Career Category

Maintenance

Job Description

Role Description:

The Principal Engineer, Asset Management, is responsible for execution of asset lifecycle management standards, processes, and practices across Engineering and Facilities. This role ensures assets are managed in a compliant, reliable, and cost-effective manner throughout their lifecycle.

Reporting to the Director, Engineering Systems, Technology & Reporting, this role supports global asset and equipment management, global performance and reliability, and associated equipment strategy.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Owns execution of asset lifecycle management practices from design through retirement.

• Ensures optimal maintenance strategies in accordance with preventive, predictive, or proactive strategies.

• Monitors asset and equipment performance as well as network indicators (e.g. GMP non-conformance or safety event) to ensure performance criteria are met.

• Leads or participates in root cause analysis efforts and manages applicable corrective and preventive actions.

• Defines and applies asset management standards, criticality models, and best practices.

• Owns applicable documentation (Standard Operating Procedures, Engineering Standards, Guidance documents, etc.).

• Ensures changes to asset management remain aligned with equipment-specific GMP validated foundation as well as design safety controls.

• Plans end-of-life asset strategy to ensure minimal unfavorable impact to clients.

• Ensures asset data supports inspections, audits, and regulatory requirements.

• Partners with CMMS owner, global system owners, and data teams to enable lifecycle insights and performance optimization.

• Enables asset reliability, maintenance optimization, and lifecycle cost analysis.

• Drives consistency and standardization of asset management practices across sites.

• Solicits network best practices as well as internal and external benchmarking to ensure assets are optimally maintained and perform according to user requirements.

• Strategically deploys Artificial Intelligence to improve compliant equipment performance as well as improve network-wide understanding of equipment-related design, build, operate, and retire information.

Basic Qualifications

• Comes from Workday – AIN Team to Provide

Preferred/ Good to have Qualifications:

• Experience supporting assets and equipment within a highly regulated environment where appropriate maintenance and change control are critical.

• Experience managing facility and manufacturing asset and asset maintenance programs.

• Demonstrated experience improving asset performance, reliability, and value using data and collaborating with equipment engineering subject matter experts.

• Demonstrated ability to apply engineering principles to business processes, problems, and decisions.

• Proven experience managing multiple priorities, interdependencies, and competing demands while maintaining strong execution discipline.

• Data-driven mindset with experience using metrics, analytics, or insights to guide decisions and continuous improvement.

• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, including the ability to lead outcomes without direct authority.

• Experience partnering with Technology, Operations (e.g. Manufacturing and Engineering), Quality, Compliance, and Business stakeholders in regulated environments.

• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical, system, or data-driven topics to diverse audiences.

• Demonstrated capability to support change management, user adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Strong expertise in data governance, analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI), and collaboration tools (e.g., Teams, Share Point).

• Demonstrated experience translating client needs into program-controlled business processes.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional, and fast-paced global environment.

• Demonstrated experience leading global teams and partnering with enterprise Technology organizations.

• Experience working across regions and time zones with cultural awareness and adaptability.

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