Operations Engineer

Job Description

An amazing opportunity has arisen for anOperations Engineer

What you will do:

Bring energy, knowledge, innovation, and leadership to carry out the following:

• Materials management – planning delivery of required materials to shopfloor for all Pharm Ops production campaigns, transfer request of materials on time to meet the production schedule. Escalation of any material issues pre-campaign as part of the production planning.

• Equipment management - Supports day to day production activity on the shopfloor to ensure equipment available for campaigns, downtime minimised, and production schedule realised.

• Data Integrity lead for Operations

• Leads small improvement projects in production to deliver IPT targets using appropriate Lean tools including the implementation of turnaround improvements, reduction of process variability, and waste elimination

• Provide support for Pharm Ops Model Areas including 12-week sprint initiatives in constraint modules.

• Operations Digital Visual Factory lead – focus on paperless operations and utilisation of Power BI, Spotfire, O365 tools, e-logs, eshopfloor to support digitisation

• Management of standard work boards; update and creation where required

• Commercialisation support -  operationalisation of clinical and development campaigns and planning and supporting execution of any non-standard activities

• Author Operations related Deviations. Provide Operational expertise on other ancillary deviations

• GMP compliance – completion of factory walkdowns and closure of observations

What skills you will need:

In order to excel in this role, you will more than likely have:

• Hold a Third Level qualification in Manufacturing, Engineering or Science discipline OR, Relevant Manufacturing Formulation experience

• Have at least 2 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment

• Strong communication skills and an ability to collaborate and influence across functions

• Lean Six Sigma Certification an advantage

• Interest and experience in Digital tools an advantage (Power BI, Spotfire, O365 tools, eshopfloor etc)

• SAP/MES knowledge/experience

• Project management (not essential)

• Deviation management (not essential)

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