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As the Site Engineering Manager, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring equipment reliability, operational excellence, and manufacturing readiness across a highly regulated GMP environment. This is an exciting opportunity to build and develop a high-performing technical team, drive innovative engineering solutions, lead key capital and equipment improvement initiatives, and partner across Operations, Quality, Automation, Supply Chain, and other site functions to support safe, compliant, and reliable manufacturing operations.\nJob Description\nKey Responsibilities\nProvide strategic and day-to-day leadership for the Process Engineering and Maintenance departments supporting manufacturing process equipment, including applicable QC-adjacent equipment.\nCoach and develop engineers, maintenance professionals, reliability resources, and external service providers while remaining directly engaged in equipment troubleshooting, investigations, execution, and recovery when needed.\nEnsure equipment remains safe, compliant, qualified, reliable, and fit for intended use while owning site maintenance and asset-management programs, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.\nDrive equipment reliability strategies to improve performance and reduce unplanned downtime. Lead process and equipment engineering initiatives that improve process capability, equipment performance, throughput, yield, safety, product quality, and manufacturability\nProvide governance and oversight for commissioning, qualification, and validation activities, including lifecycle documentation, risk-based qualification, periodic review, requalification, and maintenance of the validated state.\nLead engineering investigations, deviations, change controls, corrective and preventive actions, and technical risk assessments, ensuring timely closure and sustainable corrective actions.\nMaintain continuous inspection readiness for Engineering and Maintenance; serve as the site engineering subject matter expert during internal audits, health authority inspections, and regulatory commitments.\nManage departmental operating and capital budgets, contractor performance, technical service agreements, and procurement activities to deliver compliant, cost-effective engineering support.\nEssential Requirements\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Automation, or a related technical field.\nMinimum 5 years of engineering, maintenance, reliability, process, or equipment experience within the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other regulated manufacturing industry.\nExperience hiring, leading, and developing technical resources in a cGMP environment, including a minimum of 3 years of people leadership experience managing and developing technical teams.\nIn-depth knowledge of FDA regulations, Title 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP5, and GMP systems.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate equipment status, risks, priorities, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders.\nAbility to travel up to 10% as required.\nThe salary for this position is expected to range between $114,100 and $211,900 per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors. Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.\nTo learn more about the culture, rewards and benefits we offer our people click here.\nEEO Statement:\nThe Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.\nAccessibility and reasonable accommodations\nThe Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to  call +1(877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.\nSalary Range\n$114,100.00 - $211,900.00Skills Desired\nBusiness Continuity, Cost Management, Decision Making, Operational Excellence, Problem Solving, Project Management, Quality Compliance, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management","description_format":"text","description_chars":5453,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Nuclear Energy","Oncology Therapeutics","Neurology & CNS Therapeutics","Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T06:28:18Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 8 · green card filings: 2","filings_12m":8,"filings_prev_12m":18,"green_card_filings_12m":2,"median_offered_wage_usd":146500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":32,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.582,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":27,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":211900,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/novartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/novartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-03T19:26:23Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1678,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5824},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5824"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnovartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnovartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnovartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/novartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnovartis-site-engineering-manager-manufacturing-isotopes"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1945426}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"novartis.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1945426},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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