Deputy General Manager-Global Engineering

Own and continuously refine the PPL Engineering & Maintenance excellence strategy, maturity model and phased transformation roadmap.

Benchmark PPL practices against leading global pharmaceutical companies and translate relevant practices into practical enterprise standards.

Partner with site leadership to develop short-, medium- and long-term reliability and asset lifecycle plans aligned with business continuity, compliance and investment priorities.

Act as the central technical escalation point for significant engineering reliability and maintenance risks.

Lead asset health, infrastructure, laboratory equipment and operational technology assessments, ensuring risks are prioritized by criticality and business impact.

Drive year-on-year refurbishment, replacement and obsolescence plans for critical process, utility, infrastructure, laboratory and automation assets.

Strengthen preventive, predictive, condition-based, reliability- centered and autonomous maintenance practices to move sites from reactive to risk-based maintenance.

Ensure robust failure analysis, root cause analysis, CAPA effectiveness, lessons learned and horizontal deployment across sites.

Drive adoption and sustained compliance of global foundational guidelines covering asset registers, criticality, planned and unplanned maintenance, spares, lifecycle management, contractor evaluation, competence and performance measurement.

Establish consistent governance for PM compliance, MTBF, MTTR, breakdowns, production-impacting failures, maintenance cost, backlog, calibration and other agreed KPIs.

Lead critical equipment and spare-parts strategies, including BOM quality, ABC/VED classification, lead-time risk, stocking norms and opportunities for regional or shared inventory.

Promote disciplined work management, maintenance planning and scheduling, vendor performance management and continuous improvement.

Provide functional leadership for CMMS deployment and integration, including standardized workflows, master data, work orders, asset history, maintenance backlog, dashboards and spares management.

Advance predictive maintenance through IoT sensors, condition monitoring, analytics and scalable use cases.

Partner with Digital, IT, Automation, EHS, Quality and site teams on OT assessments, legacy system upgrades, cybersecurity readiness, EMS, MES and Industry 4.0 priorities.

Ensure technology choices improve reliability, data integrity, regulatory readiness and user adoption.

Operate a strong three-tier governance cadence covering site, regional and global reviews, with clear accountability and timely escalation.

Maintain enterprise dashboards and provide concise, data-based updates to senior leadership on progress, risks, benefits and required decisions.

Support risk-based capital prioritization and business cases for reliability, obsolescence, compliance and operational resilience investments.

Confirm that benefits are sustained through audits, maturity reviews, action tracking and site ownership.

Lead and develop the central Engineering and Maintenance team, clarifying roles, priorities and performance expectations.

Influence site Engineering Heads and cross-functional leaders , building commitment to common standards and outcomes.

Drive technical competency frameworks, iLead or equivalent capability programs, critical-role mapping, succession planning and knowledge-transfer mechanisms.

Create and mobilize global SME pools and communities of practice to solve recurring issues and share best practices.

Build a “we maintain” culture through partnership between Engineering, Operations and Quality.

SVP & Global Head - Engineering & Projects; Site Heads; Site Engineering & Maintenance Heads; Operations; Quality; EHS; Supply Chain; Finance; HR; Digital/IT; Automation; Capital Projects; Procurement and global SMEs.

Engineering and maintenance consultants; OEMs; technology and CMMS providers; specialist service partners; auditors and relevant industry networks.