Manufacturing Engineer
Contract
Galway
Galway
GxP are delighted to be supporting our Medical Device client as they look to add a Manufacturing Engineer to their team. The successful candidate will provide daily support of products, processes, materials, and equipment in order to achieve production unit goals (i.e., People & Safety, Quality, Service, NPE, Cost & Productivity).
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications & Experience
Key Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership on product and process issues.
- Leading technical improvement under the team’s VIP program.
- Lead process improvement programs across people, service, quality and cost dimensions.
- Apply structured and systematic methodologies.
- Liaison with quality and engineering both internal to the plant and externally within the corporation.
- Participation, where appropriate, in the phase review process and the NPE meetings with respect to new products.
- Ongoing manufacturing support in order to help the team meet its business objectives of quality, output and cost.
- Maintain a valid capacity model in co-operation with the line Supervisor and conduct adequate advance planning for required capital.
- Provide leadership on Lean initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership/guidance for the Process Technician on the team (with specific responsibility to ensure that the preventative maintenance program is adequate and timely).
- Development and implementation of appropriate supporting documentation, which complies with GMP in conjunction with the other team members.
- Project planning, in detail, in support of major projects, product/process transfer etc.
- Evaluates in conjunction with EHS new equipment/processes/chemicals for environmental impact/effect to eliminate or lessen such impacts/effects.
- Responsible for other projects as assigned by the company.
Qualifications & Experience
- HETAC Level 8 qualification in engineering or a relevant field, with relevant experience
- Good technical capabilities, communication skills, teamwork abilities and initiative.
- New Equipment introductions
- Equipment and process validation
- Problem solving/Process improvement
- Projects execution experience
- Statistics / Six Sigma desirable
- Project Management