Facilities Engineer - Co. Waterford

Facilities Engineer - County Waterford.

This position will work one week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the next week Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, with hours of work being from 8am to 8pm.

In this role you will be responsible for co-ordinating maintenance of the factory building and its surrounding premises, production plant service including preventive maintenance and upgrading of facility equipment and electrical services.

Key Responsibilities:
• To act as the point of contact for vendors, contractors, and sales representatives for the plant and facilities works in general
• External Vendors - Seek quotations and oversee any contract works
• Liaise with in-house cleaning contractor to ensure cleaning standards are maintained and service contract requirements met across the whole site.
• Ensure all site and grounds maintenance is completed in line with contract and site expectations
• To maintain the management and presentation of records on all facilities related task / operations to meet auditing requirements for both internal / external auditors, customers, and corporate representatives as requested
• Co-ordinate all site facility activity in conjunction with full implementation and adherence to all EHS dept standards and technical requirements.
• Participate / Lead / Own MMCR, CAPA, PCF, NCE as requested and required to meet QA/Ops site requirements.
• Oversee all key critical plant equipment, by overseeing all third-party inspections and interventions, as well as in-house daily, weekly monthly and annual PM inspections and interventions on the following as per requirements:
- All electrical systems, distribution, and transformers
- Cleanroom AHU both internal and external roof mounted units / Humidifiers
- Coolers / Chillers / Water Supplies / Lighting / Compressed Air Systems, Fire preventative equipment, sprinklers, extinguishers
- Site vacuum systems
- Site life safety programs
• Maintain / Oversee all canteen equipment / office equipment.
• Monitoring and maintenance of cleanrooms and associated building management systems record through the site BMS system.
• Identify non-compliance daily events and take appropriate actions when the BS system is drifting or going out of specification to ensure site cleanroom compliance are maintained for temperature, humidity, fresh air intake and air pressure parameters
• Plan, co-ordinate and ensure all facilities works are compliant with required specification, regulatory requirement, quality of work and safety standards to include GMP / GDP specifications.
• Support and assist the Operations and Engineering Manager with day-to-day activities such as Change controls, NPI introductions / Production ramps / New projects etc.
• Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of facilities operations in terms of performance, cost and efficiency i.e. utility usage and cost control / reduction.
• Day to day maintenance of the facility as required, including breakdown response and repairs to equipment.
• Environmental monitoring and management of pest control.
• Meet all FM Global program requirements – Impairment Notification – Hot Work

Interested applicants should have:
• At least 5 years’ experience in facilities or related role essential.
• In-depth knowledge of plant systems
• Experience of working with a preventative maintenance system.
• Systematic troubleshooting/problem solving skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to work well on own initiative.
• Experience of compressed air, air handling, fire prevention, building management and industrial water systems.
• Ability to read P&ID's/schematics.