A Process/ Utilities Engineer is required by CareerWise Recruitment to join our Cork based Biopharma client. The successful candidate will have ops type experience from an API environment with an engineering qualification.
ROLE:
* Ownership and accountability for utility systems within production buildings that support manufacturing, e.g. nitrogen, glycol, steam, waste, vent/vac, HVAC, purified water, solvents, etc.
* Proactively identify and implement improvement opportunities across the facility; utilities, process equipment, process safety, energy usage, business processes, etc
* Develop and maintain an equipment & building system optimisation plan
* Shared ownership of the process equipment and support systems with the manufacturing Process Engineers to maintain equipment uptime and productivity
* Act as the user representative for building utility / facility upgrade projects, inputting into design and leading the coordination of system handover with the projects and C&Q groups
* Work with maintenance on scheduling and completion of preventative maintenance and annual shutdowns to ensure no business interruption
* Support building (quality & EHS) compliance initiatives incl area audits walks, audit preparation and closure of compliance actions as appropriate
REQUIREMENTS:
* Process / Chem Engineering or similar L8 qualification
* Minimum five years experience in manufacturing areas such as;
* Production Operations/Unit Operation support (reactions, distillations, crystallizations, drying, milling etc)
* Production Operations Utility support (e.g. vacuum pumps, waste systems / tanks, scrubbers/vent header systems, solvent distribution systems, high/low pressure nitrogen distributions, purified water systems, vessel heat-transfer systems, HVAC, etc)
* Experience in Process Safety and Quality Compliance aspects of manufacturing and project delivery