Reliability & Facilities Engineer

Apleona; Carrigtwohill; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Apleona Ireland is seeking a Reliability & Facilities Engineer to join our team at a pharma site in Carrigtowhill, Co Cork. You will identify reliability risks, develop maintenance plans, and work closely with operations to keep the facility compliant and safe.

The role requires hands-on oversight of utilities, HVAC, and production assets, with a focus on data-driven improvement using CMMS, RCA/FMEA, and KPI tracking such as MTBF and OEE.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in engineering with relevant experience.
• Experience in reliability/maintenance engineering in pharma/manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of RCA, FMEA, asset criticality and preventive/predictive maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Identify and mitigate equipment reliability risks to prevent downtime.
• Develop preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Investigate equipment failures and apply RCA/FMEA.
• Oversee building utilities, HVAC, power, water systems to maintain safe environments.
• Track indicators like MTBF, MTTR, OEE.
• Coach technicians in troubleshooting and fault coding.
• Escalate unresolved concerns through engineering and client channels.
• Improve CMMS data quality and asset registration.
• Coordinate interventions with production assets to meet quality requirements.
• Attend onsite and be flexible for after-hours activities.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance engineering

RCA

FMEA

CMMS data analysis

Preventive maintenance

Asset management

Education

Degree or diploma in engineering

Tools

CMMS

CAFM platforms

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Job description

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 Carrigtowhill , Co Cork

Working pattern: Monday to Friday from 08:00-16:30

• 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.