About Abbott Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Abbott in Ireland Abbott has maintained a strong presence in Ireland since 1946 and celebrates its 80th anniversary in the country in 2026. The company supports the Irish healthcare sector with a broad portfolio spanning diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. Today, Abbott employs more than 6,200 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.
We have an exciting opportunity as an Engineering Front Line Leader working in our Engineering Department and this role will involve the following:
Purpose of the Job
Manage the preventive and predictive maintenance programs, manage maintenance line support, coordinate plant shutdown assignments and oversee the contractors work, provide capital project input and support as well as overseeing the maintenance resources necessary to assure the production plan is met and/or exceeded while maintaining a zero-incident safety mindset, teamwork attitude and excellent customer service.
Major Responsibilities
Leadership
Holds themselves and others accountable to delivering results on time and right first time.
Plans work, monitors labour utilization, and manages overtime.
Administer policies and procedures as they apply to employees.
Plan and schedule work in accordance with plant demand and available manpower.
Lead a team of 4-6 craft personnel.
Problem Solving
Provide a centralized, strategic look across equipment performance (downtime).
Improves maintenance processes. Recognizes and implements process improvements and cost reductions; creatively applies others’ ideas.
Facilitates root cause analysis for equipment downtime, includes RCA tools – 3C’s, 5 Why’s, Fishbone.
Develops and executes reliability studies and evaluations of equipment robustness.
Project Management
Drive a culture of continuous improvement through defined CI Project Methodologies (CHARTER, SIPOC, FMEA, GANTT, etc.).
Coordinates and monitors activities within the Maintenance Excellence program. Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those people assigned to effort; participates in site assessments.
Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks.
Participates in economic analysis and feasibility studies. Jointly responsible for achieving financial targets in support of business objectives.
Technical/Design
Provide engineering & technical leadership to the manufacturing operations.
Independently gathers maintenance and manufacturing performance data (Maximo, Zarpac, etc.), and performs preliminary analysis. Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans to drive cost containment and cost reduction efforts.
Anticipates future directions. Benchmarks internally and externally. Assists with deployment of predictive and reliability centred maintenance strategies.
Organizational Interface
Ensures the engineering team and other manufacturing departments work together cohesively.
Mentors others by sharing information and providing feedback and guidance.
Prepares written communication. Conveys information effectively through formal and informal documents with team members.
Builds relationships. Initiates and cultivates open, honest relationships with colleagues, customers, contractors, and vendors by establishing rapport, interacts effectively with stakeholders at appropriate levels of the organization.
Compliance
Complies with all regulations and standards for quality, Environmental, Health, Safety, and Energy (EHS&E) Global Policies, Abbott Engineering Standards, and other governance areas as applicable.
Information Management
Input information to the production stream technical database including all shared learning’s from improvements, routines, problem solving, preventive maintenance and autonomous maintenance activities.
Spare Parts: to log, record and trend the usage of all spare parts.
Feedback all relevant technical information to production stream team members and to other team members in different production streams where relevant.
Additional Responsibilities May Include
Develops procedures and standards.
Directs the efforts of others such as technicians and outside resources.
Supervising the resources for Preventive/Predictive and Demand Maintenance.
Customer interface (in support of uptime and meeting production plan) and/or daily performance review meetings – Tier 1 ,2 & 3.
Leads capital plant projects or process improvement initiatives (i.e. Opex).
Plan, implement, and perform effectiveness checks for corrective actions on exception reports.
Education & Competencies Required
Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or equivalent discipline
1-3 years relevant experience in Engineering.
The ability to organize, motivate and understand people.
Ability to multi-task and to work in a high paced environment with an awareness of continued impact on production and the plant performance.
Organised and resourceful with excellent attention to detail and ability to get the job done.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Energy and self-motivation.
Proven Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Demonstrated time management skills - ability to handle multiple tasks, set priorities and meet deadlines.
Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical practitioner designated by the Company.
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