Director Engineering (Biotechnology)

Location: Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States; onsite role

Company

hirify.global is a biotechnology company developing, manufacturing, and delivering medicines to patients worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead the Engineering, Automation, Maintenance, and Instrumentation functions supporting drug-substance manufacturing operations.
• Set and execute the long-term technical and organizational strategy for a complex GMP manufacturing site.
• Manage asset reliability programs covering preventive and predictive maintenance, calibration, spare parts, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain engineering compliance and inspection readiness across cGMP, EHS, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Digital/Automation, and Capital Project Delivery on assets, technical risks, and operational readiness.
• Build the technical organization, manage contractors and service providers, oversee budgets, and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of engineering experience, or master’s degree and 8 years, or bachelor’s degree and 10 years.
• At least 4 years of direct people management or leadership experience.
• Progressive experience in engineering, maintenance, automation, instrumentation, utilities, reliability, or asset management in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or similarly regulated manufacturing.
• Experience leading multifunctional technical teams, contractors, and service providers in GMP manufacturing operations.
• Experience with maintenance, calibration, reliability, asset lifecycle, and spare-parts programs in a CMMS environment such as Maximo.
• Strong experience with regulatory inspections, quality events, root-cause investigations, CAPA, capital projects, and operating and capital budgets.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, and flexible spending benefits.
• Retirement and savings plan with company contributions.
• Discretionary annual bonus and stock-based long-term incentives.
• Paid time off plans and biannual company-wide shutdowns.
• Flexible work models, including remote arrangements where applicable.
• Career development and work-life balance support.