Company Description
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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.
Job Description
We are looking for a Maintenance Excellence Planner to join our engineer team in Westport. This position report to the Associate Director, B1 Maintenance. The successful candidate will join a busy engineering and maintenance team and facilitate the smooth and efficient operation of the engineering function by assisting our engineering personnel to meet the demands of the business and production targets. You will support maintenance excellence by planning engineering activities using the company's computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and the facilities helpdesk.
- Lead and execute the Maintenance Planning program of site equipment and utilities.
- Support the plant support engineers with planning and preparing for the equipment maintenance to be performed by having the necessary tools, materials and EHS related permits needed.
- Implement programs and procedures required to ensure plant maintenance is performed in a compliant manner.
- Monitor the operation of plant equipment and systems.
- Maintain a maintenance management system for tracking work orders, spare parts, and maintenance history of plant equipment.
- Track, analyse and improve key Maintenance Excellence Program (MEP) key performance indicators (KPI’s) parameters such as asset utilization, maintenance cost, site maintenance compliance, schedule etc.
- Monitor sufficient inventories of spare parts and maintenance supplies, and initiate reordering when necessary.
- Ensure adherence to company safety standards, policies and procedures.
- Proficient in the use of Computer Management Maintenance system (Maximo).
- Manage the purchasing for the department to reduce costs and add value.
- Manage the Engineering Change Control process to ensure there are no non-conformances relating to engineering change control.
- Build and maintain strong partnership with the EHS function to ensure both the safety of staff and contractors is seen as paramount on site.
- Participate constructively as a member of the dept, keeping everyone informed and proactively share knowledge and expertise within the team.
- Continuously review the maintenance schedules and liaise with the engineering team to update regularly.
- Optimize spares holding to effective levels by carrying out cycle counts and ordering and issuing parts when required.
- Purchasing and receiving of engineering parts and orders.
- Demonstrate commitment towards achieving department targets.
- Perform internal audits on engineering systems, support external audits.
- Collaborate with the Reliability team by reviewing the demand-based maintenance and implement improvements to improve equipment uptime
- Generate purchase requisitions for the department through the Maximo and Fiori system
- Management of the maintenance technicians’ hours on Time Management System (annual leave for cover, work time onsite versus logged time on Maximo).
- Aid in planning shutdown activities across the business unit
Qualifications
- A third level qualification in Engineering or a relevant subject area/Trade qualification with six plus years engineering experience
- 3rd level qualification must be coupled with 2 years relevant work experience.
- Strong IT Skills are required for this position (experience with CMMS management system, Cognos, Maximo, Power Bi, OSI Pi would be desirable)
- Proven problem solving skills with the ability to complete detailed evaluation of a number of viable solutions to each problem.
- High level of attention to detail and mental concentration, to ensure accuracy and total compliance with procedures at all times.
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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