Facilities Planning and Digitalization Specialist

Legend Biotech US•Raritan, NJ

6d•$96,267 - $126,351•Onsite

About The Position

Legend Biotech is seeking a Facilities Planning and Digitalization Specialist to join its Facilities & Engineering team in Raritan, New Jersey. The role supports the effectiveness and efficiency of Maintenance and Metrology operations through work planning, corrective maintenance coordination and scheduling, work order compliance, eCMMS optimization, materials readiness, data analysis, and continuous improvement. The specialist partners with Maintenance, Metrology, Scheduling, Operations, Engineering, Quality, eCMMS, Storeroom, Procurement, and external vendors. The position helps ensure work is adequately prepared, compliance risks are proactively managed, corrective maintenance is coordinated effectively, and work-management processes improve within a regulated manufacturing environment. The successful candidate is expected to independently identify risks and process gaps, coordinate cross-functional solutions, and use work-management data to drive sustainable improvements. The role makes day-to-day work-management decisions involving maintenance planning, corrective maintenance scheduling, work order compliance, materials coordination, and process improvements. Management or functional approval is required for significant GMP, procedural, budget, resource, or business-impacting decisions.

Requirements

Minimum 5–8 years of relevant experience in facilities, maintenance, metrology, maintenance planning or scheduling, engineering, reliability, or a related technical function.
Demonstrated experience with maintenance work management, including planning, corrective maintenance coordination, work order lifecycle, and backlog management.
Experience with eCMMS platforms such as IBM Maximo, SAP PM, or equivalent.
Working knowledge of preventive maintenance, calibration, corrective maintenance, spare parts and material planning, and work order compliance.
Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and cross-functional coordination skills.
Working knowledge of GMP, GDP, data integrity, deviations or nonconformances, CAPA, and audit or inspection readiness.
Experience with Power BI, Power Query, or similar data-analysis and reporting tools.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and demonstrated ability to analyze maintenance and operational data.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Life Sciences, or a related discipline is preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and improve executable work plans for preventive maintenance, calibration, corrective maintenance, and other maintenance activities, identifying labor, materials, tools, vendor support, documentation, access, and operational requirements.
Establish and improve standardized job plans and work packages with technicians and supervisors, incorporating execution experience and lessons learned.
Review upcoming Maintenance and Metrology workload to identify material, resource, vendor, production-window, and compliance constraints.
Support planning and coordination of maintenance activities, equipment outages, vendor services, and work requiring cross-functional or off-shift support.
Coordinate and schedule corrective maintenance based on priority, asset availability, resource requirements, and business needs.
Monitor the corrective maintenance backlog and drive aging, priority, and business-critical work toward execution and closure, escalating barriers and risks as appropriate.
Partner with PM/CAL scheduling resources to evaluate work readiness, workload, resource capacity, and operational constraints for balanced and executable schedules.
Drive work order compliance through routine review of upcoming, open, aging, due, and past-due work orders; identify risks and coordinate recovery actions through closure.
Lead routine work order compliance reviews with Maintenance and Metrology teams to communicate risks, remove barriers, establish actions, and drive accountability.
Review work order documentation and closure practices for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, traceability, and adherence to procedures, GDP, data integrity, and GMP requirements.
Support investigations, nonconformances, CAPAs, audit observations, and inspection readiness by providing maintenance history, work-order data, trends, and work-management expertise.
Assess parts and material requirements and coordinate with Storeroom, Procurement, technicians, OEMs, and vendors to improve material readiness and identify appropriate spare-parts inventory needs.
Partner with the eCMMS team to improve job plans, equipment bills of materials, asset master data, PM/CAL records, workflows, and work-management data quality.
Analyze Maintenance and Metrology data to identify backlog trends, recurring corrective work, execution delays, workload constraints, compliance gaps, and improvement opportunities.
Develop and maintain reports, trackers, KPIs, and workload forecasts covering work order compliance, corrective maintenance backlog, work readiness, resource needs, and maintenance performance.
Identify systemic work-management issues and implement sustainable improvements focused on compliance, work readiness, execution efficiency, and Maintenance and Metrology performance.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one.
Eight weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment.
Paid time off including vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and eleven company holidays.
Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
Life and AD&D insurance.
Short- and long-term disability coverage.
Legal assistance.
Supplemental plans including pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance.
Voluntary commuter benefits.
Family planning and care resources.
Well-being initiatives.
Peer-to-peer recognition programs.
Performance-based bonus and/or equity for employees in eligible roles.