Associate Director Asset Engineering in Slough

Location: Slough, UK (with regular travel to Cambridge). Hybrid working available for eligible activities.

The actual location of this job is in Slough, UK, with travel to Cambridge. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates and their families, if required.

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Based across our Slough and Cambridge sites, this role plays a key part in leading the engineering function responsible for maintaining our facilities, utilities and equipment, ensuring operational reliability and continuous improvement.

What you will get:

• An agile career and dynamic working culture
• An inclusive and ethical workplace
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance
• A variety of benefits depending on role and location

Provide strategic and operational leadership to the Asset Engineering teams across Slough and Cambridge, including both internal engineering teams and external FM Hard Services partners.

Oversee maintenance planning, scheduling, spare parts management, training, and maintenance execution to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant site operations.

Manage an operational budget in excess of £10M, ensuring financial transparency, accurate forecasting, and delivery of cost improvement initiatives.

Drive innovation and continuous improvement to enhance safety, quality, and operational performance while minimizing business interruption.

Develop and mentor team members to create expertise at all levels, promote open communication and empower decision-making.

Collaborate with service providers, contractors, procurement, and internal customers to ensure service excellence and regulatory compliance.

Lead with integrity, accountability, and a commitment to fostering a high-performing engineering culture.

What we are looking for:

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience leading large, skill-diverse engineering or maintenance teams within a GMP-regulated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, influence, and inspire teams to achieve service excellence and breakthrough performance.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance operational priorities with long-term strategic needs.
• Experience managing significant operational budgets and driving cost and efficiency improvements.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organization and external partners.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on building capability and delivering sustainable operational improvements.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.