Position Title : Engineering Site Lead – Drug Product Facility
Reports To : Head of Engineering – Vaccines Business Vertical
Function : Engineering & Maintenance
Location : Genome Valley, Shamirpet _SEZ Hyderabad
Facility Type : Drug Product (DP) manufacturing – supporting CDMO operations

Areas of Scope
Formulation, Filling, Packing, Warehouse, QC, Utilities etc
Team
Large, multi-disciplinary engineering & maintenance organization

Role Purpose
Lead the complete engineering and maintenance function for a Drug Product (DP) manufacturing site operating within a Vaccine MFG /CDMO setting, ensuring reliable, compliant, and cost-effective operation of all process areas and utilities. The role owns asset reliability, GMP engineering compliance, expansion project delivery, and the development of a large multi-disciplinary engineering team, with the mandate to build a world-class maintenance culture that consistently meets client, quality, and regulatory expectations.

Scope of Responsibility




The role provides engineering leadership and maintenance support across the full DP value chain and site infrastructure:
• Process & support areas: formulation, aseptic/sterile filling, packing, warehouse, QC laboratories, and the complete utilities envelope.
• Utilities: HVAC and cleanrooms, purified water / WFI, clean steam, compressed air and process gases, chilled water, BMS/EMS, and power distribution.
• Projects: engineering scope on capital projects is limited to expansion projects (capacity additions, line/area upgrades, and de-bottlenecking) rather than new greenfield facility builds.

Key Responsibilities
Maintenance & Asset Reliability
• Establish and drive a world-class maintenance system built on preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), TPM, and a mature CMMS.
• Improve equipment reliability, OEE, and MTBF/MTTR; minimize unplanned downtime and breakdowns.
• Own spares strategy, criticality analysis, and asset lifecycle / obsolescence managem

📌 Engineering Site Lead – Drug Product Facility (Hyderabad)
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