Role Purpose:
* A new opportunity has arisen for a Visual Inspection Process Engineer to join our client's busy biopharmaceutical facility in Co. Waterford.
* Reporting to the Team Lead, you will play an integral role within the Product Supply Unit's team, ensuring reliable supply of syringe and vial products to patients globally.
* The Product Supply APU consists of multiple platforms for the PFS inspection, assembly, labelling, cartoning, of autoinjectors and prefilled syringes and vials. The platforms range from manual processes through to high-speed, high volume automated production lines.
Core Duties and Responsibilities:
* Provide process engineering support to the Product Supply APU.
* Support delivery of continuous improvement projects to existing equipment.
* Work closely with various departments, such as MSAT, Technical Development, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain.
* Lead and coordinate elements of an automated inspection project and contribute to process engineering activities related to the development of new and existing manufacturing capacity.
* Utilisation of knowledge gained from existing manufacturing technologies to aid in the development of new technologies with the goal of implementing higher output and yield.
* Ensure safety compliance, providing technical and engineering support for process and equipment failures, identifying, and implementing process and product improvements, supporting qualification of new products/processes, analysing machine performance data, and managing improvement projects within budget and time constraints with a distinct focus on AVI inspection.
* Support new product introductions and capacity expansions, including new vendor selections, maintenance planning, design changes, change controls, OEE improvement, yield improvement, etc.
* Lead systematic technical root cause investigations.
* Support all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.
Education & Qualifications Required:
* Honours degree in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical or Process Chemical).
* Experience in a highly regulated GMP environment.
* Degree in an Engineering discipline.
* Strong problem solving and communication skills.
* Strong documentation/protocol generation and execution skills.
* Automation experience with vision systems is desirable.