Head of Maintenance and Reliability
Location: Billingham, UK
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies is seeking a Head of Maintenance and Reliability to lead the site-wide maintenance, calibration, utilities, and asset reliability strategy at our Billingham campus. You will build and lead high-performing teams, ensure GMP-compliant asset performance, and drive reliability excellence that safeguards product supply, quality, and safety.
What you’ll do
- Ensure equipment, utilities, and facilities are maintained, calibrated, and available to meet production and process development schedules—supporting on-time batch starts and audit readiness.
- Lead the site’s maintenance and reliability strategy and roadmap, including routine optimization, shutdown/turnaround planning, new asset introduction, and aging asset management.
- Establish and track KPIs to continuously improve uptime, cost, quality, safety, and compliance across maintenance and calibration programs.
- Serve as the primary liaison with manufacturing operations, engineering, QA/Validation, EHS, Facilities/Utilities, Supply Chain, IT/OT/Automation, and external partners/OEMs.
- Own maintenance standards, procedures, CMMS governance, calibration programs, and engineering stores/spare parts strategy.
- Lead safe systems of work and Permit-to-Work processes; ensure technical capability for statutory compliance in pressure systems, electrical, lifting equipment, and safe management of engineering work.
- Build and mentor a multi-disciplinary team (maintenance, reliability, utilities, calibration/metrology, planners); drive root cause analysis and reliability improvements.
- Manage third-party service providers and contractors; set quality expectations and handover standards for installations and projects.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial) or related field; equivalent military/industrial experience considered.
- 12+ years of maintenance/reliability leadership in GMP-regulated manufacturing (biotech/biopharma preferred), including leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated ownership of planning/scheduling, work control, CMMS, and performance metrics.
- Strong knowledge of cGMPs, change control, validation/qualification, deviations/CAPAs, and audit readiness.
- Hands-on experience with critical utilities and process systems typical to biotech, cleanroom HVAC/controls, and sterile/aseptic support systems.
Why join FDB
- Play a pivotal role in protecting patient supply and product quality through world-class reliability.
- Lead a talented, mission-driven team at scale with strong executive sponsorship.
- Influence capital strategy and modernization of a critical biomanufacturing site.
- Competitive salary, with 35 days holiday (Not including Public Holidays), annual incentive plan and competitive pension: you contribute 4–9%+ and we contribute 7–12% (up to 21% total), with flexible investment/retirement options.
Equal Opportunity Employer Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.
