Overview
Organon is hiring a Maintenance Manager to join our world-class manufacturing site in Cramlington, Northumberland. This role provides hands-on leadership and day-to-day management of our Bulk Pharmaceutical IPT maintenance technician team. You will be responsible for delivering a robust preventative maintenance programme, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring the highest standards of GMP, safety, and compliance. You will play a critical role in improving equipment reliability, developing people, and supporting production priorities within a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
Role Responsibilities
* Lead planned preventative maintenance delivery, ensuring safe, efficient execution, reliability, and adherence to agreed schedules and cycle times.
* Investigate equipment failures using data, root cause analysis, and structured problem-solving to drive preventative and continuous improvement actions.
* Use KPIs and performance metrics to improve maintenance effectiveness, reliability, and cost efficiency.
* Act as a key liaison across shifts, IPTs, production teams, and Centres of Excellence to support operational priorities.
* Provide strong first-line people leadership, including goal setting, feedback, performance management, employee relations, recruitment, and onboarding.
* Build team capability through training, cross-training, skills development, and maintenance of mandatory and role-specific competency requirements.
* Ensure full compliance with EHS, GMP, quality, audit, SOP, and change management requirements, maintaining inspection readiness.
* Manage budgets and maintenance spend, contributing to profit plans, capital investment decisions, and bulk-related capital projects.
Required Education, Experience And Skills
* Proven experience leading maintenance teams in a pharmaceutical, biotech or regulated manufacturing environment
* Strong working knowledge of GMP, SHE and quality systems
* Demonstrated ability to drive preventative maintenance, reliability improvement and structured problem solving
* Confident people manager with experience in performance management, training and employee relations
* Data-driven mindset with experience using KPIs to drive improvement
* Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
EEO Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates with a diverse background. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our applicants.
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