Maintenance Supervisor

AbbVie; Ireland; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Maintenance Shift Supervisor for the Westport site to lead a team of engineers and technicians, ensuring continuous manufacturing and compliant operations. You will work evening, night shifts or weekends with a strong focus on safety, quality and adherence to cGMP.

The role requires self‑motivation, hands‑on leadership, and effective coordination with vendors and internal teams to resolve escalations and maintain production continuity.

Qualifications

• A 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 with handovers at start and end of shifts.
• Review and approve timecards for PSEs and coordinate WO activities.
• Adhere to training schedules and deliver toolbox talks.
• Support weekly planning meetings and cross‑training within the team.
• Coordinate resources including external contractors and commissioning engineers.
• Maintain cGMP compliance and document activities per regulatory requirements.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Self-motivated

Education

Diploma/Trade qualification in suitable science/engineering

Tools

Instrumentation

Manufacturing equipment

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

We are looking for a Maintenance Shift Supervisor to support the day-to-day maintenance requirements of Manufacturing Operations based at AbbVie, Westport . This position reports to the Associate Director, The Maintenance Shift Supervisor lead and manages a team of engineers and technicians to ensure the continuity and effectiveness of manufacturing. To be successful in this role, you need to be self-motivated and enjoy working with a high level of autonomy.

The successful candidate will work Evening & Nights shifts. or Weekends.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for continuity across shifts, throughout the week, includinghandovers. Typically there will be two hand over meetings, one at the start of the shift (evening hand over) and one at the end of the shift (night handover or weekend handover).
• Responsible for timecard review and approval for all PSEs.
• Ensure adherence to training schedule, delivery of 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, division equipment engineers etc.
• 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.

Qualifications

Diploma/Trade qualification in suitable science/engineering course and/or suitable experience.

• A 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.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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