Job description

Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager will have overall responsibility for the

Pharmaceutical plant maintenance as follows:

• Site Maintenance and Equipment Reliability (Process, Packaging & Utilities)
• Maintenance Team Performance
• Site Maintenance Systems & Strategy
• Plant Calibration

Essential Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

• Fulfil the role of Maintenance Manager for Maintenance, Facilities and Utilities resources.
• Ensure the various maintenance and operations related tasks are effectively performed.
• Ensure that objectives are effectively achieved, consistent with requirements to

ensure compliance, safety, and reliable supply to our customers.

• Coordinate and execute Maintenance activities, preventative maintenance, calibration

equipment improvement projects, to ensure optimum equipment uptime and target outputs.

• Equipment will include everything within Engineering responsibility, including but not

limited to, parts washers, autoclaves and filling machines.

• Ensure that all Planned Maintenance and Calibration are completed to the schedule.
• Collaborate with Quality, EHS, Technical Operations, in completion of tasks to ensure best

practice outputs

• Coordinate scheduled, tasks and resources, including vendor management, communications,

training, project work, audit/inspection duties etc.

• Coordinate clean room, mechanical spaces and materials management in all areas while

focusing on continuous process improvement using Lean Principles.

• Manage equipment flow, through maintenance cycles.
• Review and post execution approval of preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance

and calibration SAP work orders. Approval of change controls, CAPA's etc

• Ensure process equipment is maintained including preventative maintenance, equipment

troubleshooting and repairs to ensure continuous, reliable, and repeatable operation of

equipment. Effectively manage and schedule equipment shutdowns, ensuring resources are

available, thereby minimizing downtown.

• Ensure effective participation in writing/revising/ rolling out accurate, SAP task lists, technical engineering reports, training documents and maintenance procedures for various IPT systems; ensure all work is carried out in line with same.
• Ensure equipment reliability and performance by ensuring root cause analysis is performed

and subsequent recommendations and improvement changes throughout processes are

• implemented including the calibration of equipment as necessary.
• Troubleshoot equipment problems, identify need for new equipment and/or modifications to existing equipment to optimize throughput and reduce process cycle times; Drive change

through Change control system in line with deadlines.

• Leadership activities including selection, development, coaching and day to day

management. Ensure that the team receives appropriate resources and programmes to

develop technical and other skills, to complete their jobs whilst stimulating personal growth

and development in line with role. Develop and maintain training programmes.

• Participate in on-call rota and callouts when required.

Skills/Knowledge Required:

• Understands maintenance system design to ensure excellent asset performance.
• Familiar with pharmaceutical utility equipment such as WFI generation & distribution, clean steam generation & distribution, cleanroom HVAC, steam boilers, air compressors, etc.
• Strong technical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office and other computer applications i.e. CMMS.
• Strong people management skills and is a team player with good proactive approach & manner.
• Knowledgeable of the regulatory and GMP requirements for maintenance activities.
• Equipment reliability programmes including RCM, TPM or maintenance excellence processes.

Education Required:

• Qualified to degree level in engineering.
• Min of 5 years of experience in manufacturing maintenance.
• Experience implementing Lean Principals across maintenance department.
• Strong communication and team lead experience.
• Experience Required:
• Utilities systems operation and maintenance – black utilities, clean utilities, HVAC, electrical,
• etc.
• Proven experience of leading a team in a GMP fast paced environment
• Technical understanding of clean utilities – PUW, Clean Steam & WFI, Process equipment
• maintenance – parts washer, autoclave, compounding & sterile filling machine/isolator
• Packaging equipment maintenance
• Understanding of OEE
• Reliability centered maintenance
• Building management systems, Environmental Monitoring systems and CMMS
• Technical problem-solving leadership - structured analysis & reporting
• Calibration and calibration systems management of Site building services & maintenance
• Strong Health and Safety awareness & leadership
• Experience of best practice maintenance, life cycle management and asset care.
• Regulatory compliance & inspections (HPRA, FDA, etc.)
• Budget management
• Technical understanding of clean utilities – PUW, Clean Steam & WFI, Process equipment maintenance – parts washer, autoclave, compounding & sterile filling machine/isolator
• Packaging equipment maintenance
• Understanding of OEE
• Reliability centered maintenance
• Building management systems, Environmental Monitoring systems and CMMS
• Technical problem-solving leadership - structured analysis & reporting
• Calibration and calibration systems management of Site building services & maintenance
• Strong Health and Safety awareness & leadership
• Experience of best practice maintenance, life cycle management and asset care.
• Regulatory compliance & inspections (HPRA, FDA, etc.)
• Budget management

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: €65,000.00-€75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Athlone, County Westmeath: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

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