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Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands:

Bristol Myers Squibb has been active in the Dutch market for over 50 years, employing people across a range of activities and business units in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

The Netherlands is also home to our first European Cell Therapy facility, located at the Leiden Bio Science Park, the largest life sciences cluster of The Netherlands. This new state of the art facility is focused on commercial manufacturing with capabilities for multi-product Cell Therapy manufacturing. You can become part of this exciting journey. Check out this video if you want to know more about it!

The Netherlands has everything it takes to become the medicines hub of Europe, the so-called Boston by the North Sea. As we continue to expand our footprint by building this new site, we are looking to grow our team.

Would you like to become an important chain in our worldwide network to bring this new personalized treatment to patients suffering from blood cancer? Join us and be a game changer!

For more information about Bristol Myers Squibb Netherlands, visit us at bms.com/nl or careers.bms.com/nl

Position Summary:

The Director, Facilities & Engineering (F&E) provides leadership and oversight to Engineering, Maintenance & Reliability, Calibration/Metrology, Qualification/Validation and Facilities Services for the Leiden Cell Therapy facilities.

The core responsibility of the Director of F&E is to ensure a validated and compliant state of operation for systems and equipment, generation and delivery of utilities at peak efficiency, keeping our facilities in a state of compliance, as well as ensuring customer satisfaction by providing facilities management services to fulfill requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Directs all components of the F&E organization, which includes: Facilities, Engineering, Maintenance, Calibration and Metrology, CQV, Capital Project and the IFM partner/s for the Leiden cell therapy site.
• Sets high standards, monitors and implements improvements for safety for F&E work and for the facility.
• Sets high standards for compliance to meet and exceed regulatory agency requirements related to Cell Therapy manufacture facility and assure compliance with BMS Directives including staff training, cGMP, quality systems documentation, change control, operational variance, and failure investigation.
• Ensure reliable, predictable, and compliant operation of all critical facilities, utilities, and equipment to enable uninterrupted GMP manufacturing and patient supply, by proactively preventing failures, strengthening preventive and predictive maintenance, and embedding reliability as a core capability within the F&E organization.
• Develops and leads a high-performance management team responsible for operating and maintaining an audit-ready facility at all times; directs the recruitment and development of all F&E staff.
• Directs the monitoring and management of outcomes for services performed by contracted business partners, in coordination with global services (Facilities and Engineering).
• Develops annual operating budget/staffing levels, manages operations to achieve them and proactively looks for opportunities to reduce costs.
• Directs the management of the sites’ future requirements for, and fulfilment performance of, locally provided contract services.
• Directs the planning and coordination of the capital projects for the Leiden cell therapy Site, including the development and implementation of the strategic plan, capital spending plan and site master plan.

Reporting Relationship Reporting to the Leiden Site head

Qualifications & Experience

• Knowledge of science/engineering generally attained through studied resulting in a B.S. in engineering, a related discipline or its equivalent. A master’s degree in a relevant discipline is desired.
• A minimum of 10-15+ years of experience in engineering field or equivalent, preferably in a biopharma manufacturing complex, documented by a solid history of technical accomplishments and a proven track in maintenance, reliability, facility/utilities operations, validation and capital project management.
• A strong practical knowledge of process equipment and the technologies related to cell culture manufacturing and both clinical and commercial production.
• Experience in directing the design and construction of major office, laboratory and process manufacturing buildings including design, procurement and contracts, including experience in the negotiations and structures of contracts and major agreements.
• Proficiency in developing and managing departmental budgets to successfully meet organizational commitments within operating budget guidelines, including the development and implementation of capital spending plans

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On-site Protocol

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