Maintenance Shift Supervisor - Weekend Manufacturing Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Waterford; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie, based at Westport, Ireland, seeks a Maintenance Shift Supervisor to lead day-to-day maintenance for Manufacturing Operations. The role reports to the Associate Director, managing engineers and technicians to ensure continuity and effectiveness of manufacturing.

Candidates should be self-motivated with autonomy and work on weekend rotating shifts (days, evenings, nights). The successful candidate will oversee tool-box talks, training, and planning, coordinate with external vendors, and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a highly regulated industry in a similar role.
• Detailed functional knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing equipment is required.
• Proven instrumentation/troubleshooting ability.
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential as you will interact with external vendors, auditors, inspectors and other external parties.

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuity across shifts, throughout the week, including handovers.
• Review and approve timecards for all PSEs.
• Ensure adherence to training schedule, toolbox talks, WO coordination, WO reviews.
• Complete weekly review of PH sheets for accuracy and completeness.
• Arrange shift cover for A/L, approval of A/L requests.
• Set goals, performance management and development of all direct reports.
• Input to weekly planning meeting.
• Represent Engineering shift support at meetings.
• Resolve manufacturing escalations in a timely manner.
• Coordinate resources including outside contractors/services engineers and commissioning engineers.
• Work closely with Technical Shift Leaders/Operation Supervisors to ensure interdepartmental activities are planned and executed safely.
• Responsible for engineering compliance with all safety, environmental and quality related BOPs.
• Adhere to and follow all procedures policies and guidelines ensuring compliance with cGMP and HPRA/FDA regulations and company policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Documentation of all activities in line with cGMP requirements.
• Cross train within the team and train new team members.
• Maintain the overall cGMP of the pharmaceutical processing areas.
• Build an ethos of Right First Time.

Skills

Maintenance leadership

Regulatory compliance

Troubleshooting

Team development

Job description

AbbVie, based at Westport, Ireland, seeks a Maintenance Shift Supervisor to lead day-to-day maintenance for Manufacturing Operations. The role reports to the Associate Director, managing engineers and technicians to ensure continuity and effectiveness of manufacturing.

Candidates should be self-motivated with autonomy and work on weekend rotating shifts (days, evenings, nights). The successful candidate will oversee tool-box talks, training, and planning, coordinate with external vendors, and