Maintenance & Safety Manager

Role Summary

The Manager, Maintenance & Safety is responsible for leading the functions and systems that enable safe, reliable and 
compliant manufacturing operations at Bimeda’s Le Sueur, Minnesota facility. 

This role provides leadership for maintenance, facilities, utilities, asset reliability, environmental health and safety, 
contractor management, and infrastructure improvement activities. The Manager ensures that manufacturing 
equipment, facility systems, and supporting infrastructure are maintained in a condition that supports employee 
safety, product quality, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted production. 

The Manager will serve as a visible safety leader, partnering closely with teams and department leaders to strengthen 
the site’s safety culture, reduce workplace risk, investigate incidents, and ensure compliance with applicable 
occupational safety, environmental, and company requirements. 

The successful candidate will be a visible hands-on leader who combines strategic thinking with practical execution, 
develops high-performing teams, and establishes disciplined processes that support long-term manufacturing 
performance. 

Morning Shift : Monday - Friday

Role Specific Requirements

Safety Leadership and Culture 
• Lead the continued development and improvement of the site environmental health and safety program. 
• Establish visible safety leadership practices that promote employee engagement, accountability, and proactive 
risk identification. 
• Partner with site leadership to strengthen safety culture and integrate safety into daily operational decision
making. 
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and company safety and environmental requirements. 
• Lead and support safety initiatives including hazard assessments, incident investigations, corrective actions, 
contractor safety, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance activities. 
• Ensure safety programs, procedures, training, and documentation are effectively maintained. 
• Promote an environment where employees are encouraged to identify hazards, report concerns, and 
participate in risk reduction. 
 
Maintenance and Asset Reliability 
• Provide leadership for maintenance and reliability activities supporting the Le Sueur manufacturing site. 
• Ensure manufacturing equipment, utilities, and facility systems are maintained in a safe, reliable, and 
compliant condition. 
• Establish maintenance strategies that improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and support 
production objectives. 
• Lead preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs. 
• Establish reliability improvement processes including asset criticality assessments, root-cause analysis, failure 
investigations, and lifecycle planning. 
• Monitor maintenance performance through appropriate metrics, including preventive maintenance 
effectiveness, downtime, backlog, repeat failures, and reliability performance. 
• Ensure maintenance activities are appropriately planned, prioritized, documented, and completed. 
• Lead major maintenance activities, shutdowns, equipment repairs, and reliability improvement projects.

Promote an environment where employees are encouraged to identify hazards, report concerns, and 
participate in risk reduction. 

Facilities, Utilities and Infrastructure 
• Provide leadership for facility systems and utilities supporting manufacturing operations. 
• Ensure critical systems, including HVAC, electrical systems, compressed air, water systems, fire protection, and 
other utilities, are maintained and operated appropriately. 
• Identify infrastructure risks and develop strategies for repair, replacement, and capital investment. 
• Support equipment installation, facility improvements, expansions, and infrastructure projects. 
• Ensure new and modified equipment is properly evaluated, installed, documented, and incorporated into 
maintenance programs. 

Quality Systems and Regulatory Compliance 
• Ensure maintenance and facility activities comply with cGMP requirements, approved procedures, and 
applicable regulatory expectations. 
• Maintain strong documentation practices supporting equipment history, maintenance records, and compliance 
requirements. 
• Partner with Quality Assurance to assess and manage the impact of equipment failures, utility interruptions, 
and maintenance activities. 
• Support validation activities, change controls, deviations, CAPAs, audits, and regulatory inspections. 
• Ensure maintenance-related corrective actions are effectively implemented and sustained. 

Leadership, Collaboration and Continuous Improvement 
• Lead, coach, and develop maintenance, facilities, and safety personnel. 
• Establish goals and priorities aligned with site safety, quality, reliability, service, and cost objectives. 
• Build technical capability through training, qualification, cross-training, and succession planning. 
• Partner with Production and other site functions to balance operational needs with safety, quality, compliance, 
and reliability requirements. 
• Lead structured problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce risk, improve reliability, 
and enhance operational performance. 
• Participate as an active member of the Le Sueur site leadership team. 
• Communicate operational risks, resource needs, and improvement opportunities effectively to leadership. 

Budget, Contractors and Capital Projects 
• Develop and manage maintenance, safety, and infrastructure-related budgets. 
• Identify opportunities to improve cost performance while maintaining safety, quality, compliance, and 
reliability. 
• Develop and support capital proposals related to equipment replacement, facility improvements, reliability, 
and risk reduction. 
• Manage contractors, vendors, and service providers to ensure safety, quality, documentation, and 
performance expectations are met. 
• Ensure contractor activities are appropriately planned, supervised, and documented. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 
Provides leadership for maintenance, facilities, and safety personnel supporting the Le Sueur site including: 
• Workforce planning and scheduling 
• Recruiting and onboarding 
• Training and qualification 
• Performance management 
• Coaching and development 
• Work prioritization 
• Succession planning 

Please note that this job description is not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to undertake other relevant duties commensurate with the grading of the post. Activities may be subject to amendment over time as the role develops and/or priorities and requirements evolve.  

