Industrial Engineer

at  Abbott Laboratories

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.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering / Science
• +3 Years Relevant Experience, In-depth knowledge and application of industrial engineering techniques, measurement of OEE, and knowledge of Lean Sigma tools

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

To identify, review and lead strategic Industrial Engineering activities leading to improvements in efficiency, processes and utilisation of equipment, materials and personnel across ADC.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for identifying and implementing improvements to strategic site operations and processes to support the delivery of site goals.
• Lead industrial engineering activities relating to clean room and equipment expansion programs and achievement of planned capacity.
• Apply engineering methods to deliver models and presentations relating to facility, capacity and expansion planning and recommendations to management
• Measure and report on efficiency data. Maintain oversight of manufacturing data routinely collected to ensure necessary data is available to inform strategic decision making. Use influencing skills to ensure outcomes of analysis are implemented to good effect.
• Recommend and develop manufacturing methods and tools that support and promote improvements in the utilisation of people, equipment, processes materials and utilities across all business processes.
• Establish, set and maintain process standards and the capacity book, measuring performance to plan. Deliver solutions to address unfavourable variances. Through knowledge and Lean Sigma tools identify and deliver improvements to reduce waste and improve process and system performance.
• Analyse capacity requirements to achieve output, propose labour and equipment resources to achieve business plans. Develop and lead continuous improvement projects, working cross functionally to implement changes that deliver savings across the business.
• Work closely with Systems and Process Engineers to develop and improve dashboard visualisation to support manufacturing teams
• Note: This job description describes the principal and main elements of the job. It is a guide to the nature and main duties of the job as they currently exist but it is not intended as a wholly or comprehensive or permanent representation.