Job Description
Perform day-to-day preventative and demand maintenance activities to maintain manufacturing and plant equipment, ensuring product quality and production schedule goals are met.
About Abbott
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 113,000 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 nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten sites, with six manufacturing facilities located in various locations and commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway.
Abbott Ireland Diagnostic Division
Abbott Diagnostics is a global leader of in vitro diagnostics with approximately 70,000 institutional customers in more than 100 countries. Our diagnostic products offer a broad range of innovative instrument systems and tests for hospitals, reference labs, blood banks, physician offices and clinics.
Purpose of the Job
- Perform day-to-day preventative and demand maintenance activity to maintain manufacturing and plant equipment.
- Maintain records and documentation on relevant Engineering Procedures, to perform equipment validation and preventative/demand maintenance.
- Liaise with Internal/External Engineering Personnel and contract maintenance providers in maintaining troubleshooting and installing/commissioning equipment.
- Coordinate and implement equipment projects.
Major Responsibilities
- Perform day-to-day demand and preventative maintenance and problem-solving of plant and manufacturing equipment to achieve product quality and production schedule goals.
- Complete and record functional and safety checks on plant and manufacturing equipment and correct any deviations from specification.
- Assist in installation and validation of new and upgraded processes.
- Assist in implementation of equipment/process upgrade in an environment of continuous improvement.
- Liaise with and assist contracted maintenance, such as service/commissioning engineers, factory inspectors, building contracts, site maintenance, etc.
- Establish department goals with Area Team Leader/Manager.
- Ensure Safety Standards are met and safe working practices are adhered to.
- Foster and lead continuous improvement to the culture of safety.
- Recommend/implement improvements to safety standards.
- Liaise directly with other departments in accident/incident investigations and address any issues arising from these investigations.
- Ensure Environmental procedures, such as recycling, waste minimization, are adhered to and improvements made where possible.
- Assist in preparation of Capital Expenditure Requests for Plant and manufacturing equipment.
- Support the Engineering Team in ensuring that facilities, utilities and equipment are maintained to meet the required legal, divisional and corporate standards.
- Liaise with Division Engineering as required.
- In conjunction with the Quality calibration coordinator, ensure compliance with calibration requirements for both Plant and Manufacturing.
- Ensure the maintenance of the facility and manufacturing equipment.
- Ensure the maintenance of utility services and manufacturing plant.
- Ensure the maintenance of pest control, housekeeping and GMP.
- Ensure PM system is implemented on facility and manufacturing equipment.
- Identify and implement CIPs.
- Ensure External contractors are managed and supervised.
- Ensure the effective management of appropriate internal and external plant projects.
- Perform any other relevant duties as requested by the Area Team Leader/Manager.
Education & Competencies
- Ideal candidate has a minimum of two years relevant experience in a hands-on engineering role.
- Two years experience of the maintenance of utility and/or process equipment in the healthcare or food processing industry.
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to organize and work within a team.