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Contract: 23 Month Fixed Term Contract + full suite of benefits
Location: Raheen Business Park, Limerick
Work Type: On-Site
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Position Overview:
In this role, you will play a critical part in supporting, sustaining, and improving manufacturing processes for the Biomaterials (Simplex bone cement) product line within Stryker’s Limerick manufacturing campus. Operating in a highly regulated, hybrid pharmaceutical and medical device environment, the position requires a strong emphasis on process reliability, structured problem-solving, and strict adherence to GMP, quality, and regulatory standards.
You will provide day-to-day production and cell support while maintaining ownership of manufacturing performance, reliability, and continuous improvement activities. The role involves leading root cause investigations, including high-value batch investigations, and ensuring manufacturing systems remain validated, robust, and capable of consistently delivering high-quality product.
You will work hands-on within the Simplex production area—supporting powder and liquid manufacturing processes—and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across Operations, Quality, Validation, and Maintenance.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Provide specific technical leadership from an engineering perspective.
Own and sustain manufacturing processes within the value streams for Biomaterials products, ensuring product quality, process stability, and regulatory compliance.
Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective to address product and process issues.
Identify and deliver continuous improvement (CI) and cost reduction projects focused on OEE, yield, and scrap reduction, applying Lean, Six Sigma, and statistical techniques.
Ownership of specific cell metrics from an engineering perspective.
Technical and operational support to manufacturing operations
Ensure quality of process and product as defined in appropriate manufacturing specifications.
Ownership of the Manufacturing Loss and Right First-Time metric within the cell.
Structured problem solving.
Continuously improve the performance of the processes within the cell.
Support the optimisation of cell layout.
Provide cross-functional support on the technical development and application within the manufacturing process.
Engage in the implementation of lean manufacturing within the manufacturing cell.
Train and mentor operators and engineers.
Support and/or manage strategic engineering projects through PMO.
Demonstrate measurable and ongoing positive impact on specified cell KPI’s.
Validation, appraisal and support of raw material, consumables, equipment and/or processes.
Support external manufacturing and Supplier Initiated Change Requests.
Support process development and cost reduction activities within the cell.
Communicate and participate in system and process troubleshooting with support team members and with external agents.
Providing development and guidance for assigned Co-op /Technician Engineers, developing and conducting Co-Op /Technician performance appraisals.
Provide leadership to other Manufacturing Engineers and or Technicians as required.
Qualifications Knowledge Skills
Level 8 Degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline.
Proven Project Management skills through the delivery of strategic cell projects.
Has a minimum of 4 + years’ experience in a manufacturing environment or relevant industry experience.
Strong communication and influencing skills with both internal and external agents.
General understanding of machine safety and CE certification is desirable.
Capable of providing technical leadership and influencing and providing technical direction to engineers, Co-op students, technicians and operators as required.
Capable of working as part of a multi-disciplined team in an aggressive, dynamic and results-oriented environment.
General understanding of GAMP software categories and CSV principles is desirable.
Demonstrable strong analytical & problem-solving skills, a process improvement orientation, and the ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent presentation and written/verbal communication skills.
Demonstrable ability to work autonomously.
A team player, with a flexible approach.
Technological expert, willing to source, investigate and specify technological and automation advances.
Confident and effective decision maker, with a proven technical leadership ability to negotiate and influence others.
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