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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 6,500 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.\nAbout Abbott\nAbbott 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.\n*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\npractitioner designated by the Company\nPrimary Function / Goals / Objectives\nThe Manufacturing Engineering Manager is responsible for consulting any SOP’s for any job task he/she may carry out and ensure they fully understand and adhere to the SOP.\nDirect responsibility to lead and manage team of engineers and maintenance which maintain, monitor, plan, and improve packaging equipment performance and life cycle. Organization will include approx. 5-8 multi disciplined engineers and 18 skilled craft.\nMonitor and improve equipment reliability through the use of KPI’s, problem solving tools, and action plans\nManages budget across capital equipment improvements and maintenance\nDevelops staffing plans for technical support in packing\nThis Job function will change where update procedures to GMP, EHS, Technical / New Equipment, Quality Procedures & SOP’s are made.\nThis list of responsibilities may change depending on plant needs and employees are expected to be adaptable and flexible where this need arises.\nMajor Responsibilities\nGeneral Management:\nProvide leadership, supervision & motivation to the engineering team\nEnsure that critical metrics are monitored regularly and that clear process improvement plans are implemented for any issues that impact these metrics\nRepresent the engineering department at strategic and daily operations meetings\nHandle all packing engineering/maintenance headcount planning, development, reviews and goal setting for department\nLiaise with EH&S to ensure safe working standards and practices are being designed and adhered to in the manufacturing process.\nCollaborate with multi-functional peers on key business initiatives. Actively participate in these discussions in a fully transparent manner and bring data to these discussions based on the knowledge and input from your team.\nCreates plans and holds self and others accountable to right first time and ontime\nActively manages and develops staff competencies through training programs and development of SOP’s\nActively monitors staff workload and capacity\nPromote a positive culture that focuses on continuous improvement & operational excellence\nDemonstrate Abbott’s Leadership Competencies (Anticipate, Innovate, Deliver Results, Build, Set Vision & Strategy).\nGMP, Quality, Compliance and Food Safety:\nEnsure a strict Food Safety & GMP Compliance Culture by maintaining an audit ready Maximo System and following guidelines for change management from a documentation perspective\nOwn efforts required to deliver quality and compliance performance for the department of accountability. Coach and direct individuals to be in position to take appropriate action related to quality and compliance issues\nEnsure & reinforce personnel to adhere and follow all Quality & Compliance Policies and Procedures\nManage the Preventative Maintenance (PM) program for the Packing department, ensuring all PM activities are completed on time with appropriate follow through ensuring no overdue PM’s escalated within the Quality System. Manage the Demand Maintenance program ensuring there are no ageing DM’s that result in gaps in the Quality System and / or impact line productivity.\nPrepare for and actively participate in internal and external Quality/Regulatory audits. Accountable for sustaining audit readiness through reinforcement of key programs such as 5S program, Master sanitation, PM program, etc. Prioritize and manage exceptions and abnormal events coupled with timely implementation of corrective and preventative actions. Accountable to ensure all GQMS investigations/actions are closed in a timely manner.\nFinancial/Business Responsibility:\nEnsure and monitor adherence to the Maintenance and Capital Budget Plan for Packing\nResponsible for submitting financial LBE’s as per the fiscal financial calendar\nTrack and trend maintenance budget adherence to ensure healthy financials to properly maintain equipment site wide\nDeveloping and submitting annual Maintenance and Capital Budget for packing\nOwn efforts required to assist in development of budget and deliver to all financial performance metrics and achieve the Profit & Loss (P&L).\nContinuous drive to identify and execute cost improvement projects that match product cost glide path strategies\nAllocate the appropriate maintenance spending to each area of the organization based on facts and data considering failure frequency, risk of failure, reliability factors, age and obsolescence of assets and parts\nIntegration of the maintenance functions to the Plant Capital Planning Process\nReliability Engineering:\nCreates and monitors appropriate metrics which improve equipment reliability and performance\nDevelops culture which uses problem solving tools\nDrive to ensure successful root cause of asset driven events and follow through robust corrective and preventive action plans to prevent reoccurrence\nDevelops appropriate skill sets internally to prevent failures\nDevelop the strategies to improve equipment uptime and availability\nManage the continual optimization of the asset care program through condition monitoring and Preventive Maintenance\nAbility to monitor, track and report Maintenance Performance across the business\nIdentify plans to balance internal competencies with external support\nDeveloping and maintaining the Asset Management Program for Packing\nProject Management:\nEstablishes workable and trackable schedules. Sets performance metrics.\nMaintains project controls and reporting for cost, scope and schedule.\nCompliance:\nComplies 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.\nEnsures quality and effectiveness of assigned tasks.\nHas awareness of the potential consequences of changes to established processes.\nIdentifies areas of risk with respect to compliance.\nSupervisory/Management Responsibilities\nA number of employees report directly and indirectly to this position. Direct employees include Engineers (Reliability, Maintenance & Automation). Indirect employees include Electricians and Fitters.\nEducation Required:\nBachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent discipline\nKnowledge & Experience:\nMinimum of 10 years relevant experience in engineering and maintenance including at least 3 years as a manager.\nStrong interpersonal and demonstrated leadership skills are essential, along with ability to operate comfortably in a fast moving and flexible environment.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, problem resolution and analytical skills.\nDemonstrated strong technical skills in a high volume manufacturing environment\nAccountability / Scope\nEquipment reliability and OEE improvements\nWorks under general direction. Independently determines and develops approach to solutions. 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