Join Our Team at Abbott Ireland
At Abbott, you will play a crucial role in helping people live more fully at all stages of their lives. As a global healthcare leader, our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.
Our Presence in Ireland
In Ireland, we employ around 6,000 people across ten sites. We have manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford, Sligo, and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Additionally, we have commercial, support operations, and shared services in Dublin and Galway.
Diabetes Care Kilkenny
Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility serves as a centre for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies that enable people with diabetes to live the best and fullest lives they can.
Make a Difference at Abbott
* As the Facilities Manager, you will be responsible for the leadership, strategic direction, and execution of hard and soft services for the Abbott Kilkenny manufacturing site.
* This includes strategic facility planning and day-to-day management, the design, planning, construction, and maintenance of equipment, machinery, and buildings.
* In this role, you will plan and budget for all facility projects while ensuring sustained reliability of the Plant facilities.
Responsibilities:
* Planning of future facility activities, budgets, projects, and day-to-day site operations.
* Sourcing and maintaining all relevant facilities equipment and services, including cost, schedule, and performance.
* Maintaining data management methods, procedures, and reports for all facilities functions.
* Participating in and supporting the progress of failure/quality/customer complaint investigations and reporting on implementation of CAPAs assigned to the process area.
* Coordinating and contributing to the design of SOPs, protocols, specifications, and validation documentation.
* Continuous improvement of the plant's Environmental, Health, and Safety performance.
* Providing direction, training, and development of the Facilities team.
Qualifications and Experience:
* 10 years of relevant experience in a similar industry.
* Degree-qualified in Engineering or a related degree.
* Strong background in Facilities Management, preferably in a regulated environment.
* People Management experience.
* Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices and facilities management software/tools.
* Lean six sigma qualified (desirable) green belt or black belt.
* Experience establishing programs.
* Strong Problem-Solving skills.
* Communication and influencing skills.
What We Offer:
* An attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, family health insurance, an excellent pension scheme, life assurance, career development, a fantastic new facility, and access to many more benefits.