Senior Facilities Engineer

Azon are partnering with a well-known medical devices company in South Dublin to recruit for a Senior Facilities Engineer. The client prides themselves in offering a great environment of work, with a focus on flexibility and prioritising the wellbeing of their staff. They offer fantastic benefits that include a lot of flexibility for employees.

The successful candidate will assist the Facilities Leader in daily quality related activities. This role would be ideal for someone looking to build a career in Facilities, especially someone looking to move into a senior leadership role.

Location: Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.

Core activities include:

• Provision of technical support and escalation point for all facilities equipment, building services and general plant engineering.
• Ensure all plant equipment is maintained in a safe manner, with task-based risk assessments and/or safe plan of action in place for all plant maintenance tasks.
• Coordination and Management of Facilities Service contractors on site, ensuring clear plans are in place and contractors follow EHS and GMP standards.
• Ensure plant facilities are maintained and inspected as per quality management system. Completion of GMP documentation in accordance with applicable procedures.
• Participate in regulatory audits and inspections
• Support Management of the annual maintenance programme of all non-production equipment and plant facilities.
• Support capital expenditure projects and budget preparation for plant maintenance department including project costing.
• Conduct cost benefit and feasibility studies to verify capability and functionality of processes and support project justifications.
• Partner with cross functional teams from Operations, H&S, Quality, Process Development, Process Engineering, Supply Chain on wide range of projects.
• Update documentation via documentation control system.
• Drive energy reductions across the plant.
• Ensure any Intellectual Property aspects of development are identified and protected in conjunction with the Corporate Legal group.
• Participate in the site Continuous Improvement Programme.
• Ensure work is completed in a compliant manner with regard to both execution and documentation.
• Any other reasonable duties which may be required by management from time to time.

Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s Degree Engineering or National Craft Certificate together with additional specialised training and experience.
• 8+ years’ work experience, with 5 years’ experience in a similar role/environment.
• Familiarity with Trend or any other Building Management System.
• Strong Engineering background with good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Thorough knowledge of engineering principles of plant equipment – AHU’s, chillers, steam boilers, pumps, HVAC, water system management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly collaborative work style.
• Strong planning and organizational ability.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Track record in Project Management.
• Previous people management experience is a distinct advantage.