Associate Director/ Director Maintenance
FujiFilmPosition Overview The Associate /Director, Maintenance role , leads the site maintenance organization, with end-to-end accountability for maintenance operations, maintenance systems, reliability, spare parts, and MRO materials management. This role builds and sustains a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) compliant, inspection-ready maintenance program that delivers safe, reliable, and available process, utility, and facility equipment in support of large-scale biologics manufacturing. The Director shapes and executes the maintenance component of the site ramp-up strategy, scaling the organization, processes, and systems as the site moves through qualification into routine commercial manufacturing. Serving as the site’s senior maintenance leader, this role partners with manufacturing, quality, engineering, validation, supply chain, and EHS to balance equipment availability, compliance, and cost while also fostering a People First culture and building a high-performing team. Company Overview FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof. We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together! Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity. Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers Job Description What you'll do: Empowers, leads, and develops a high-performing, multi-disciplined team of leaders and technicians through servant leadership while fostering a culture of People First and continuous learning and development through real-time feedback, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning • Ensures team members are strategically placed in positions and on projects where their skills are effectively utilized and challenged while promoting individual growth and organizational productivity • Establishes and governs the site work management process, including work identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, backlog management, and schedule compliance, coordinating equipment access and maintenance windows with manufacturing • Owns the maintenance systems strategy, including the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) as the system of record for equipment master data, work orders, preventive maintenance plans, and spare parts ensuring data integrity (ALCOA+) and compliant use of electronic records • Sponsors the site reliability program and ensures equipment criticality assessment, reliability-centered maintenance, condition-based maintenance, mechanical integrity, and root cause failure analysis are deployed and translated into defensible maintenance strategies • Directs the spare parts program, including critical spares identification, a risk-based stocking strategy that accounts for both equipment criticality and inventory value, storeroom controls, and repair and return processes, in partnership with supply chain and procurement • Develops and executes the maintenance ramp-up plan in support of site capacity growth, including organizational design, headcount and hiring plans, shift coverage models, onboarding of newly …