Competencies required for the Role:

ACCOUNTABILITY/EXECUTION – A willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.  Accountability is when an individual or a department experiences consequences for their performance or actions. 
COMPLEXITY/STRESS MANAGEMENT /TIME MANAGEMENT - The ability to keep functioning effectively when under pressure and maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation.  Cuts through complexity to focus on core issues; ability to manage time smartly; manages resources soundly. 
FOSTERING COLLABORATION/TEAMWORK - Is the ability to work jointly with others or together especially in an 
intellectual endeavor; the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, the ability 
to demonstrate interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together. Builds partnerships for global 
performance.  Respects others. 
PROBLEM-SOLVING – Is the ability to find solutions to complex problems quickly; know how to identify problems and strengths; good analytical skills. 
INTEGRITY/PERSONAL CREDIBILITY – Demonstrated ability and concern that one be perceived as responsible, reliable, and trustworthy. 

Other Requirements:

Essential 
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial technology, occupational safety, facilities management, or a 
related technical field; equivalent relevant education and experience may be considered. 
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in maintenance, engineering, facilities, equipment reliability, 
manufacturing operations, safety, or related disciplines. 
• Experience leading technical teams, maintenance organizations, safety programs, or comparable 
manufacturing functions. 
• Experience working in regulated manufacturing environments. 
• Demonstrated experience with: 
o Maintenance and reliability programs 
o Root-cause analysis and problem solving 
o Contractor management 
o Facility systems 
o Safety management systems 
o Continuous improvement initiatives 
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills. 

Desirable 
• Experience in pharmaceutical, animal-health, medical-device, food, chemical, or other FDA-regulated 
manufacturing. 
• Experience with cGMP requirements, Good Documentation Practices, ALCOA+ principles, change control, 
deviations, CAPA, equipment qualification, regulatory inspections 
• Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Maintenance & Reliability 
Professional (CMRP), Associate Safety Professional (ASP) 
• Experience managing capital projects and infrastructure improvements. 

Key Performance Indicators 
Success in this role may be measured through: 
• Employee and contractor safety performance 
• Completion of safety inspections, training, and corrective actions 
• Recordable injuries, near-miss reporting, and recurrence prevention 
• Preventive maintenance completion and schedule compliance 
• Unplanned equipment downtime 
• Repeat equipment failures 
• Emergency versus planned maintenance work 
• Maintenance backlog and aging 
• Equipment and utility reliability 
• Timely completion of deviations, CAPAs, audit actions, and change controls 
• Maintenance documentation accuracy and timeliness 
• Critical spare-parts availability 
• Maintenance and safety budget performance 
• Capital-project execution 
• Employee training, qualification, engagement, and development 

Physical Requirements 
• Ability to work effectively in manufacturing, warehouse, mechanical, utility, laboratory-support, and office 
environments. 
• Ability to walk and stand for extended periods while regularly engaging with employees and operations 
throughout the facility. 
• Ability to climb stairs, ladders, and access equipment and utility areas as required. 
• Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, reach, and work around manufacturing equipment and facility systems. 
• Ability to occasionally lift, carry, or move materials or equipment weighing up to 50 pounds, with appropriate 
assistance when required. 
• Ability to wear required personal protective equipment and comply with site safety requirements. 
• Ability to work around noise, chemicals, powders, moving machinery, electrical equipment, and varying 
temperatures while following established safety controls. 
• Ability to respond to urgent equipment, facility, safety, or operational events outside normal working hours 
when necessary. 

Work Environment and Schedule 
This position is primarily based at the Bimeda manufacturing facility in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The role requires regular 
presence on the manufacturing floor, in maintenance and utility areas, and throughout the facility. 
The position generally works during normal business hours but must be flexible to support multi-shift operations, 
planned shutdowns, emergency repairs, regulatory inspections, and significant safety or facility events. Occasional 
evening, weekend, holiday, or on-call support may be required. 
Limited travel may be required for training, vendor visits, equipment acceptance, or meetings at other Bimeda 
locations. 

What We Offer

Compensation & Benefits

• Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  
• 401(k) plan for retirement savings
  
• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays)
  
• Life insurance
  
• Employee assistance program

About Bimeda

Bimeda is a leading global innovator, manufacturer and marketer of veterinary pharmaceuticals and animal health products and has over half a century’s experience in providing science-driven solutions to optimize the health, wellbeing and productivity of the world’s animals. 
 
Bimeda’s global innovation program sees six state-of-the art R&D centers across four continents collaborate on an enviable product development pipeline which anticipates the ever-evolving needs of the animal health industry. 
 
Bimeda’s nine manufacturing facilities across seven countries allow the company to manufacture a broad range of preventative, curative and nutritional products including sterile injectables, vaccinations, nutritional boluses, feed additives, tablets, water-soluble powders, pastes and non-sterile liquids.  
 
Globally, the company focuses on the development, manufacture and commercialization of quality Bimeda-branded products while also being the partner of choice for contract manufacturing and R&D services for prominent companies within the animal health industry. 
 
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