
Global Lead, Technology Operations & Facility Fit
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Job Description
About the role:
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Set enterprise governance for equipment operations and facility-fit innovation to improve competitiveness, ensure compliance, and protect reliable patient supply across regulatory, quality, capacity, and environment, health and safety requirements.
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Serve as the primary interface for manufacturing sites, driving equipment/technology operations support and resolving process and plant-engineering issues.
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Lead facility-fit assessments for manufacturing equipment and facilities to enable network strategy, capital investments, lifecycle management, and technology transfer.
How you will contribute:
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Lead manufacturing and plant equipment improvement programs to deliver right-first-time production, including contamination control initiatives.
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Evaluate equipment operations and implement improvements to increase efficiency, reliability, and product quality (e.g., throughput, overall equipment effectiveness).
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Lead facility and process-equipment evaluations and define design selection criteria to support network strategy, capital investments, lifecycle management, and technology transfer, within regulatory requirements.
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Drive technology innovation through subject matter expert working groups, ensuring standardization/commonality, sound solution selection , and effective troubleshooting.
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Build and maintain equipment capacity modelling to monitor utilization , identify bottlenecks, and unlock capacity across the manufacturing network.
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Support capital investment and business case development for equipment technology and facility fit, including benefits realization and funding logic.
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Act as the enterprise integrator across Manufacturing, Manufacturing Science and Technology, Quality, Environment Health Safety and Sustainability, Supply Chain, Digital/DD&T, Procurement, and Finance, including executive oversight of critical supplier/partner ecosystems to unblock delivery and communicate strategy and progress .
What you bring to Takeda:
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Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical , Chemical, Process, Industrial or Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline required . Advanced degree in Engineering or MBA preferred.
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Demonstrated 10 + years of progressive technical competence and leadership experience in pharmaceutical engineering or similar industry with strong understanding of GxP compliance and EHS requirement s, including ICH, FDA , CMC, ISPE and PDA g uidance d ocuments.
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Demonstrated leadership capability with strong problem-solving mindset , decision ‑ making, and influencing skills; ability to lead in a global matrix organization; proven track record in driving alignment and managing change.
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Proven knowledge and experience in e ngineering t echnologies supporting product development and manufacturing , project execution , global process and facility engineering and the associated regulatory and quality requirements .
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Recognized as a problem-solver, creative and innovative thinker with s trong technical, interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
Locations
Zurich, SwitzerlandLexington, MA, USA - MA - Lexington
Base Salary Range:
CHF177,400.00 - CHF243,980.00For information about our benefits, please click here ( opens in new window) .
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular