Maintenance Lead

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Headcount Solutions is sourcing a Maintenance Lead for a client’s biotech facility in Dublin. This person will support the Engineering Operations & Maintenance team in ensuring the highest levels of Safety compliance are applied in the field, within a busy, safety focused environment. The role will be heavily operationally focused, with in the field support for the team, finding workable solutions and mentoring/coaching on use of our safe systems of work.

Maintenance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the highest level of compliance to all regulatory safety requirements within the team.
• Co-ordinate safety-related activities in the operating unit and to ensure sustained and continuous improvement in EHSS compliance.
• Facilitate local compliance with the Incident/Accident management system.
• Support/execute safety investigations by providing SME input and support/execute subsequent CAPA completion, where required/assigned.
• Attend weekly SAT (Safety Action Teams) forum to provide support and focus on necessary safety-related themes/topics for discussion with Technicians and Engineers.
• Have complete oversight of area risk assessment program by ensuring non-routine tasks are identified and risk assessments are completed in a consistent and comprehensive way.
• Facilitate all RAMS reviews and approval with EHSS by being the focal point within the group (GMP Maintenance, Critical Utility Maintenance and Wastewater/Environmental Maintenance).
• Be the liaison in the operating unit with EHSS team for external audits. Network on EHSS issues within the business and across operating sites.
• Maintain a training matrix, recording all relevant EHSS training.
• Deliver ongoing continuous improvement to plant and processes when it comes to safe ways of working for a high performing team.
• Develop Safety compliance related metrics/KPIs/KBIs using appropriate data visualisation (e.g. using Spotfire/Tableau).
• Provide guidance, support and coaching to Reliability/Maintenance Technicians regarding safe ways of working in the field.
• Support development of Energy Control Plans, working alongside field Technicians.
  o Be the Department LOTO (Lockout Tagout) champion and support rollout, training and sustained compliance of refreshed COHE site standard.
• Where required, support Maintenance Lead teams with WO management (e.g. review of Safety centric work orders completed in field by Technicians).

Requirements:

• Hold a relevant engineering related qualification (Level 7/Level 8 BTech/BEng).
• Experience as a Maintenance Lead professional working with process equipment in a biologics, pharma, chemical or food manufacturing facility.
• Possess a good working knowledge of the relevant Engineering/Safety legislation.
• Experience of risk assessment, auditing and incident investigation processes.
• Working knowledge of Maximo or equivalent CMMS system.
• High level of attention to detail and strong problem solving abilities.

For further information please contact Mick on 086-04351895 or forward details in confidence to jobs@headcount.ie