Job Title: Utility Engineer / Lead
CareerWise Recruitment is seeking a skilled Utility Engineer / Lead for our Life Science client in Limerick. This contract role involves delivering a right first time facility start up and continued support of ongoing manufacturing operations.
Responsibilities:
* Ensure a safe working environment and help improve the safety culture.
* Provide utility system engineering expertise as an active member of the area team.
* Maintain clean system unit operations in a qualified and reliable state.
* Establish and monitor critical parameters for all clean systems to ensure control.
* Lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve equipment and operational issues.
* Evaluate activities for impact on qualified state of equipment and utilize necessary tools.
* Provide engineering support to the Global Facility Delivery team with a focus on right first time and on schedule facility start-up.
* Define and own relevant aspects of the integrated Operational Readiness Plan.
* Own the Performance Qualification strategy and execution for the area of responsibility.
* Support initial Operations Training requirements as the Equipment and Area SME.
* Be the point of contact and technical expert for equipment/processes in utility areas.
* Monitor utility systems and optimize unit operations and equipment performance.
* Lead troubleshooting efforts relating to unit operations and equipment issues.
* Utilize formal problem solving techniques, including Root Cause Analysis, to resolve unit operations and equipment issues.
* Respond to unit operations issues and equipment failures, document appropriately and ensure resolution through actions.
* Communicate effectively with others, especially team members, operations, and crafts personnel.
* Evaluate activities for impact on qualified state of unit operations/equipment and utilize appropriate business processes as necessary.
* Responsible for system/component classification and maintenance strategy for equipment.
* Implement corrections, corrective actions, and countermeasures arising from investigations.
* Lead IQ/OQ/PQ activities, including commissioning activities of new unit operations/equipment.
* Develop scope for capital projects targeted at both short and longer term needs. Act as user representative for local projects.
* Identify and drive improvement opportunities associated with unit operations/equipment within the area.
Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Mechanical / Process / Chemical / Bioprocess Engineering with ideally 5-10 years' relevant experience in Utility / Process Engineering.
* Deep technical interest and understanding in the field of Large Molecule Manufacturing and Bioprocess Engineering.
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a Process Team consisting of diverse professionals.
* Creativity to identify improvement opportunities and tenacity/initiative to see them implemented.
* Guidance/mentoring of others through processes.
* Drive Utility area continuous improvements; capital projects and reliability upgrades.
* Maintain a strong network of peers within and outside of Eli Lilly.
* Communication skills.
* Develop and implement innovative approaches to problems.
* Process hazard identification/mitigation skills.