Utility Operations Coordinator

Position Overview

The Utility Operations Coordinator supports the day-to-day execution activities within the assigned function (e.g., Maintenance, Instrumentation & Controls, Utility Operations, etc.) by facilitating work order readiness, ensuring tool and material availability, managing technician workflow, and serving as a liaison between maintenance, production, quality, and other support teams to maintain optimal equipment performance with minimal downtime. This role provides input to maintenance protocols, participates in cross-functional initiatives that drive organizational efficiency, and ensures compliance with Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP), safety, and company procedures. Additionally, this role is aligned to specific shifts or provides rotational coverage, as needed to support maintenance activities across all shifts, ensuring continuity of operations in a 24/7 manufacturing environment.

Company Overview

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we'll open North America's largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.

We're looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we're proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive-what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let's transform healthcare together!

Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh's thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of "giving our world more smiles." Visit:

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Coordinates, prioritizes, and documents activities of technicians to support uninterrupted production while ensuring clear communication of completed work, delays or outstanding items, safety issues, and cross-departmental coordination for continuity across the site.
• Identifies recurring issues by building and participates in or leads root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensures the availability and procurement of materials, tools, spare parts, permits, and vendors for maintenance tasks and successful work order completion.
• Ensures maintenance work complies with CGMP, safety, and documentation standards to promote consistent and standardization of maintenance practices across the site.
• Participates in and provides data for audits and regulatory inspections, as needed • Participates in planned responses (PRs), change management records (CMRs), and engineering change management (ECM), as needed.
• Attends daily tier meetings, and tracks equipment availability, status updates, and permit needs across buildings.
• Supports equipment maintenance, calibration, qualification, and validation processes.
• Helps ensure safety procedures (e.g., Lockout Tagout and confined space entry) are followed.
• Supports supervisors with technician dispatch, task prioritization, and onboarding of new personnel (contractors and employees) to the team.
• Interfaces with production, quality, and other coordinators to synchronize work activities for continuity, workload balance, and equipment performance and reliability to ensure team achieves key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Revises and implements standard operating procedures (SOPs) and preventative maintenance plans to minimize equipment downtime, as needed.
• Participates in or leads cross-functional team initiatives and decision-making processes while building and maintaining positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assists management with developing comprehensive maintenance workflows, scheduling training for team members, and providing mentorship to technicians.
• Monitors projects and tasks to ensure adherence to codes, standards, timelines, and budget requirements while analyzing progress to coordinate timeline adjustments with stakeholders for optimal results.
• Provides recommendations to management to develop and refine budget and schedule requirements.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

Knowledge, Kills, or Abilities

• Knowledge of maintenance workflows and equipment fundamentals.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Willingness and ability to inspire and train others to drive team performance.
• Detail-oriented, dependable, and responsive in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, and maintenance systems view-only access.
• Knowledge of CGMP requirements, safety practices, including LOTO and safe work permitting.
• Familiar with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Ability to develop effective working relationships internally and externally.
• Problem-solving and Project Management skills.
• Ability to effectively present information to others.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED with 4-6 years of experience in project management, planning, or maintenance; OR,
• Associate degree in engineering or biotechnology field with 2+ years of experience in project management, planning, or maintenance.
• 4+ years of experience in a GMP pharmaceutical environment.
• Prior experience with CMMS and documentation practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or chemical engineering or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in a GMP environment, showcasing strong familiarity with industry standards and protocols essential for maintaining process integrity.
• Experience in project management or lean six sigma.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required on a regular basis to:

• May work in Mechanical/Production spaces that may require hearing protection and enrollment in a hearing conservation program.
• Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time up to 120 minutes.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time up to 120 minutes.
• Ability to conduct work that includes moving objects up to 10 pounds.
• Ability to bend, push or pull, reach to retrieve materials from 18" to 60" in height, and use twisting motions.
• Will work in outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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EEO Information

Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

ADA Information

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department ([email protected]).