Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Summary:
Our client, a biopharmaceutical company based in East Cork, is looking for a Maintenance and Reliability Manager who will be responsible for the company’s maintenance program to ensure equipment reliability meets production operation demands.

Responsibilities:

• Implement maintenance strategy aligned with the company’s goals and objectives.
• This includes establishing and maintaining a comprehensive maintenance program to ensure the reliability and availability of all equipment and facilities.
• Provide strong leadership to the maintenance teams, while fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion as a part of the overall department strategy.
• This includes providing staff with coaching, training, and opportunities to develop skills, give ongoing constructive and timely feedback on performance.
• Manage maintenance infrastructure, monitor all systems status, and analyse to identify trends.
• Develop and manage preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance programs to ensure cost effective and reliable operation of all equipment and systems.
• This includes implementing predictive and preventive maintenance practices to minimise downtime and optimise equipment performance.
• Monitor KPIs for equipment breakdowns, calibrations, and PM, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with regulatory requirements, including FDA and GMP standards and maintain accurate documentation/records to support regulatory audits and inspections.
• Manage the maintenance budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation and identify cost-saving opportunities to implement cost-effective solutions.
• Promote a culture of safety responsibility within the engineering and maintenance teams.
• Engage in Cross Functional Team activities to address and mitigate any root cause problems with preventative maintenance and machine performance.
• Develop Preventative Maintenance methods to minimise mean time between failure and maximise OEE.
• Collaborates across PDM Manufacturing sites to implement shared and harmonised processes.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree qualified.
• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in Maintenance management.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical manufacturing and/or Biotechnology operations/GMP environment.
• Strong Technical Knowledge of Equipment reliability engineering.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to act on own initiative.
• Experience in the delivery and management of maintenance management systems E.g. Maximo, EAMS.