Senior Manager Maintenance

The Senior Manager, Maintenance & Reliability Engineer is responsible for providing operational and technical support to the Reliability Excellence program across Charles River. This individual will provide reliability excellence support in their assigned region, manage issues, escalations, and determine resolutions. Working closely as part of a multi-functional team, the Senior Manager will utilize their skills and experience to maximize the performance of our facilities and equipment.

• Develop, implement, and support world-class practices as it relates to Reliability Excellence, across all assigned sites in North America or Europe.
• Foster a culture of Reliability Excellence through developing and training our site teams in the use of tools and techniques.
• Support the delivery of a structured & methodical program of reliability excellence across the region.
• Support the creation and maintenance of the Charles River Labs Reliability Excellence toolbox.
• Lead the implementation of new technology and ways of working to predict component failure and optimize maintenance strategies.
• Support, coach, and develop our engineering teams to achieve excellent asset performance.
• Use data to target improvement areas and report on key performance indicators.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and new technologies to seek opportunities to improve asset reliability.
• Facilitate and lead root cause analysis investigations to eliminate failures using industry-recognized methods.
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations, which may include capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues, by applying data analysis techniques (statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, fault tree analysis, Six Sigma methodology, etc.), root cause analysis (RCA) and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA).
• Optimize equipment maintenance strategies based on risk (e.g., PM, PdM, Part availability, TPM, OAC, OEM support).
• Develop, maintain, and update essential guidance on maintenance and reliability documentation (e.g., SOP, Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Condition-based maintenance, KPIs) for critical equipment.
• Help to develop future functionality of our CMMS system in conjunction with CMMS administration team and site operation teams.
• Identifies chronic equipment deficiencies and PM gaps through 'Bad Actor' analysis and reporting.
• Manage a robust life cycle asset management program for critical assets across our facilities and lab equipment portfolio.
• Support the capital improvement process for new equipment installations and upgrades by ensuring design-for-reliability and design-for-maintainability concerns are incorporated.
• Provide reliability maintenance input to Project Engineering Design and equipment selection through the application of Life Cycle Costing.
• Actively participate and provide input and feedback for the Charles River Safety Program to meet Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements dependent on regional requirements.
• Comply with requirements from Charles River Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements dependent on regional requirements.
• Participate and provide support for audits.

• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering or related discipline.
• Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in an equivalent or related position with knowledge of reliability improvement techniques, problem-solving, and maintenance strategies and 2-5 years of experience working in a 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 Certification/Licensure: Certified Reliability Engineer, or equivalent years of exp in the field.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate well in both oral and written reports.
• Able to speak French strongly preferred. Excellent collaboration, and persuasion skills with the ability to lead teams of individuals who have diverse backgrounds and opinions.
• Ability to interact professionally and comfortably with Senior Leadership. Proficient in CMMS (Maximo an advantage), BMS, project scheduling, Power BI, MS Office Suite.

The pay range for this position is $100K -140K USD annually. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.

Lead - We lead when we advocate our purpose and model our values, when we deliver innovation, when we embrace change, and when we appreciate and celebrate the great work of others.

Care - We show we care when we respect each other, our animals and the communities where we work and live, when we create a positive healthy workplace, when we are mindful of our compliance standards, and when we choose to do the right thing.

Collaborate - We collaborate when we partner with each other and promote teamwork, when we communicate clearly and effectively across the hall or around the globe, and when we welcome all forms of diversity and encourage inclusiveness.

Own - We act like owners when we hold ourselves accountable for our actions, when we respond to internal and external client needs with speed and accuracy, when we set and achieve meaningful goals, and when we strive towards continuous improvement.

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.

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.

We're committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position, these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work-life balance flexibility.

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 disability status.

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 This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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