Manager, Plant Engineering

3 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Moderna Therapeutics Full time

**The Role**:
Reporting to the Facilities and Engineering Director, this position leads a team responsible for HVAC, GMP facilities, and GMP and grey utilities Engineering, Maintenance and Operations at Moderna’s mRNA Manufacturing Site at Melbourne, Victoria. This position will provide technical leadership in all engineering aspects relate to Plant and GMP Utilities, including HVAC, and BMS systems. This position will lead investigations relating to non-conformance events in partnership with Quality, IT, Manufacturing and the IFM.

**Here’s What You’ll Do**:
Provide direct engineering support for the clean utilities including WFI generation, storage, and distribution and process gases. In addition, the engineer will provide technical support of grey utilities including chilled water, steam, boilers, and condensate systems, including the associated BMS controls. The GMP HVAC support is to include expertise in clean room design, air distribution, HEPA filtration and certification, and pressure differential and pressure alarming strategies.

Owner of the GMP utility and HVAC equipment and systems at the Melbourne site to include troubleshooting equipment to determine root cause of failure modes, owning Corrective/Preventative Actions and associated change controls, providing input into preventative maintenance plans, assessing change controls, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Provide a high level of customer support to the Facilities and Manufacturing teams, the Plant Engineering Manager must develop a deep knowledge of the utility and HVAC requirements of each of the manufacturing areas.

A key requirement of this position is the ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to determine the best path forward to identified issues by balancing technical, compliance, and business objectives.

Responsible for supervision of facilities Maintenance staff and Facilities maintenance activities for 24/7 GMP operations.

Prioritize and plan work activities for plant maintenance technicians; use time efficiently; develop realistic action plans as well as ensure technicians are adequately trained on site facility and systems they will be expected to work on and repair.

Perform Facilities maintenance staff performance appraisals, training, coaching, and mentoring.

Ensure preventive maintenance work plans are current, accurate, written with sufficient detail, and executed

The Plant Engineering Manager will have specific safety objectives to include proactively evaluating the safety of the operation of the utility and HVAC equipment and propose and implement safety improvements. The Engineering Manager must always work in a safe manner by adhering to all safety procedures and have a proactive safety mindset.

The Plant Engineering Manager will participate on project teams through all phases of engineering projects in the HVAC and utility areas including conceptual design, detailed design, equipment procurement, construction, installation, start up, commissioning, validation, and qualification of facilities and/or equipment.

**Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table**:
A minimum of 15 years professional experience required in engineering, facilities or operations.

A minimum of 10 years relevant experience in cGMP environment is desirable.

BS in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.

Familiarity with biotechnology operations, including GMPs. Knowledge of clean room design, GMP HVAC, grey utilities, and GMP utilities.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) are required. Expected to be able to present own work to peers and cross-functional managers and influence leadership decisions. Technical writing skills required.

Must be able use his/her technical background to investigate issues using a structured problem-solving approach to determine true root cause and develop effective corrective and preventative actions. Must be able to be able to find true root cause and path forward for complex problems.

Familiarity with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint are required, and basic statistical analysis techniques are preferred.

Ability to interact well with other groups and must be able to take ownership of and follow through on assignments. Must be able to drive results on multiple complex assignments simultaneously with mínimal required direction from his/her supervisor.

Ability to represent Moderna’s interests, objectives and policies in a professional and responsible manner.

Experience in large engineering capital projects and facility start-ups is preferred.

Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work.

We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with:
Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
Free premium access to fitness



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