JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.

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Primary Function

In this senior role, you will be accountable for maintaining and developing the site infrastructure, environmental sustainability while driving reductions in greenhouse emissions, energy use, water use and waste generation. The role provides and maintains the environment for our employees to stay safe and productive.

This is a key role that will require excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills and will interact with all levels of the organisation ensuring competing priorities are managed objectively and in line with the overall business strategy.

Responsibilities

Facilities:
- Manage the provision of hard services (building fabric, roads and landscape, access control, security) and soft services (catering, cleaning to GMP standards).
- Budget planning, control and reporting.
- Establish service contractor agreements, coordinate schedules, and monitor contractor performance & undertake cost analysis for facilities management and project works

Utilities:
- Management of energy supply and distribution (electrical and natural gas supply).
- Management of Utilities plant: CHP units, Steam Boilers, Air Compressors, Refrigeration Plant, HVAC.

Service Governance:
- Ensure that all service providers deliver services to the agreed service level.
- Ensure that Third Party Suppliers, Contractors and Service providers follow EHS and GMP standards.

Education Required

Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Engineering) is required.

Knowledge

10+ years of business working experience in operations / manufacturing environment.
Experience in the management of outsourced services with demonstrated ability to run and lead service providers.
Experience dealing with a large portfolio of plant and equipment.
Familiar with maintenance management programs
Ability to communicate sophisticated business / technical challenges in a simplified manner.
Experience utilizing Lean six sigma principles RCA’s and FMECA’s to identify the root cause of issues and evaluate related underlying issues. Quantify issue’s using 6 sigma tools Pareto and DMAIC
Excellent knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint essential.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English essential.
Familiarity with continuous improvement and project management approaches, tools and phases.
Exceptional ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods.
Highly collaborative work style which includes working successfully across all organisational levels.
Possess strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Must be open-minded and adaptive to change, promote the collective interests of the team more than self-interest, able to resolve problems in a respectful manner

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Engineering

DIVISION:

ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain

LOCATION:

Ireland > Cootehill : Dromore West

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Ie - Chsal39 (Ireland)

TRAVEL:

Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Yes

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable

Facilities & Utilities Maintenance Manager

Job Description