Manager, Plant Engineering and Maintenance

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

In this role, you will:

• Lead and manage people, technology, and financial resources within the department.
• Actively share knowledge and identify potential improvements in processes or products, taking risks to develop innovative ideas.
• Solve moderately complex problems within your expertise and assist with issues outside the department.
• Oversee operational activities to support the department's short-term goals and manage multiple projects involving cross-functional representatives.
• Recognize development needs in others, collaborate to create development plans, and manage the performance of direct reports through goal setting, coaching, and ongoing assessment.
• Solicit input, explain complex concepts, and persuade others to adopt a point of view while effectively sharing your own perspective and rationale.
• Provide technical engineering oversight for project execution plans and engineering studies for equipment component installation.
• Support programs and systems with procedures and training, ensuring compliance with regulatory and company requirements, including SOPs, cGMP, safety, quality, OSHA, and other standards.
• Develop strategies and methods to improve preventive maintenance processes and procedures, enhancing equipment performance and conducting equipment evaluations for new or replacement needs.
• Facilitate equipment-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations, govern maintenance planning and scheduling, foster teamwork, encourage colleague development, and provide salary planning and change management recommendations.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• BA/BS with at least 4 years of experience or MBA/MS with at least 2 years of experience or PhD/JD with any years of experience or associate's degree with at least 8 years of experience or high School Diploma (or Equivalent) with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• 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):

• Master's degree with relevant pharmaceutical experience.
• Industry experience with preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Experience in equipment-based Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations.
• Ability to develop and establish strategies and methods that improve preventive maintenance processes and procedures.
• 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 Information

Last date to apply: October 28th, 2026
Work Location Assignment: On Premise

 

 

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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