Plant Maintenance Engineer Location: Dublin, Ireland Competitive Salary and Bonus Introduction to role APICOM is the new upcoming AstraZeneca API facility being constructed in College Park, Dublin, with commercial operations set to commence in ****.
The APICOM Maintenance Technician position will support the API manufactures to meet the required business demands (kgs, timings and scale-up learning).
Accountabilities Initially, the APICOM Plant Process Engineer will be part of a cross functional team providing project technical support to ensure the design of the new APICOM facility is safe, efficient, and long-term operability is factored in.
They will ensure that best maintenance practice are utilized in all equipment setup, including but not limited to functional location creation, development of maintenance job plan content, generation maintenance related procedures, spares part identification, and service level agreement establishment.
Longer term, the APICOM Plant Process Engineer will be responsible for, playing a lead role in the Engineering and Maintenance team, by becoming a technical equipment expert for their areas under their remit, organizing and managing service providers, supporting the Maintenance manager/technicians in the day to day management by acting as front line support on effective and efficient maintenance of all Process, Utilities, Facilities and Tank Farm equipment including machine troubleshooting, investigations of major breakdowns and technical improvement activities while meeting regulatory, quality (GMP) and safety (SHE) requirements.
Also, APICOM Plant Process Engineer is is responsible for the development of continuous improvement plans for their area of responsibility in order to maximize availability, quality, throughput and cost effectiveness, by employing digital tools and operational excellence tools to provide continuous improvement to equipment reliability, liaising with other AZ sites to share best practice and learning, taking ownership of the Maintenance Appraisal Process for equipment in their area and completion of Failure Mode Effective Analysis on high criticality equipment.
Assist with implementation of operational excellence programs such as Total Productive Maintenance and 5S.
This position requires both a strong technical background in Engineering and Maintenance and the capability to collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.
Essential Skills/Experience Bachelor's Degree or a relevant technical qualification (HND etc) in Engineering Previous experience in Process/Utilities/ Facilities, Maintenance or/