Job Description
Seeking a Process Engineer to provide daily support to Operations team and wider business group, leveraging expertise in Warehouse Management Systems and automated picking systems.
Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland.
With a workforce of close to 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Nordics and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers.
Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging strong relationships with 200+ of the world's best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers.
Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain & Retail, Commercial & Clinical (Med Tech / Pharma), and Product Access.
We pride ourselves in being truly entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, with a strong problem-solving ethos.
We believe that this is because we know how to build a relationship of trust with our partners - we put our customers and their patients at the heart of what we do and treat them with integrity and respect.
Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people.
As we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse.
This rich diversity fuels our business and enriches our culture.
Job Description
- Play a mentoring role in a dynamic Engineering team delivering daily support to the Operations team and wider business group.
- Work with multiple Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), running 7 FMCG sites.
- Work with the vendor helpdesk function, ticket management and reporting, to deliver best in class service to the business.
- Identify opportunities to improve the processes and systems that drive the day to day operation in the primary distribution facility, Citywest, and regional depots.
- Provide continuous improvement and process optimization throughout the warehouse, including but not limited to, the application and all its associated processes, workflows and functionalities.
- Work on high profile Capex and continuous improvement projects as part of multi-discipline teams.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop an expertise in fundamental processes within the integrated warehouse management system and automated picking systems.
- Develop an expertise on how this system is integrated with a state of the art ERP system (SAP), as well as the ASRS and Miniload systems.
- Support the operations daily sustaining activities, ensure that the WMS performs to, and exceeds established targets.
- Support the business in all testing activities on the test WMS.
- Work as part of a dynamic and multi-discipline team to deliver a robust testing solution.
- Understand, analyse and eliminate reoccurring faults or bugs on the WMS.
- Liaise with facilities team on reoccurring mechanical or electrical issues on the automated crane and conveyor system.
- System auditing and maintenance.
- Identify potential improvements to the WMS and associated processes.
- Business and operational analysis (Capacity, efficiency, performance, etc).
Qualification, Experience & Skills Required
- Minimum Honors Degree in an Engineering discipline.
- 4-5 years prior Process engineering experience preferably in a mentoring role.
- Experience in the Pharma/FMCG sectors an advantage.
- Lean six sigma qualification an advantage.
Competencies
- Attention to detail.
- Results orientated – must be able to bring projects to completion.
- Strong numerical & analytical skills.
- Ability to learn new systems quickly.
- Ability to see problems as a challenge.
- Enthusiasm and willingness to get involved in all areas of Engineering, Facilities & operations.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel & Power Point.
- Candidate must be team orientated with the ability to work in cross-functional teams to accomplish goals set by the business.