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Job Description
Abbott Ireland Diabetes Care Division Donegal
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines.
Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices, and nutritional products.
Job Description
Lead industrial engineering activities to improve efficiency, processes, and utilisation of equipment, materials, and personnel across the Abbott Diabetes Care division.
- Identify and implement improvements to strategic site operations and processes to support the delivery of site goals.
- Lead industrial engineering activities relating to clean room and equipment expansion programs and achievement of planned capacity.
- Apply engineering methods to deliver models and presentations relating to facility, capacity, and expansion planning and recommendations to management.
- Measure and report on efficiency data.
- Maintain oversight of manufacturing data routinely collected to ensure necessary data is available to inform strategic decision making.
- Use influencing skills to ensure outcomes of analysis are implemented to good effect.
- Recommend and develop manufacturing methods and tools that support and promote improvements in the utilisation of people, equipment, processes materials, and utilities across all business processes.
- Establish, set and maintain process standards and the capacity book, measuring performance to plan.
- Deliver solutions to address unfavourable variances.
- Through knowledge and Lean Sigma tools identify and deliver improvements to reduce waste and improve process and system performance.
- Analyse capacity requirements to achieve output, propose labour and equipment resources to achieve business plans.
- Develop and lead continuous improvement projects, working cross-functionally to implement changes that deliver savings across the business.
- Work closely with Systems and Process Engineers to develop and improve dashboard visualisation to support manufacturing teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering / Science + 3 Years Relevant Experience.
- In-depth knowledge and application of industrial engineering techniques, measurement of OEE, and knowledge of Lean Sigma tools.
About Working at Abbott
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- An attractive benefits package.
- A company recognised as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognised as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
- A challenging position in a fast-growing crisis independent industry.
- To become part of a dynamic, highly educated, highly skilled, and motivated team.
- Flat hierarchies, open appreciative mentality, and efficient, constructive lines of communication.
- Multi-national environment, where we foster the development of our talents within the enterprise.