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At Apleona Ireland, we believe a strong culture and fulfilled team is the foundation of our success – built on collaboration, innovation, and empowerment.
We are looking for a Reliability & Facilities Engineer to join our team in a pharma setting in Carrigtwohill , Co Cork
Working pattern: Monday to Friday from 08:00-16:30
Main duties & responsibilities:
- Identify and mitigate equipment reliability risks to prevent facility downtime.
- Develop and optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
- Investigate equipment failures and use tools like FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) to eliminate recurring issues.
- Oversee building utilities, HVAC, power, water, and related systems to maintain safe and compliant working environments.
- Track key indicators like Time Between Failures and Time to Repair, Overall Equipment Effectiveness
- Support daily and weekly maintenance planning by identifying risk, repeat work, overdue actions, access requirements, specialist support and critical materials.
- Coach technicians in systematic troubleshooting, accurate fault coding, work-order closeout, evidence capture and reliability-centred thinking.
- Escalate unresolved technical or compliance concerns through the appropriate engineering and client channels.
- Improve CMMS data quality by standardising asset hierarchy, failure codes, work types, priorities, completion notes and closure requirements.
- Ensure new and modified assets are accurately registered in the CMMS with appropriate criticality, maintenance plans, documentation, bills of materials and ownership.
- Work with equipment owners, manufacturing engineering and operations to ensure interventions on production assets are coordinated and aligned with quality and production requirements
- Regular onsite attendance and active engagement in plant areas are essential requirements of the role.
- Flexibility may be required to support critical failures, planned shutdowns, investigations or project activities outside normal working hours.
Qualifications and experience
- Degree, higher diploma or recognized trade qualification with relevant engineering experience in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, maintenance, building services or a related discipline.
- Demonstrable experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering or technical facilities management within a complex of manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical device or similarly regulated environment.
- Strong working knowledge of reliability principles, failure analysis, RCA, FMEA or FMECA, asset criticality and preventive or predictive maintenance strategies.
- Proven ability to extract, validate and interpret CMMS data and convert analysis into practical maintenance and asset improvements.
- Experience with CMMS/ CAFM platforms and Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools is desirable.
Interested to find out more? Please apply below
We look forward to receiving your application!
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