Assets Maintenance & Industrial IT Manager in Ghent, Belgium

Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking an Assets Maintenance & Industrial IT Manager to join our CAR-T team located in Ghent.

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CAR-T is an innovative treatment, which uses the power of the patient’s own immune system. A patient’s T-cells are genetically modified to eliminate cancer cells. This ground-breaking, innovative technology provides hopeful prospects to patients where other therapies have failed or fail to provide adequate results.

Johnson & Johnson entered into a global collaboration agreement with Legend Biotech to develop, manufacture and commercialize ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel). Through our strategic partnership, we look to advance the promise of an immunotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma !

The Engineering & Technical Services organization provides ownership and oversight for the entire asset portfolio and associated business processes for Janssen’s Advanced Therapies Supply Chain globally.

The Maintenance and Industrial IT Manager is responsible for providing technical in-depth expertise, leveraging best practices, oversight and developing internal as well as external partnerships with focus on Maintenance and Calibration (M&C) and industrial IT systems within the CAR-T EMEA program serving the Beerse and the Ghent sites. The role will oversee the day-to-day business of Industrail IT activities and ensure flawless liaison with the different teams, vendors, sites, and stakeholders. In addition, the role holder creates and sustains continuous procedural improvements to boost efficiency of M&C activities.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong track record in manufacturing asset maintenance and industrial IT systems, business acumen, proactive communication, and a willingness to be hands-on in key aspects of M&C tasks. The role requires the development of strong partnerships and strong interfacing with Operations, Quality, Environment Health & Safety as well as 3rd party partners.

The position will be based in Ghent, Belgium – with the ability to work out of Beerse one or two days/week.

Tasks and Responsibilities include:

• Ensures flawless execution of planned preventive and corrective maintenance and calibration activities for manufacturing and laboratory equipment as well as facilities and utilities

• Drives the establishment of a holistic, balanced RCM-based M&C strategy across the asset portfolio including the translation into execution and continuous improvement

• Ensures that technical issues or roadblocks are anticipated and resolved as early, and as fast as possible incl. lessons learned

• Supports investigations, corrective and preventive actions towards successful timely and compliant closure

• Ensures M&C activities follow all applicable cGMPs, global regulatory requirements, safety, environmental regulations, SOPs, WI’s and Company policies and corporate and technical standards

• Participate in compliance inspections/audits within area of responsibility Manage partnerships with contractors and vendors

• Establishes and manages KPI’s and tracking tools across the scope

• Manages a team responsible for the industrial IT systems to support the manufacturing processes, include the responsibility for CSV.

• Ensures industrial IT systems comply with Data Integrity requirements and cGMP

• Actively communicates regularly with project leads and project delivery stakeholders

Qualifications

• You acquired an Engineering or Life Sciences master’s degree,

• You are a team-player, sensitive to team dynamics and proven track record on influencing without authority, as you will work in close collaboration with our partner Legend Biotech and with our Johnson & Johnson Facility Management.

• A minimum of 5 years in leading maintenance and calibration activities, including industrial IT systems

• You believe in Asset Management, drive Reliability, and adopt high Quality standards, showing cost advantage.

• You have a start-up/can-do mindset, and you proactively search for solutions.

• In depth knowledge of guidelines and codes related to equipment, utilities and facilities (e.g. ISO, EN, ISPE) and applicable current GMP requirements (e.g. ICH, FDA, FAGG/FAMHP)

• Previous in-depth experience with SAP/PM

• Fluent in English (written and spoken), Dutch language at level C1 preferred

• Proactive, open team player with a service mindset

• Working regimen is approx. 60% Ghent, 30% Beerse, 10% travels

If you feel attracted by this challenge and want to be part of a successful and growing organization with excellent working conditions then please send us your online application (CV, Motivation Letter, Working References etc.).

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