Sr Utilities Engineer

CSL

Kankakee, IL

Pay: $102,000-$135,000/yr

Shift: Full time

**Entity:** CSL Behring

**Job Category:** Engineering

**Job Family:** Utilities

**Job Type:** Full Time

**Location****:** Kankakee, Illinois, United States

**Employer Reference:** R-291623

**Job Description**

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**Position Purpose:**

The Sr. Utilities Engineer is responsible for oversight of design, engineering, safety, and quality support in the following utility equipment systems:

Clean Steam, Purified Water, WFI and RO Systems, HVAC Systems, Plant Steam Systems, Process Chillers, Compressed/Process Air, Nitrogen, Refrigeration Process, Alcohol Distillation and Recovery Process systems for the Kankakee facility.

This individual will work closely with a cross-functional team to meet the needs of the groups they support.

**Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:**

Technical lead accountable for the operational improvement of the utility systems based upon industry trends and emerging technologies:

• Responsible for compliance and operational improvement of equipment systems
• Provide engineering support to address operational / compliance issues and to ensure equipment is maintained at a level required to provide high reliability maximizing useful life
• Implement measures to improve equipment that support utility operations
• Provide technical expertise and industry best practices
• Lead engineering efforts to resolve equipment and operational problems and ensure problem solving techniques are appropriately utilized
• Prepares User Requirements Specifications (URS), Risk Assessments, Safety Assessments and participates in validation activities including review of IQ/OQ protocols, executions and summary reports.
• Provide technical support to operations, maintenance, manufacturing, automation, quality assurance, validation, reliability engineering and project engineering.
• Support the planning and execution of activities by working in cross-functional teams assisting in driving projects to completion to meet timeline and budget objectives
• Manage system documentation including creation, review, updates, and approval of technical specifications, operating procedures, and system drawings.

Accountable for the Utility Reliability Program:

• Execute the maintenance strategy for new and modified equipment
• Management of CMMS data integrity and execution of Reliability Centered Maintenance Improvements
• Develop preventative maintenance procedures for utility systems in collaboration with the Reliability Engineering department ensuring maintenance programs are implemented
• Continuous Improvement of maintenance PM’s, BOM’s and Spare Parts
• Review and lead utility equipment replacement as part of the life cycle improvement process and continuous improvement initiative planning.
• Oversees reconditioning of the equipment to restore to like-new condition
• Performs upgrades to improve safety, operational performance, and extend operational life

Collaborates with local and global partners to develop asset management plan that includes capital requests

Manage and monitor KPI’s:

• Ensure compliance with site and global indicators
• Measure and ensure compliant performance in Safety, Quality and Reliability
• Demonstrate success of preventative maintenance improvements through performance reports, dashboards and metrics
• Utilize control systems to monitor, trend and verify equipment performance and downtime

Ensure cGMP compliance of all utility systems to meet regulatory compliance:

• Equipment is maintained at a level required to provide high reliability maximizing useful life
• Review environmental monitoring and laboratory sample release test results
• Manage deviations, investigations (CAPA’s and OOT’s) with on-time closure
• Safely resolve process problems, improve efficiency, reduce waste, and maximize uptime production
• Execute root cause analysis during investigations
• Lead investigations as the subject matter expert providing technical expertise for all phases associated with the utility systems
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of the utility drawings, flow diagrams and Standard Operational documents.
• Perform utility inspections for quality assurance on a periodic basis and initiate any procedures necessary to resolve problems
• Responsible for utility inspections (GEMBA’s/audits) for quality assurance on a periodic basis.
• Responsible to ensure training, deviations and investigations related to utility systems have on-time closure and KPI performance metrics are met
• Responsible for change control activities, the implementation of CAPA items, quality investigations and determine/implement long lasting corrective actions and preventative measures.

Support all scheduled capital projects related to utility system shutdowns, tie-ins and system startup.

Demonstrate continuous improvement with respect to increasing job knowledge and proficiency related to biopharmaceutical industry engineering best