Senior Facility Engineer
Job Description
About the Role:
As a Senior Facility Engineer you will leads complex facility engineering projects at Takeda’s Round Lake site to strengthen infrastructure reliability, optimize clean utilities, and improve operational efficiency. This role oversees major initiatives including cleanroom and production space modifications, upgrades to critical systems such as WFI, RO water, clean steam, process compressed air, and HVAC, and site-wide facility shutdowns. The Senior Facility Engineer collaborates across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Validation, and Maintenance; coordinates internal teams, external service providers, and landlord-managed resources; and uses KPIs to drive service excellence and reliability. The role also advances Takeda’s sustainability goals through energy reduction, utility optimization, and infrastructure improvements while supporting capital planning and long-term site strategy.
How you will contribute:
- Lead facility engineering projects that improve reliability, performance, compliance, and operational efficiency of critical facility and utility systems.
- Serve as the lead coordinator for annual facility shutdowns, including planning, scheduling, resource coordination, issue escalation, and execution oversight.
- Manage and support critical utility systems including HVAC, clean steam, WFI, RO water, compressed air, and related facility infrastructure.
- Develop and implement KPIs to monitor utility system performance, landlord-managed services, and facility reliability metrics.
- Lead facility-related change controls, risk assessments, deviations, investigations, and CAPA activities while ensuring compliance with GMP requirements.
- Manage external vendors, contractors, and service providers to ensure adherence to Takeda's safety, quality, and technical standards.
- Partner with Validation, Quality, Manufacturing, Maintenance, and Engineering teams to deliver compliant and sustainable engineering solutions.
- Support deployment and continuous improvement of engineering standards, procedures, documentation, and best practices.
- Provide technical expertise during regulatory inspections, internal audits, and quality assessments related to facility systems and infrastructure.
- Lead sustainability and energy reduction projects that support site performance goals and Takeda's environmental commitments.
- Develop project schedules, cost estimates, budgets, and implementation plans while ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget.
- Support facility security and infrastructure improvement projects, including access control and facility monitoring systems as needed.
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical resource for cross-functional teams.
- Identify risks proactively and implement mitigation strategies to support business continuity and operational excellence.
What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of engineering experience supporting facilities, utilities, infrastructure, or manufacturing operations within a regulated environment.
- Experience managing facility and utility-related engineering projects from planning through execution.
- Hands-on experience supporting HVAC systems and critical facility infrastructure.
- Experience working with clean utility systems, including WFI, RO water, clean steam, compressed air, or similar systems.
- Experience within GMP-regulated industries such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, food, chemical, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.
- Demonstrated experience supporting change controls, deviations, investigations, CAPAs, and engineering documentation.
- Proven project management experience, including scope development, scheduling, budgeting, and stakeholder management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and organizational levels.
- Ability to lead complex initiatives and drive results without direct supervisory authority.
- Pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing experience would be ideal
- Experience supporting cleanroom environments and aseptic manufacturing facilities and knowledge of facility shutdown planning and execution is preferred
- Experience managing external contractors and vendor relationships would be ideal
- Familiarity with sustainability initiatives, utility optimization, and energy management programs and supporting regulatory inspections and audits preferred
Important Considerations:
At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:
- In general, the position requires a combination of sedentary work and walking around observing conditions of the facility.
- Must be able to carry up to 20lbs, lift up to 25lbs, push/pull up to 25lbs (with assistance of material handling equipment).
- Must be able to stand and/or walk for an extended period between rooms and across the site.
- May require bending, twisting, reaching overhead, and/or squatting motions to perform certain tasks
- Repetitive motions with hands, wrists, turning head
- Indoor working conditions
- Will work around moving equipment and machinery.
- May be required to work in controlled environments requiring special safety gear or gowning; will be required to follow gowning requirements and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet, and body. No make-up, jewelry, nail polish, or artificial fingernails may be worn in the manufacturing environment.
- May be required to work in confined spaces/areas.
- Some Clean Room and/or cool/hot storage conditions.
- May be exposed to and must not be allergic to cephalosporin.
- Must be able to work on multiple shifts, including weekends, to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation as needed.
- Must be able to work non-traditional work hours or work extended hours, including weekends and holidays, as needed.
More about us:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
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Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
