Associate Manager, Utilities (Maintenance)
Join a fast-growing team at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies. We’re seeking an Associate Manager to lead Utilities maintenance across black utilities, clean utilities, and HVAC. You’ll be part of a team of four managers with overlapping responsibilities, collaborating closely to ensure safe, reliable, and GMP-compliant operations.
About the Role
You will oversee day-to-day utilities maintenance, lead a skilled technician team and contractors, and partner with MFG operations, Engineering, and QA. You’ll manage procedures and budgets, respond to issues with urgency, and support commissioning/start-up to ensure maintenance readiness from day one. You will be part of a management team of four, overlapping and substituting for each other to ensure continuous coverage and support.
What You’ll Do
Lead planning and execution of preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance via CMMS; ensure safety, GMP, and ALCOA documentation.
Manage and develop technicians and contractors; coordinate with Operations and fellow managers to align priorities and coverage.
Drive reliability and continuous improvement: troubleshoot critical issues, run root-cause analyses, and implement CAPAs.
Approve utilities procedures and own business processes aligned with Danish legislation and site standards.
Manage the utilities budget (~DKK 10–15M), spares strategy, and procurement; optimize resources and costs.
Support commissioning and start-up of new/expanded systems to secure maintenance readiness.
Key systems include black utilities (steam, chilled water, compressed air, power), clean utilities (WFI, clean/pure steam, process gases), and HVAC systems (BMS, SCADA/PLC interfaces).
What You Bring
5+ years maintaining utility and process equipment in a GMP manufacturing environment.
Proven leadership of technicians and contractors; strong safety and compliance mindset.
Experience with CMMS, BMS, and other control systems.
Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Collaborative and systematic approach with a continuous improvement focus.
Proficiency in English; Danish is required.
The Team
You’ll join the Technical Operations and Maintenance (TOM) department—140+ professionals maintaining and optimizing site-wide systems. Within TOM, the Utilities team is 50 colleagues deliver 24/7 technical support and drive world-class equipment performance through data and continuous improvement. Within Utilities, you’ll work as one of four managers with overlapping responsibilities, coordinating coverage, sharing best practices, and ensuring reliable, compliant operations around the clock.
Working at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
We offer a competitive compensation package in a site/company growing rapidly, with many opportunities for individual growth. We also offer access to fitness and an attractive canteen.
FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is an industry-leading Biologics Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with locations in Hillerød, Denmark, Teesside, UK, RTP, North Carolina and College Station, Texas, USA. We use our skills, dedication, and ambition to enable impact for the world’s most innovative biotech and biopharma companies reimagining healthcare’s potential. We work across the entire lifecycle of our customers’ products – enabling success throughout. Every cure, vaccine, biologic, and advancement we contribute to starts with our people and our passion. We fuel one another’s passion, help accelerate progress, expand capabilities, strengthen innovation, and improve processes to improve lives.
Our Manufacturing site in Hillerød, Denmark, brings together a complete range of expertise, capabilities, and technologies to manufacture advanced biologics. As we continue to enhance and expand our capabilities, we are looking for people who share our passion, drive, and energy – what we call Genki – to join our team.
We offer the chance to be part of a global workplace where passion, drive, and commitment are met with opportunities for professional and personal development. Deeply committed to diversity and inclusion, we ensure that everyone, no matter their background or gender, has an opportunity to develop. We take pride in enriching our communities, caring for our environment, and cultivating a world of opportunity for future generations.
We aim to foster a collaborative, innovative, and rewarding environment, where diverse perspectives and people come together united by a common purpose and shared values. We pursue our fullest potential as individual contributors and team members. We strive to be the employer of choice and offer a competitive compensation and benefits package.
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FUJIFILM Biotechnologies Denmark (FDBD) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.
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