Reliability Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Abbott Ireland Nutrition Division Cootehill Cavan

Abbott Nutrition produces a range of infant formulae in all pack sizes under the brand name “Similac”. To complement the range of “Similac” infant formulae, the facility also manufactures a range of follow on formulae under the brand name of “Gain”. The essential ingredient is liquid skim milk and this is combined with carbohydrate, vegetable oils, vitamins and minerals. The product is blended, pasteurised, dried and packaged at the site and once packaged, is distributed to Europe, South East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Canada.

 Established in 1975, Abbott Nutrition in Ireland is the largest powder manufacturing facility for the production of infant formulae within the Abbott Corporation worldwide. Approximately 1,000 dairy farms in Ireland and Northern Ireland supply quality milk to the Cootehill facility which processes 500,000 litres per day. This secure supply together with Ireland’s reputation as a green, clean environment is of significant strategic importance to Abbott Nutrition.

Primary Function / Goals / Objectives

Manage risk to the achievement of an organization’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality and production. Some tools used by a reliability engineer to identify and reduce risk include:

• PHA – Preliminary hazards analysis

• FMEA – Failure modes and effects analysis

• CA – Criticality analysis

• SFMEA – Simplified failure modes and effects analysis

• MI – Maintainability information

• FTA – Fault tree analysis

• ETA – Event tree analysis

• Administer policies and procedures as they apply to employees.

• Plan and schedule work in accordance with plant demand and available manpower.

• Ensure compliance with Abbott International Global Standards, GMP & environmental requirements.

• Responsible for promoting good employee relations.

• Ensure all Abbott employees & contractors under his/her direction are fully familiar with all Safety Rules and regulations.

• Ensure all efforts are made to reduce product cost by improving efficiencies.

• Drive a Continuous Improvement culture through effective RCA & PPS.

• Ensure all employees follow correct procedure when carrying out hot work, working at height and confined space entry ensuring work permits are fully in compliance with SOPs.

• This job function will change where update procedures to GMP, EHS, Technical/New Equipment, Quality procedures and SOPs are made. 

• Support Business Excellence initiative in the plant. 

• This list of responsibilities may change depending on plant needs and employees are expected to be adaptable and flexible where this need arises. 

Major Responsibilities

• With the Engineering Manager define relevant KPIs, cognisant of current site objectives and how these objectives cascade down to departmental objectives.

• Services, troubleshoots, and solves engineering problems with processes or equipment already in operation to maximise uptime / Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and other relevant KPIs.

• Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability of new and modified installations. The reliability engineer is responsible for adhering to the life cycle asset management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets.

• Participates in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Participates in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develops acceptance tests and inspection criteria.

• Participates in the final check-out of new installations. This includes factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications.

• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.

• May be responsible for corrective and preventive actions and investigation management.

• Interact collaboratively within cross-functional teams including engineering, manufacturing, quality, technical and materials with the objective of delivering key site projects focused on operations, utilities and facilities areas.

• S/he must have ability to problem solve and have the attributes to promote this behavior when driving improvements to equipment inefficiencies and projects. Use lean six sigma tools to drive root cause identification and corrective/preventative measures.

• Conduct business in a manner that will protect human health, safety and the environment by complying with all applicable EHS laws, as well at the Abbott Global and Technical standards.

• Embed lean thinking and OPEX principles across the engineering department. Lead efforts to Identify waste and subsequent projects (CIP) to eliminate this waste delivering quantifiable € savings.

• The Reliability Engineer will guide efforts to track and reduce carbon emissions, maximising energy efficiency across the site focusing on scope 1 emissions (Utilities) and scope 2 emissions (imported electricity).

• Optimises the Predictive vs Preventative maintenance routine mix, utilising the current Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to define, track and manage specific KPIs

• The Reliability Engineer will work with the OT manager to define the OT strategy for the department and implement said strategy.

• Engages in Structure Problem Solving to eliminate recurring issues

• Utilise Data Analytics, six sigma, to drive intentional improvement initiatives

​Education Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent discipline

Knowledge

• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience in Engineering.

• Prior experience in a manufacturing environment is essential, or in-depth knowledge of key ultilities, e.g. steam, refrigeration, compressed air, HVAC etc.

• Knowledge of an Automated Manufacturing Environment with a good solid understanding of FMCG and Utility equipment is essential

• The ability to organize, motivate and understand people [Contractors, Equipment Suppliers and team members]

• Good mental ability to logically follow a line of thought for problem solving. 

Accountability / Scope

• Individual contributor with comprehensive knowledge in the areas of Dairy Processing and Utilities/Facilities.

• Key participant in executing highly complex or specialized projects.

• Adapts precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop customized solutions.

• Considerable and continual care and attention is needed to avoid substantial damage to 
  equipment. 

• Continual attention needed to ensure plant operates to plan. 

• Ensure Capital budgets are controlled with all expenditure value add.

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