Utility Engineering Front Line Leader

Abbott; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Ireland is seeking a knowledgeable Utility Co-Ordinator to manage maintenance excellence and reliability across site utilities. The role involves coordinating programs for gas boilers, CHPs, water treatment, effluent, air compressors, nitrogen generation, and energy consumption while ensuring GMP/EHS compliance and up-to-date SOPs.

You will gather and analyze performance data using systems like Maximo and BMS, drive cost containment, and support new facility maintenance strategies.

Qualifications

• The Utility Co-Ordinator applies scientific and engineering knowledge to maintenance excellence and reliability.
• Involves lifecycle management of capital assets from design to decommissioning.
• Independently gathers maintenance and manufacturing performance data (Maximo, EFT, Osi, BMS) and reports findings.
• Ensures adherence to SOPs and updates procedures as needed.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and monitors activities within Maintenance/Utility Excellence programs.
• Estimates resources (materials, budget, time) to accomplish tasks.
• Supports start-up of new facilities in developing maintenance strategy.
• Provides root-cause analysis for equipment downtime and cost reductions.

Tools

Maximo

EFT

OSI

BMS

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has maintained a strong presence in Ireland since 1946 and celebrates its 80th anniversary in the country in 2026. The company supports the Irish healthcare sector with a broad portfolio spanning diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. Today, Abbott employs more than 6,500 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland Nutrition Division Cootehill Cavan

Abbott Nutrition produces a range of infant formulae in all pack sizes under the brand name "Similac". To complement the range of "Similac" infant formulae, the facility also manufactures a range of follow on formulae under the brand name of "Gain". The essential ingredient is liquid skim milk and this is combined with carbohydrate, vegetable oils, vitamins and minerals. The product is blended, pasteurised, dried and packaged at the site and once packaged, is distributed to Europe, South East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Canada.

Established in 1975, Abbott Nutrition in Ireland is the largest powder manufacturing facility for the production of infant formulae within the Abbott Corporation worldwide. Approximately 1,000 dairy farms in Ireland and Northern Ireland supply quality milk to the Cootehill facility which processes 500,000 litres per day. This secure supply together with Ireland's reputation as a green, clean environment is of significant strategic importance to Abbott Nutrition.

*Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical practitioner designated by the Company.

Primary Function / Goals / Objectives

The Utility Co-Ordinator will be responsible for applying scientific knowledge, engineering knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to maintenance excellence and reliability.

This position is involved in the overall lifecycle of capital assets (designing, delivering, operating, maintaining, and decommissioning) in the most productive and cost-effective manner.

Technical area's of coverage to include all site serviced utilities

• Gas boilers
• CHP's
• Low pressure hot water pumps
• Water treatment
• Effluent
• Air compressors
• Nitrogen generation
• Gas and electric consumption
• Refrigeration

This Job function will change where update procedures to GMP, EHS, Technical / New Equipment, Quality Procedures & SOP's are made.

The Utility Co-Ordinator is responsible for consulting any SOP's for any job task he/she may carry out and ensure they fully understand and adhere to the SOP.

This list of responsibilities may change depending on plant needs and employees are expected to be adaptable and flexible where this need arises.

Major Responsibilities

Project Management

• Coordinates and monitors activities within the Maintenance/Utility Excellence programs. Reviews plans and monitors status of implementation for those people assigned to effort; participates in site assessments.
• Estimates and coordinates resources needed (materials, budget, time and people) to accomplish assigned individual tasks.
• Participates in economic analysis and feasibility studies. Jointly responsible for achieving financial targets in support of business objectives.
• Supports the start-up of new facilities in the development of their maintenance strategy.

Technical / Design

• Independently gathers maintenance and manufacturing performance data (Maximo, EFT, Osi, BMS etc.), and performs preliminary analysis. Reports findings. Prepares and communicates recommendations and respective action plans to drive cost containment and cost reduction efforts.
• Assists with deployment of predictive and reliability centred maintenance strategies.

Problem Solving:

• Provide a centralized, strategic look across equipment performance (downtime), material/component failure analysis.
• Predicts patterns/trends. Grasps complexities and sees relationships among data; determines consequences and alternatives; makes recommendations; analyses problems from multiple perspectives.
• Improves maintenance processes. Recognizes and implements process improvements and cost reductions; creatively applies others' ideas. Leads root cause analysis for equipment downtime.

Organisational Interface

• Mentors others by sharing information and providing feedback and guidance.
• Prepares written communication. Conveys information effectively through formal and informal documents with t