Title:

Maintenance Manager

Company:

Ipsen Manufacturing Ireland Ltd

About Ipsen:

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.

Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description:

Lead Reliability. Drive Improvement. Make a Real Impact.

At Ipsen, our manufacturing operations play an important role in delivering medicines to patients around the world.

We're looking for an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance, reliability and asset performance across our Dublin manufacturing site. This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring our manufacturing equipment, critical utilities and site infrastructure operate safely, reliably and efficiently.

Operating within a highly regulated manufacturing environment, you'll lead a skilled maintenance team, drive continuous improvement and play a key role in shaping the future performance of the site.

Why Ipsen?

Join an award-winning manufacturing site where technical expertise, innovation and continuous improvement come together to make a meaningful difference for patients. This is an opportunity to influence site performance, develop people and work with colleagues across the wider Ipsen network.

Your Role

As Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for maintenance strategy, equipment reliability and lifecycle management of site assets, ensuring the site has the capability, systems and technical support required to achieve its operational objectives.

What You'll Do

Lead maintenance and reliability activities across manufacturing equipment, utilities and site infrastructure.
Drive improvements in equipment reliability, uptime and asset performance.
Lead, coach and develop a high-performing maintenance team.
Provide technical leadership for complex maintenance and asset performance challenges.
Develop maintenance strategies, lifecycle asset plans and continuous improvement initiatives.
Ensure maintenance activities are executed safely and in compliance with site quality and EHS standards.
Manage maintenance contractors, service providers and departmental budgets.
Support major shutdown activities, equipment upgrades and asset replacement programmes.

What You'll Bring

Essential

Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or related Engineering discipline.
Significant maintenance leadership experience within pharmaceutical, API, chemical process or other regulated manufacturing environments.
Strong knowledge of maintenance, reliability and asset management principles.
Experience leading technical teams and managing external contractors.
Experience implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programmes.
Strong problem-solving and continuous improvement capability.

Ideally, You'll Also Bring

Experience supporting complex process manufacturing environments.
Knowledge of critical utility systems, refrigeration, automation, instrumentation and calibration systems.
Experience with reliability methodologies such as RCM, FMEA or Root Cause Analysis.
Knowledge of process safety and hazardous manufacturing operations.
Experience supporting asset replacement and capital investment programmes.

Creating Impact Together

This is an opportunity to lead a critical function within a growing manufacturing organisation, improving equipment reliability, asset performance and operational excellence while supporting the delivery of medicines that make a difference to patients' lives.

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