Senior IT/OT Automation Lead - Onsite Athlone

eir business talent; Roscommon; On-site; EUR 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in Athlone

Long-term contract

Job summary

eir business talent in Athlone seeks a Senior IT/OT Automation Engineer to lead the planning and delivery of complex IT/OT projects across enterprise IT systems and plant networks. The role emphasizes work package ownership, cross-functional coordination, and delivering safe, compliant outcomes with cybersecurity and quality embedded.

The ideal candidate will mentor junior engineers, drive governance, and oversee procurement, testing, commissioning, and handover activities in a fully on-site

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering IT/OT projects, including cross-disciplinary interfaces.
• Knowledge of governance, controls, reporting, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing stakeholders across technical, quality, operational, vendor and leadership groups.
• Familiarity with Pharma lifecycle processes, FDA-regulated environments, GAMP, change management and commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of significant IT/OT projects from initiation through handover.
• Coordinate across engineering, operations, IT security, vendors, and system integrators.
• Lead requirements gathering and design oversight for OT systems (PLC/SCADA/DCS, historian, MES, OT networking).
• Ensure safety, cybersecurity, quality, and compliance throughout delivery.
• Manage procurement, SOWs, milestones, and escalation of delivery risks.
• Lead FAT/SAT, UAT, documentation, training, and handover to support teams.
• Run governance routines with steering committees and risk reviews.
• Mentor Automation engineers and provide technical guidance.

Skills

IT/OT project delivery

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Documentation

Problem solving

Independent work

Tools

Siemens PLC/SCADA

Schneider PLC/SCADA

Ignition

Aveva PI

ThinManager

PAS-X

Job description

eir business talent in Athlone seeks a Senior IT/OT Automation Engineer to lead the planning and delivery of complex IT/OT projects across enterprise IT systems and plant networks. The role emphasizes work package ownership, cross-functional coordination, and delivering safe, compliant outcomes with cybersecurity and quality embedded.

The ideal candidate will mentor junior engineers, drive governance, and oversee procurement, testing, commissioning, and handover activities in a fully on-site