Maintenance Planning Engineer

Role Purpose:

• A vacancy has arisen for the role of a Maintenance Planning Engineer at our client’s busy pharmaceutical site in Co. Kildare
• This role demands flexibility and cross-functional liaison and co-operation.

Core Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure strict adherence to site policies/procedures, cGMP and environmental, health and safety regulations.
• Facilitate Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program.
• Execute responsibilities in line with Right First-Time principles.
• Ensure that all planned maintenance is completed within the allotted time, however if this is not possible, ensure that the necessary deviation paperwork is submitted justifying any extension.
• Drive complex defect elimination.
• Work with the production scheduler to implement routine and non-routine plant maintenance program, measure adherence to schedule & implement corrective measures where required.
• Root Cause analysis for elimination of repeat performance issues /occurrences.
• Participate in decision making in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
• Working with the Plant Engineer on the continuous development & improvement of the site preventative maintenance program to meet the changing needs of the site.
• Participate in and drive Safety initiatives onsite.
• Support Quality investigations as required.
• Working with the Equipment Engineering team and Reliability Engineer to integrate new processes & equipment into the existing maintenance system complete with equipment definitions, task lists, maintenance plans, spares & equipment BOM’s.
• Work closely with the Shift Engineer and maintenance team to resolve equipment breakdowns, assisting them in the sourcing of spares, drawings etc needed to resolve issues.
• Analyse information from the CMMS system to interrogate the data for better understanding of how technician resources are being deployed and where improvements might be made.

Education & Qualifications Required:

• Educated to degree level in an engineering discipline with relevant pharmaceutical experience or suitable equivalence due to length of service and level of experience when working within the Pharmaceuticals / Food industry.
• Proficient in technical problem solving.
• Experience in solid dose / packaging desirable.
• Direct maintenance planning experience in pharmaceutical environment
• Strong Ownership and accountability.
• Highly collaborative working and good interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of CMMS systems.

Please note, we do not require agency assistance with this role.