Operations Engineer

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · Tuas, Singapore

Operations Engineer at Pfizer Singapore responsible for analyzing and designing operational sequences and workflows to improve production facilities, ensuring compliance with regulations and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). The role involves process monitoring, safety and environmental improvements, process reliability, validation, technology transfers, cost control, and inventory management. Key activities include supporting plant operations for API manufacturing, collaborating on investigations, driving continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring EHS and GMP compliance, executing production and maintenance activities, troubleshooting processing issues, and participating in commissioning and validation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Your expertise in the manufacturing domain will help in analyzing and designing a sequence of operations and workflow to improve the company's production facilities within regulations and Good Manufacturing Practices.
  2. You will be involved in activities, such as process monitoring, safety and environmental improvements, process reliability improvements, validation, and technology transfers.
  3. You will also conduct studies pertaining to cost control and reduction, inventory control, and production record systems.
  4. On the basis of these studies, you will develop and implement plans and programs for facility modifications and revisions to operating methods.
  5. Support plant operations in the end to end manufacture (inclusive of changeover) of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Skills

Required

  • Degree in Engineering, preferably in Chemical Engineering
  • Demonstrated ability to lead people or processes
  • Laboratory experience required (testing, data reviewing, or other supporting activities for laboratory operation)
  • Basic functional and technical knowledge of the discipline
  • Good organization skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to document clearly and concisely
  • Effective written and oral communication
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Application

Nice to have

  • 2-3 years’ experience in a relevant manufacturing environment in Pharmaceutical / Chemical / Petrochemical industry.
  • Indirect leadership experience (e.g. testing/team Subject Matter Expert project lead, training lead)
  • Demonstrate proficiency in computerized systems, experience and use of Laboratory Information Management System and Quality Tracking System

What the JD emphasized

  • manufacturing domain
  • production facilities
  • regulations
  • Good Manufacturing Practices
  • process monitoring
  • safety and environmental improvements
  • process reliability improvements
  • validation
  • technology transfers
  • cost control
  • inventory control
  • production record systems
  • facility modifications
  • operating methods
  • plant operations
  • Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • continuous improvement initiatives
  • operational effectiveness
  • regulatory compliance
  • environmental, health, and safety (EHS) regulations
  • audit-readiness
  • manufacturing targets
  • equipment downtime
  • pre-manufacturing checks
  • workflow efficiency
  • troubleshooting activities
  • deviations
  • batch record review
  • cleaning instructions review
  • Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodology
  • risk assessments
  • job safety assessments (JSAs)
  • HAZOP reviews
  • commissioning, qualification, and validation (CQV) activities
  • emergency response team (ERT)
  • changeover cleaning documentation
  • cleaning validation
  • manufacturing campaigns
  • rotating shift basis
  • alarm responses
  • interlock bypass
  • Structured On the Job Training (SOJT)
  • Instructor Led Training (ILT)
  • gemba
  • good save initiative
  • cGMP
  • GDP
  • changeover cleaning
  • Degree in Engineering, preferably in Chemical Engineering
  • Laboratory experience required
  • Demonstrate proficiency in computerized systems
  • experience and use of Laboratory Information Management System and Quality Tracking System