Global Reliability & Maintenance Leader - CTD (REMOTE)

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Global Reliability & Maintenance Leader - CTD (REMOTE)

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Division/Site Specific Information

Role is fully remote and can be based in the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, or Illinois remote areas and reports to the Clinical Trials Division (CTD). CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time – a concept that we internally embrace as “There is a Patient Waiting.” Our outstanding blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more. Our more than 3000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Global Reliability & Maintenance Leader provides functional leadership for Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Excellence, and Asset Management across the CTD global network. The role establishes global strategy, standards, governance, and performance expectations to improve asset reliability, reduce unplanned downtime, optimize lifecycle cost, and mitigate operational risk. Working through Regional Engineering Directors and site Engineering and Maintenance teams, the role leads deployment of CTD's Maintenance Excellence roadmap, CMMS strategy, asset criticality, preventive and predictive maintenance, spare-parts optimization, and reliability performance management.

The position operates through influence in a global matrix organization and serves as CTD's subject matter leader for maintenance and reliability capability.

A Day in the Life:

Reliability & Maintenance Strategy

• Serve as CTD's global functional leader for Reliability and Maintenance Excellence, establishing the strategy, standards, governance, and multi-year roadmap for asset reliability and maintenance across the global network.

• Lead deployment and continuous maturation of the PSG Maintenance Excellence framework across CTD, including site assessments, asset criticality, maintenance strategies, PM optimization, planning/scheduling, and reliability practices.

• Partner with Regional Engineering Directors and site leadership to assess maintenance maturity, identify performance gaps and risks, and develop prioritized improvement roadmaps appropriate to site complexity and business needs.

• Drive a reliability-centered culture across CTD, shifting the organization from reactive maintenance toward proactive, preventive, predictive, and condition-based asset management.

Asset Reliability & Lifecycle Management

• Establish standardized asset reliability and lifecycle-management practices including asset criticality, failure-mode analysis, preventive maintenance optimization, predictive maintenance, and equipment end-of-life planning.

• Develop CTD's predictive and condition-based maintenance strategy, evaluating technologies such as vibration monitoring, thermal imaging, oil analysis, and other condition-monitoring solutions and defining scalable use cases.

• Partner with Engineering and Operations to reduce critical asset risk, using reliability data, root-cause analysis, failure trends, and lifecycle information to prioritize corrective actions and capital investments.

• Integrate reliability and maintenance requirements into site master planning and capital planning, ensuring asset condition, obsolescence, maintainability, and lifecycle cost inform long-term investment decisions.

Maintenance Systems, Data & Performance

• Establish the CTD strategy and governance for CMMS and maintenance data, including asset hierarchy, work management, preventive maintenance, spare parts, failure coding, and data-quality expectations.

• Lead standardization and optimization of Maximo/CMMS capabilities across CTD, partnering with sites and enterprise functions to enable consistent maintenance processes and reliable performance data.

• Define a global Maintenance & Reliability KPI framework, including measures for equipment downtime, PM effectiveness, schedule compliance, asset reliability, maintenance cost, and other indicators of program maturity and performance.

• Use network performance data and benchmarking to identify systemic opportunities, prioritize improvement initiatives, share best practices, and measure progress against the CTD Maintenance Excellence roadmap.

Maintenance Excellence & Capability Building

• Establish global standards for maintenance planning, shutdowns/turnarounds, spare-parts management, and critical equipment maintenance, enabling consistent execution across CTD sites.

• Build site and regional reliability capability through assessment tools, training, coaching, communities of practice, standard work, and sharing of lessons learned and best practices.

• Lead cross-functional reliability improvement initiatives with Engineering, Operations, Quality, EHS, Procurement, and site leadership to improve uptime, reduce lifecycle cost, and mitigate operational risk.

• Provide expert consultation and escalation support for significant equipment failures, systemic reliability issues, complex root-cause investigations, and major asset-management decisions.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree, and advance degree is highly preferred.

• Preferred Fields of Study: Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical) or related technical discipline, or Business Administration.

• Preferred: Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) – ASQ, Six Sigma or Lean certification.

​Experience

• 10 years of progressive experience in Reliability Engineering, Maintenance, Asset Management, Engineering, or Operations within manufacturing or another highly regulated environment.

• Experience in regulated industries (pharma, biotech, medical device).

• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying Maintenance & Reliability programs across multiple sites or business units.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong business acumen with ability to analyze performance metrics and drive operational improvements

• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English

• Proficiency with business systems (MS Office, CMMS such as Maximo, SAP, Blue Mountain, or similar platforms)

• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization across multiple sites and functions

• Ability to travel 30–50% globally

• Valid passport required for international travel

• Strong expertise in RCM, asset criticality, PM optimization, predictive/condition-based maintenance, CMMS, spare-parts management, root-cause analysis, and asset lifecycle management.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex global programs and influence site, regional, and senior functional leaders within a matrix organization.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards