At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader, and 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 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.
Abbott Ireland
In Ireland, Abbott employs around 6,000 people across ten sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.
Diabetes Care Kilkenny
Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be 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. At Abbott in Kilkenny, you can shape your career as you help shape the future of healthcare.
This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:
As a Technical Materials Specialist you will work closely with various ADC stakeholders including Validation, PMO, Operations, Supply Chain, Global Engineering, Quality, and the wider Technical Services team. This is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary role, requiring the ability to multi-task, prioritise, and work on own initiative with minimal oversight.
Responsibilities
1. Support the preparation of protocols, Engineering test scripts and reports to ensure the compliant implementation of new components across all factories and production lines.
2. Support Supplier Quality, Ops QA and CAPA teams with component-related investigations.
3. Support the development of new processes to ensure the smooth running of the materials function and effective integration with other cross-functional processes.
4. Support the development of new materials procedures and work instructions.
5. Support the preparation and review of Engineering Change requests (ECs) and Change Impact Assessments (CIAs).
6. Working with the OpEx team, support the development of Power BI trackers and dashboards to capture relevant materials KPIs and metrics.
7. Support the development of a Components Defect Library and roll-out awareness training to all relevant Operations and Quality functions.
8. Support the preparation and oversight of all line trial requests and liaise with Material Planners in scheduling same.
9. Represent the materials team at daily production and CFT project meetings.
10. Support relevant site teams for BOMs and Agile related work.
11. Through training and experience, become a product knowledge expert across all ADC KKY materials.
12. Acts as delegate for the Material Engineering Manager, when required.
13. Apply LEAN methodologies to drive operational excellence.
14. Participate in cross-functional activities as necessary, to ensure continual improvement, safety and compliance.
15. Identify areas of improvement and risk.
16. Ensure compliance with industry standards and global regulations.
17. Learn, challenge, develop and maintain a working knowledge of Abbott Quality Policy and Procedures.
Education and Experience
1. Level 7 NFQ Qualification in Science/Engineering or Equivalent.
2. Working in a manufacturing environment – GxP experience preferred.
3. Validation experience desirable.
4. Materials /Supply Chain experience desirable.
5. Project experience desirable.
6. CAPA/Quality investigation experience beneficial.
What we Offer
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as:
* Family health insurance.
* Excellent pension scheme.
* Life assurance.
* Career Development.
* Fantastic new facility.
* Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
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