Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.
For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.
The Role & What You Will Be Doing
The Utilities Engineer is responsible for managing the operations of Filling, Packaging Lines, Autoclaves, Compounding equipment, Clean Utilities, HVAC, Water System, Gas distribution lines, ensuring routine compliance to relevant SOPs and coordinating with other departments and vendors.
Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Utilities Engineer role will make an impact:
1. Oversee and verify preventive maintenance (PM), calibration, and environmental qualification activities according to schedules and checklists.
2. Supervise maintenance technicians, including performance management, training on SOPs, and ensuring GMP compliance.
3. Plan and allocate manpower effectively to meet operational and maintenance needs.
4. Manage vendor selection, review risk assessments/method statements, ensure work permits, and monitor service quality.
5. Collaborate with manufacturing, QA, and participate in audits, MRBs, and qualification activities (URS, DQ, FAT, IQ, OQ, PQ).
6. Ensure compliance with EHS policies, proper PPE usage, and support implementation of global EHS initiatives.
7. Support facility and utility maintenance in filling areas, including routine inspections and building maintenance record reviews.
8. Oversee waste and hazardous material disposal in compliance with safety and environmental regulations.
9. Work with QA to manage deviations, change controls, impact assessments, CAPAs, and continuous improvement efforts.
10. Drive operational excellence by promoting 6S practices and preparing accurate daily and monthly maintenance reports.
About Your Skills & Experience
For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:
1. Minimum of a Bachelor's Engineering Degree and 5+ years’ experience in an engineering role preferably within the pharmaceutical/medical device industry. However, a combination of experience and/or education will be taken into consideration.
2. Ability to set clear goals, communicate these clearly and ensure progress to completion meeting predefined targets.
3. Ability to provide leadership, develop and train team members.
4. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
5. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with peers.
6. Ability to respond quickly to a changing production environment.
7. Structured skills to create and execute a preventative maintenance program that ensures plant and equipment reliability.
8. Accuracy and attention to detail.
9. Strong work ethic.
10. Ability to work cross-functionally with all other departments.
At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Benefits at Viatris
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:
* Excellent career progression opportunities.
* Work-life balance initiatives.
* Health insurance.
* Pension.
Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris
At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit Diversity and Inclusion.
Sustainability at Viatris
Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit Corporate Responsibility.
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