Manager- Maintenance Planning

AstraZeneca•Rockville, MD

About The Position

As Manager of Maintenance Planning and Master Data, you will play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients' lives. This role offers one of the most exciting, fast-paced, challenging, and rewarding work environments in the world of operations, supply chain, and manufacturing.

Requirements

High School Diploma
Minimum seven (7) years industrial maintenance experience in a GMP facility to include both facility and process related equipment and its controls or an equivalent
SAP/CMMS System Expertise
At least 1 year in a lead or supervisory capacity
Strong organizational and leadership skills
Extensive knowledge of cGMP standards, in particular manufacturing, laboratory and requirements for computer systems (GAMP) and data integrity
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must have a valid driver’s license

Responsibilities

Provide leadership, governance, and administrative oversight for the site maintenance planning program, ensuring maintenance processes are standardized, effective, and aligned with business, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Serve as the site SME for SAP and/or CMMS, including work order workflows, preventive maintenance setup, master data quality, asset hierarchy, task list management, reporting, scheduling support, and user guidance.
Supervise maintenance planning and scheduling practices to ensure preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance work is properly prioritized, scoped, planned, resourced, scheduled, and documented.
Ensure work orders are created, reviewed, planned, approved, accomplished, and closed in accordance with site procedures, data integrity expectations, and GMP documentation standards.
Develop, maintain, and report key maintenance metrics and KPIs such as schedule compliance, PM completion, planned vs. unplanned work, backlog health, wrench time, work order aging, emergency work levels, and asset performance indicators.
Analyze maintenance and equipment performance trends to identify risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. Recommend actions that improve reliability, planning quality, schedule adherence, and maintenance effectiveness.
Provide administrative guidance and oversight for the MRO program, including spare parts strategy, inventory alignment, critical spares identification, storeroom coordination, material planning support, and optimization of maintenance-material workflows.
Partner with Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and Validation teams to align maintenance strategies, improve execution, and support production needs.
Ensure maintenance planning and documentation practices meet GMP, data integrity, procedural, and audit-readiness requirements. Support investigations, deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and regulatory inspections as applicable.
Develop, maintain, and improve maintenance procedures, planning standards, CMMS/SAP work instructions, and user training materials. Coach users and collaborators on procedures for system use and maintenance workflow compliance.
Support oversight of external service providers and contractors related to maintenance planning, execution support, and materials coordination, ensuring alignment with site procedures and compliance expectations.