Facilities Engineer

• Work Location: Carlow, Ireland

• Work model: On-site (with some flexibility on WFH occasionally)

• Contract type: 11 months temporary fixed term contract

• Client: a global healthcare leader dedicated to improving health and well-being worldwide. The company focuses on innovative medicines, vaccines, and animal health products

• Collaboration with other departments and our out-sourced partners to ensure the successful delivery of the Facility and Utility Support function in the safest, most time efficient and cost-effective manner.

• Maintain Facility and Utility Support services in the context of retaining a permanent inspection readiness state for the site.

• Support continuous improvement by active participation in projects, system failure studies and incident investigations using recognised methodologies such as 8SPS, RCA etc.

• Support the development and execution of Change Control related to the Engineering function.

• Participate in and contribute to Lean measures such as Gemba and Kaizen events.

• Comply with Global Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, regulatory requirements and execute current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in the performance of day-to-day activities and all applicable job functions, ensuring consideration of the impact on GMP and compliance and decisions made.

• Accountable for compliance via documentation completion, risk assessments, closing out corrective actions, participate in audits and inspections and proactively highlighting any issues around compliance.

• Escalate issues in a timely manner to relevant onsite stakeholders and support the resolution of any such issues.

• Development of new and review and update of existing SOPs.

• Support site Reliability and Calibration improvement programs.

• Collaborate closely with cross functional teams to ensure project activity is supported through inspection and safety walks.

• Work collaboratively to drive a safe and compliant culture in Carlow.

• Collaborate with multiple partners (e.g., IPT, Supply Chain, Warehouse, Quality, Labs, Third Parties, Vendors etc).

• Drafting presentations and reporting out on progress on initiatives to stakeholders as required.

• Managing vendors for work on site ensuring compliance with safety and permitting requirements for all on site activities.

• Responding to safety events, collecting information and coordinating investigations and remediation actions.

• Responding to building fabric issues, collecting information to support investigations and coordinating closure of remediation actions.

• Supervision of temporary building utilisation and responding to issues as they arise.

• Overseeing building utilisation and conducting periodic occupancy checks.

• May be required to perform other duties as assigned.

• Considerable experience in a comparable role typically gained operating as an independent contributor adding considerable value to the business.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver on objectives with limited oversight.

• Experience within Facilities and Utilities support areas in a GMP manufacturing environment and have a proven track record in identifying and delivering improvement projects.

• Knowledge of regulatory/code requirements to Irish, European and International Codes, Standards and Practices.

• Excellent report, standards, policy writing skills required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and job-related computer applications required.

• Strong safety ethos.

• Proven record of management of change in a commercial site

Darwin Rhodes