Engineering Manager

Permanent
Clonmel
You will manage teams within the Pharmaceutical/Biological Process Sub-Function. You will focus is on policy and strategy implementation and control rather than development.
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Purpose of the Job
Provides support to the manufacturing organisation to facilitate efficient operations within the production area, optimise existing processes, and ensure that production goals are met. Monitors performance of equipment, machines, and tools and corrects equipment problems or process parameters that produce non-conforming products, low yields or product quality issues. Interfaces with research and development organisations to integrate new products or processes into the existing manufacturing area.
Major Responsibilities
  • Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for  additional  personnel,  obtaining approval  for changes, and coordinating the selection  process with human resources.
  • Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
  • Monitors daily work operations and provides direction and guidance to lower-level supervisors, experienced exempt employees, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
  • Interacts with internal and external customers, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures. Interprets and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
  • Contributes to the development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organizational unit. Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures for example compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), British Standards Institution (BSI), relevant employment law etcetera (etc.).
  • Monitors internal and external indicators by reviewing reports and newsletters, reading organizational literature, meeting with peers and reading departmental reports. Contributes to the development and monitoring of area budget through regular analysis of cost and spending.
  • Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
Education & Competencies
  • National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline and 6+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • Monitors progress of exempt individuals, teams, supervisors, or nonexempt technical individuals toward departmental goals. Monitors costs of projects and of human and material resources within a department or unit, monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility. Will be performing this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
  • Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned area or related departments, facilitates others involvement in the continuous improvement program; investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and personnel within the assigned unit.
  • Promotes the attainment of group goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff. Provides leadership to assigned units by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving group objectives.
  • Schedules human and material resources within a group or section in conjunction with near- term plans to ensure their availability; carries out operations within an established budget.
  • Assignments are  expressed  in the form of tasks and objectives, generally makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines regarding work processes or schedules in order to achieve the program objectives established by senior management; consequences of erroneous decisions would normally result in serious delays to assigned projects or operations  with  substantial expenditure of time, human  resources, and  funds, without jeopardizing future business activity.
  • Works under minimal supervision. Independently determines and develops approach to solutions. Work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.
  • Provides direction and guidance to supervisors, experienced exempt and/or skilled nonexempt levels of employees, evaluates performance of and assists in career development planning for subordinates, often responsible for a local functional or process activity.