Join our Operations team as a Maintenance Engineering Manager at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play a crucial role in ensuring that our facility operates smoothly and complies with GMP.

The Maintenance Engineering Manager is essential for maintaining the reliability and efficiency of the Haverhill manufacturing operations, ensuring that all equipment and facilities meet the stringent standards required for producing high-quality products.

Your Responsibilities

You will:

• Manage maintenance planning and coordination

• Oversea preventative maintenance shutdowns

• Supervise calibration activities

• Manage spare parts and inventory

• Comply with cGMP documentation requirements

• Write and manage change controls, maintenance work orders, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• Manage and develop maintenance technicians (both electrical and mechanical).

• Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, and training for staff.
• Drive continuous improvement in maintenance practices.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to enhance product quality and equipment reliability.
• Lead cross-functional teams for maintenance repairs and upgrade projects.
• Act as the technical project manager for various maintenance initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., MHRA, FDA).
• Participate in audits and implement quality systems within the maintenance function.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing and facility operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.

Our Company

EUROAPI is focused on reinventing active ingredient solutions to sustainably meet customers’ and patients’ needs around the world. We are a leading player in active pharmaceutical ingredients with approximately 200 products in our portfolio, offering a large span of technologies, while developing innovative molecules through our Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) activities.

Taking action for health by enabling access to essential therapies inspires our 3,450 people every day. With strong research and development capabilities and six manufacturing sites all located in Europe (Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf and Vertolaye in France, Brindisi in Italy, Frankfurt in Germany, Budapest in Hungary and Haverhill in the UK), EUROAPI ensures API manufacturing of the highest quality to supply customers in more than 80 countries.

EUROAPI is listed on Euronext Paris.

The EUROAPI Haverhill (UK) site has been established for forty years, located fifteen miles east of Cambridge and sixty miles north of London, within the golden triangle. It employs over 250 people and has built a strong reputation in Flow Chemistry, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Spray Drying and as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO). Haverhill is proud to house the world’s largest, continuous production, pharmaceutical spray dryer and performs secondary packaging and release activities for oncology and rare disease medicines supporting global markets. The site also offers a contract testing and release facility within its laboratories.

Our Requirements

• Relevant qualification in Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineering (Degree desirable)

• Strong knowledge of GMP and regulatory requirements.
• Proven experience in maintenance management systems (e.g., CMMS).
• Excellent leadership and team management skills.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement and manage projects effectively.
• Strong technical expertise in mechanical, electrical, and utility systems.

Your Benefits

• Attractive Salary

• Competitive benefits

• Training & Development

• Onsite subsidised restaurant

Culture & Values at EUROAPI

We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture enables career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values set out how we achieve our goals and help us "do it right".

Diversity & Inclusion

EUROAPI is committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement. We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.

We are Disability Confident - Committed which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.

Environment, Social and Governance

We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.

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