Engineering Associate Role
This exciting opportunity is available in our Operations & Supply Chain team as an Engineering Associate in our Ballyragget facility.
As an Engineering Associate, you will report to the Senior Project Engineer and work closely with mechanical and electrical crafts to resolve problems relating to plant efficiencies and drive continuous improvement.
You will be responsible for maintaining preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance programmes, and delivering planned maintenance schedules in line with production related requirements.
In addition, you will work in conjunction with the quality department to produce product in full compliance with our HACCP program and ensure all plant procedures, documentation, and cleanliness are audit ready 365 days per year.
You will also contribute to project scoping, design, installation, and commissioning of capital expenditure projects and have responsibility for individual engineering related projects.
Key Responsibilities
* Apply best practice of safe systems in a busy production environment.
* Problem solving and continuous improvement: Work as part of a broader production/process team and utilising team based problem solving employing lean / 6 sigma techniques through the Glanbia Performance System (GPS), our platform for enterprise excellence.
* Utilities: Working with our utility plants, water treatment, boilers, effluent, refrigeration, compressed air and site service functions including the co-ordination of utility plant requirements with maintenance and engineering.
* Data analysis: Trending and analysis of plant performance data to evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance and calibration systems allowing for continuous improvement on key metrics
* Maintenance: Supporting and maintaining preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance programmes, and delivering planned maintenance schedules in line with production related requirements.
* Quality: Working in conjunction with the quality department to produce product in full compliance with our HACCP program.
* Ensuring that all the plant procedures, documentation and cleanliness are audit ready 365 days per year.
* Capital expenditure projects: Working with engineering, leadership and other key stakeholders to input into project scoping, design, installation through to commissioning.
* Process engineering and projects engineering: Project management, design, proposal and implementation with responsibility for individual engineering related projects, working with colleagues internally and externally contracted
Requirements
* High academic record to date in the following fields of study: Engineering (Mechanical, Automation, Process, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental) or related discipline; and expected minimum of a 2.2 honours primary degree
* Ambition to progress successfully in a career in engineering in an exciting, ever-changing and challenging environment
* Thinks commercially and delivers customer centric solutions
* Drives collaboration and builds partnerships to meet shared objectives
* Communicates clearly and can influence at all levels
* Demonstrates a thirst for knowledge with a desire to continually learn and grow
* Analytically minded with the ability to develop creative insights and execute change
* Accessibility to move between production sites is a distinct advantage