Plant Process Engineer - APICOM

Plant Process Engineer - APICOM

Location: College Park, Dublin

Full Time, Permanent

Competitive salary and benefits

Closing date: 04/02/2025

At AstraZeneca, we’re dedicated to pushing the boundaries of science and unleashing your entrepreneurial spirit. Join us in making a difference to medicine, patients, and society. Our culture champions diversity, collaboration, and lifelong learning. Be part of a team where everyone feels a personal connection to the people we impact. From our science labs to large-scale manufacturing, we are committed to delivering the highest quality. It’s inspiring and rewarding work, influencing every part of the product lifecycle to deliver life-changing medicines that ultimately make people’s lives better – from patients and their families to all of us in society!

Joining the Engineering and Maintenance team, the Plant Process Engineer will support API manufacture to meet business demands for the new AstraZeneca API facility being constructed in College Park Dublin, Ireland (known as APICOM), with commercial operations set to commence in 2026.

Accountabilities

Initially, you'll be part of a cross-functional team providing project technical support to ensure the design of the new APICOM facility is safe, efficient, and long-term operability is factored in. You will ensure that best maintenance practices are utilized in all equipment setup, including but not limited to functional location creation, development of maintenance job plan content, generation of maintenance-related procedures, spares part identification, and service level agreement establishment.

Longer term, you will play a lead role in the team by becoming a technical equipment expert for your areas under remit, organizing and managing service providers, supporting the Maintenance manager/technicians in day-to-day management by acting as front-line support on effective and efficient maintenance of all Process, Utilities, Facilities, and Tank Farm equipment including machine troubleshooting, investigations of major breakdowns, and technical improvement activities while meeting regulatory, quality (GMP), and safety (SHE) requirements.

The role also involves developing continuous improvement plans for your area of responsibility to maximize availability, quality, throughput, and cost-effectiveness by employing digital tools and operational excellence tools to provide continuous improvement to equipment reliability. You will liaise with other AZ sites to share best practices and learning, take ownership of the Maintenance Appraisal Process for equipment in your area, and complete Failure Mode Effective Analysis on high criticality equipment. Assist with implementing operational excellence programs such as Total Productive Maintenance and 5S.

This position requires both a strong technical background in Engineering and Maintenance and the capability to collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Equipment Maintenance and Continuous Improvement
• Problem-solving, technical support, learning
• Safety, Health and Environment
• GMP / Compliance and Ethical Conduct
• Delivery / Supply
• Cost
• Lean & Agile Culture / Standardized ways of working

Essential Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or a relevant technical qualification (HND etc) in Engineering
• Significant experience in Process/Utilities/Facilities, Maintenance or/& project experience including Reactors, HVAC, Purified water, Clean Steam, Process abatement systems within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience with CMMS such as Infor/SAP/Maximo
• Experience in leading and delivering Reliability initiatives, Change Control and Change Management.
• Proven teamwork and leadership skills, with strong communication and organizational skills.
• Problem-solving experience and skills.
• Technical and/or engineering capabilities
• Data-driven to evaluate process performance for the purpose of problem-solving and optimization.
• API Pharmaceutical manufacturing awareness
• GMP awareness

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Proven industrial supervision/project management experience in a relevant engineering field (preferably Mechanical, Process or Plant Engineering) and ideally within the Pharmaceutical Industry.
• Continuous Improvement Tools and Techniques training (5S, Lean RCM etc.)
• Experience in Operational Excellence at Green Belt level.

AstraZeneca offers an environment where you can thrive with standardized ways of working driven by Lean principles. Embrace creativity, dig deep into problem-solving together, and drive efficiencies through our processes. We focus on what truly matters while fostering a positive space where ideas are welcomed and rewarded.

If you are ready to make a big impact and contribute to life-changing medicines, apply now!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.