Manager, Engineering

Use Your Power for Purpose

Whether you are involved in the design and development of manufacturing processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, engineering is crucial to ensuring customers and patients receive the medicines they need when they need them. By collaborating with our forward-thinking engineering team, you'll contribute to delivering medicines to the world more swiftly by envisioning new possibilities and taking decisive action.

Your technical skills will be crucial in ensuring our plants, utility systems, buildings, and equipment are operational. Pfizer depends on you for the maintenance, redesign, and repair of utilities in our facilities, including electrical, plumbing, carpentry, air conditioning, heating, painting, and general upkeep. You will be responsible for taking preventive and corrective actions, setting priorities, forecasting, and allocating resources for maintenance tasks. Your dedication and focus will enable Pfizer to reach new milestones and support patients worldwide.

What You Will Achieve

The Engineering and Maintenance Manager is responsible for managing department-level Engineering and Maintenance activities that support current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) manufacturing operations within assigned manufacturing process areas, utility systems, facilities, and supporting infrastructure. The position manages multiple ongoing work activities and projects of moderate complexity within the department, typically involving cross-functional representatives. The role is accountable for supporting safe, reliable, compliant, and efficient operation of assigned assets while providing direct leadership, coaching, technical guidance, and performance management to engineering and maintenance colleagues.

This position has accountability for some or all of the following within the department:

• People management, performance coaching, and colleague development
• Technical guidance for process equipment, utility systems, facilities, and supporting infrastructure

• Reliability, maintenance, and lifecycle support for assigned assets

• Execution of preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-centered maintenance activities

• Department-level project support for capital and non-capital projects

• Engineering and maintenance support of manufacturing operations, investigations, and change controls

• Compliance with cGMP, quality, safety, and internal standards

• Department continuous improvement and operational excellence activities
• Coordination of maintenance and engineering activities during planned shutdowns, outages, and operational readiness activities

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages department-level engineering and maintenance work activities and projects of moderate complexity that support manufacturing operations, utility systems, facilities, and infrastructure.
• Provides direct leadership, supervision, coaching, and performance management to engineering and maintenance colleagues. Establishes department goals, priorities, expectations, and development plans in alignment with short-term department objectives.

• Manages people, technical, and financial resources within the department, including recruitment, onboarding, training, goal setting, performance evaluation, salary administration support, workload prioritization, and colleague development.

• Provides technical and functional guidance for assigned manufacturing equipment, utility systems, facilities, and infrastructure to ensure systems are operated and maintained safely, reliably, and in compliance with internal standards and applicable regulations.

• Oversees maintenance and reliability programs within the department, including preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-centered maintenance approaches to support equipment availability and operational performance.

• Leads or supports capital and non-capital projects of moderate complexity, including scope development, budget and schedule tracking, procurement support, contractor coordination, commissioning, qualification, verification, and project closure activities.

• Supports investigations, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, engineering change management, technical documentation updates, and corrective and preventive actions related to equipment, facilities, utilities, and infrastructure systems.

• Ensures department engineering and maintenance activities comply with cGMP requirements, quality systems, safety standards, internal procedures, and applicable regulatory expectations. Supports audits and inspections through preparation, document review, technical input, and implementation of assigned commitments.

• Identifies and implements department process, maintenance, reliability, safety, compliance, and productivity improvements using established continuous improvement and operational excellence tools.

• Coordinates engineering and maintenance support for planned shutdowns, outages, maintenance campaigns, equipment upgrades, and operational readiness activities within assigned areas.

• Communicates effectively with department colleagues, cross-functional stakeholders, contractors, and internal partners to support alignment, timely execution, knowledge sharing, and issue resolution.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience; OR a PhD with 0+ years of experience; OR an associate's degree with 8 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 10 years of relevant experience. Relevant experience may be obtained in Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Technical Operations, Reliability, Quality, or related technical disciplines.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct supervisory, leadership, or people management experience is required.
• The candidate should possess strong technical, leadership, administrative, computer, AI, communication, and presentation skills. The candidate should also have demonstrated experience managing department-level engineering or maintenance activities, supporting manufacturing operations, guiding technical work, managing priorities, and coaching direct reports.
• The candidate should demonstrate strong technical and managerial competency, broad knowledge of engineering and maintenance practices, and the ability to manage people, resources, priorities, and moderately complex work within a department.
• Strong understanding of Process Safety Management elements.
• Proficiency in Enterprise Asset Management Solutions or other CMMS applications.
• Thorough knowledge of cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices), FDA regulations, and current pharmaceutical industry standards.
• Strong people management experience.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):

• Relevant pharmaceutical experience.
• A thorough understanding of cGMP regulations and quality systems is required. Experience supporting regulatory inspections, engineering change management, commissioning, qualification, verification, asset management, maintenance programs, and contractor coordination is preferred.
• Industry experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Experience in equipment-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations.
• Experience in providing technical engineering oversight to develop project execution plans and associated engineering studies for equipment component installation.
• Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use

 

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Incumbent’s primarily work environment is varied with time allocated inside and outside all buildings of this complex and includes potential exposure to hazardous materials and energy sources requires the appropriate use of Personal Protection Equipment  
• Work involves direct contact with utilities and process equipment including, but is not limited to, aseptic processing equipment, bioreactors, tangential flow equipment, centrifuge, chromatography columns, HEPA filters, high purity water systems including WFI, sanitary distribution, clean steam, process gases, and process control systems.  

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• The incumbent in this position would typically work a routine weekly work schedule but may be required to work nights, weekends, holidays, or extended hours to support manufacturing operations, shutdowns, maintenance activities, project execution, investigations, or emergency response activities.
• Travel to other Pfizer sites, industry conferences, supplier facilities, Factory Acceptance Testing activities, and vendor locations may occasionally be required. The position may require working in manufacturing, utility, maintenance, and construction environments where adherence to all applicable safety requirements is mandatory.

Other Job Details:

Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Relocation Assistance: NO

Last date to apply: 10/27/2026

 

 

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $116,000.00 to $193,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 15.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

 

 

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.

 

 

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