.2 million sq ft and 49 facilities across Europe and 2.6 million sq ft.

What you'll do

You will be responsible for providing operational, technical, and strategic support and leadership to the global Reliability Excellence program across Charles River. Provide Reliability Excellence leadership in the region and manage issue escalations & resolutions. Working closely as part of a multi-functional team, utilise skills and experience to maximise the performance of our facilities and equipment.

Develop, implement, and support world class practices as it relates to Reliability Excellence, across all North American sites (or European as assigned), delivering reliability improvement across our facilities and lab equipment portfolio. Foster a culture of Reliability Excellence through developing and training our site teams in the use of tools and techniques.

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering or related discipline.
  • Proven experience in an equivalent or related position with knowledge of reliability improvement techniques, problem solving and maintenance strategies
  • Experience of working in cGXP environment
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.


Desirable

Desirable:

Certified Reliability Engineer, or equivalent
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate well in both oral and written reports.
Excellent collaboration, and persuasion skills with the ability to lead teams of individuals who have diverse

What We Offer You

  • A very comprehensive benefits package from day one, including a large pension contribution, private medical for you and family members, private dental care, critical illness cover, quarterly sales bonus and more!
  • Access to great discounts via our CREDS discount scheme.
  • Global opportunities and strong career progression.
  • The chance to work on several varied projects and liaise globally and nationally with other business areas.
  • To be able make a difference to health and wellbeing of people.
  • To continue your own career growth.
  • Flexible and hybrid working.
  • Parental leave.
  • Group Life Assurance and Group Income Protection.
  • Remote GP access 24/7.
  • Well being support and initiatives.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Mentoring and Sabbaticals.

So, what’s next?

If you are inspired by the possibilities of science to make a difference and ready to discover what you can do by joining us on this exciting journey and believe you can contribute to this bold ambition - join us!

Where can I find out more?

www.charlesriverdiscovery.co.uk

IMPORTANT: A resume is required to be considered for this position. If you have not uploaded your resume in your candidate profile, please return to upload field and attach your resume/CV.

About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin,veteran or disabilitystatus.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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Brief Company Description;

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

 

With over 17,000 employees within 90 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion. 

 

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.

  Here in Scotland, based at our site in Tranent, East Lothian, we offer a complete array of Safety Assessment services from complete IND-enabling programs to stand-alone preclinical studies, our preclinical CRO services provide a full range of in vivo and in vitro testing evaluations and regulatory support for the safety assessment of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and animal health products as well as chemicalsagrochemicals, and biocides. Our scientific and regulatory staff develop and execute individual preclinical studies or customized programs to ensure that drug efficacy and safety assessments are conducted in the most efficient manner.

 

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Charles River Laboratories - Scotland
Location
Elphinstone Research Centre
Tranent Easy
Lothian
EH33 2NE
United Kingdom

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