Process Engineer – Visual Inspection

• Location: Waterford
• Contract Type: Fixed Term

About the Job:

Reporting to the Team Lead, you will play an integral role within the Product Supply Unit’s team, ensuring reliable supply of syringe and vial products to our patients globally.

The Product Supply APU is currently expanding and consists of multiple platforms for the PFS inspection, assembly, labelling, cartoning, of autoinjectors and prefilled syringes and vials. The platforms range from manual processes through to high-speed, high volume automated production lines.

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide process engineering support to the Product Supply APU.
• Support delivery of continuous improvement projects to existing equipment.
• Work closely with various departments, such as MSAT, Technical Development, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain.
• Lead and coordinate elements of an automated inspection project and contribute to process engineering activities related to the development of new and existing manufacturing capacity.
• Utilisation of knowledge gained from existing manufacturing technologies to aid in the development of new technologies with the goal of implementing higher output and yield.
• Ensure safety compliance, providing technical and engineering support for process and equipment failures, identifying, and implementing process and product improvements, supporting qualification of new products/processes, analysing machine performance data, and managing improvement projects within budget and time constraints with a distinct focus on AVI inspection.
• Support new product introductions and capacity expansions, including new vendor selections, maintenance planning, design changes, change controls, OEE improvement, yield improvement, etc.
• Lead systematic technical root cause investigations.
• Support all company safety and quality programs and initiatives.

About you

• Experience in a highly regulated GMP environment.
• Degree in an Engineering discipline.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Strong documentation/protocol generation and execution skills.
• Background in high volume inspection with demonstrated experience.
• Automation experience with vision systems is desirable.

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility.
• Our Waterford site is easily accessible from the M9 and offers excellent facilities including a subsidized restaurant and newly refurbished gym.

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Visas for those who do not already have the right to work in the UK will be considered on a case by case basis according to business needs and resources.

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