The Company

A global pharma/biologics business with expanding operations here in Ireland are seeking an SME in Quality Control to join their Quality Control department.

The Role

The individual will be accountable for working cross functionally with teams locally and also global teams to generate and maintain the over all plan for each QC Department. They will play a key role in developing improvements in scheduling activities and planning for preventative maintenance stopes, project execution and any new product introductions to the site.

• Convert the site manufacturing plan and planned Projects into a short and long term QC plan, using appropriate new or existing business systems/applications, requiring minimal manual maintenance.
• Provide daily, weekly, and monthly schedules to enable QC to support the Plant production plan.
• Translate requirements for preventative maintenance/calibration activities, project execution and new product introductions into the QC plan.
• Works with QC management to plan and assess capacity, both long and short term, within QC using existing or innovative methods.
• Enhance the QC planning capabilities to implement continuous improvements to further lab capability.
• Lead and participate in cross functional calls as liaison between Manufacturing, Facilities, Process Sciences, QA Validation and other key QC customers.
• Gathers, trends, and analyses planning data.
• Analyse short term and long term forecasts and identify and communicate possible capacity, equipment or material issues to QC Management.
• Facilitate Planning and Scheduling meetings with QC and support functions.
• Create, publish, monitor, and report on QC plans.
• Participate in/ Lead Cross Functional team initiatives when required.
• Assist with the creation of scheduled start-up and shutdown project plans.
• Documents all training and maintaining individuals training file.
• Other relevant duties as deemed required for function as per management instructions.

The Person

• BS/BA in a relevant discipline and 8+ experience in a pharma area with experience in lab operations and or a planning role in a manufacturing or supply chain environment a related area.
• Relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of educational requirement.
• Be an innovator with a strong record in continuous improvement
• Experience in implementing/use of automated solutions for planning purposes.
• Strong ability to influence cross-functionally

For more on this position, please contact Emma Mullen on +353 87 636 9263