Reliability Engineer

Summary:
Our client is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cork looking for a Reliability Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring that all maintenance and reliability systems are implemented and operated in an efficient manner with a focus on continuous development. The Reliability Engineer will support projects to ensure that equipment is designed/built/installed and maintained on site in a safe, compliant and efficient manner utilizing the current best in class maintenance/reliability strategies and methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Implement the strategy for ensuring all plant equipment is built and exists in the correct equipment status on CMMS, and that all equipment is assigned a relevant maintenance activity program according to equipment criticality ranking.
• Completion of equipment FMEA exercises to develop, streamline and improve maintenance and reliability programs.
• Liaise with colleagues on other sites to leverage and share best practice.
• Consistent use of lean and six sigma tools such as root cause analysis, DMAIC, 5S, right first time and Standard work. Champion and support all team projects in these areas.
• Input into the development of the facility and maintenance site budget.
• Ensure all aspects of maintenance adherence to the facilities/maintenance budget throughout a financial year.
• Co-ordinate and complete Quality records/actions to track progress and ensure compliance to cGMP’s, environmental and statuary regulations.
• Develop a culture for optimizing Reliability and Maintenance systems for the business.
• Manage the change process of maintenance program changes for all equipment to ensure that all changes are captured, documented, risk assessed and meet the applicable cGMP or statutory safety standards.
• Develop a process to enable continuous improvement in all aspects of facility and maintenance related activities.
• Generate, report and analyze key reliability metrics.
• Ensure that all cGMP safety training is completed prior to engaging in any activities.
• Oversight of site maintenance service contracts, implementing KPI’s to ensure services completed and compliant and cost effective.
• Projects: Provide support to the project team.
• Co-ordination of upload of new equipment to CMMS in accordance with existing site conventions and hierarchies.
• Identification of critical spares for new equipment and set up of spare parts management system.
• Input and participate into project design and construction.
• Engineering and maintenance input into design and FAT of new equipment.
• Ensure that maintenance &calibration is carried out in accordance to cGMP regulations, safety considerations and site quality standards.
• Ensure that CMMS system is maintained current for all running assets on site.

Qualifications & Experience:

• A relevant third level qualification in Science, Engineering or related discipline is preferred.
• Strong demonstrated ability in the area of communication and strong ability to interact with cross-functional teams.
• Creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to make decisions and take necessary actions.
• Strong organizational skills, as well as the ability to manage multiple priorities.