Engineering Front Line Lead, Cavan

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 utilisation, and manages overtime.

Administrates policies and procedures as they apply to employees.

Plans and schedules work in accordance with plant demand and available manpower.

Leads a team of 4‑6 craft personnel.

Problem Solving

Provides a centralized, strategic look across equipment performance (downtime).

Improves maintenance processes, recognises and implements process improvements and cost reductions, creatively applies others’ ideas.

Facilitates root cause analysis for equipment downtime, including RCA tools– 3C’s, 5 Why’s, Fishbone.

Develops and executes reliability studies and evaluations of equipment robustness.

Project Management

Drives 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, 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

Provides 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 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.

Organisational 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 and interacting effectively with stakeholders at appropriate levels of the organisation.

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

Inputs information to the production stream technical database including all shared learnings from improvements, routines, problem solving, preventive maintenance and autonomous maintenance activities.

Logs, records and trends the usage of all spare parts.

Feeds 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.

Supervises 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).

Plans, implements and performs 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.

Ability to organise, 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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