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Month: December 2014
Facilities Manager – Tandem
Facilities Manager
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Responsibilities:
- Set strategy and direction for the maintenance and engineering functions to ensure on going value is added to meet business needs. Ensure actions include medium and long term strategies.
- Provide technical expert support to Production in all aspects of machine and equipment maintenance, installation and modification.
- Develop production maintenance plans, manage and design programs, and manage all phases of projects.
- Effectively manage the finances of the maintenance and engineering functions to contain cost.
- Reduce maintenance costs and improve the overall equipment effectiveness by driving Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
- Manage the modifications of improvements to existing equipment, processes utilities, and facilities to reduce cost or improve efficiency and comply with cGMP.
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree or higher preferred; ideally in a related Engineering discipline
- Significant experience in a comparable role; would typically have experience leading and setting direction for a department and adding significant value to the business; ideally in a manufacturing, preferably GMP setting
- Knowledge of cGMP and GDP preferred
Technical Support Engineer – Arcatech Limited
Job Title – Technical Support Engineer
Status – Full-time – 37.5 Hrs/wk
Location – Lisburn City (With an amount of foreign travel)
General Role – To work as an integral member of the engineering team resolving technical problems for customers and distributors to provide pre-sales advice to customers
Salary – £ 14,000 – £ 25,000 per year Depending on experience
Responsibilities
Communication
- Communication with customers/distributors to resolve problems, answer or provide advice to questions, etc. The most common mode of communication will be telephone/email/fax.
- Updates to customers/distributors concerning ongoing issues.
- Communication with sales team in reaction to issues concerning their customers/distributors.
- Communication with the engineering team regarding relevant ongoing issues.
- Communication with production regarding ongoing repairs and issues.
- Follow-up analysis with customers/distributors to determine the satisfaction level of the support provided.
- Attend daily meetings with engineering team to report status of ongoing issues.
Testing
- Setting up test situations to simulate a specific scenario reported by a customer/distributor
- Verification of faults on returned units & initial analysis as to where the problem may be Database & Analysis
- Recording of information on the technical support database
- Analysis of information on the technical support database
- Analysis of protocol analyser traces
- Analysis of internal diagnostics traces
Training
- Personal training with respect to existing\new product technologies
- Training of distributors with respect to the functionality of arca products Software
- Software generation and shipment to customers by means of email/courier
General
- Assembling systems for shipment
- Any other tasks required by the management
Apply via this link.
JUNIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER
DESCRIPTION
Junior Mechanical Engineer is required by CareerWise Recruitment for our client based in Kildare. Contact Fearghal Keane on 061 365969 for more information
THE ROLE:
* Fast paced role managing projects, cad drawings, engineering works, machine specs etc
REQUIREMENTS:
* Qualified candidate from an engineering backgroundideally mechanical engineering course
* Junior role but we do require experience
* Must have experience working in a Manufacturing environment
CareerWise Recruitment accepts that you do not wish your CV to be forwarded to any client company without your prior consent and gives an absolute assurance that this wish will be respected at all times.
Contact Fearghal Keane on 061 365969
for more information
Or apply on line on link below
- Kildare / Kilkenny / Dublin
- 25000 – 35000
- Permanent full-time
- Updated 07/12/2014
- Fearghal Keane
CareerWise Recruitment
Apply via this link.
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Specialists in the recruitment of Senior Management, Commercial, Technical/Engineering, Supply Chain & IT personnel
Supporting Business Demands & Growth since 1999
ADVANCED QUALITY ENGINEER
- Cork
- Negotiable
- Permanent full-time
- Updated 08/12/2014
- Eileen Nyhan
DESCRIPTION
If you have worked as a Mechanical/Quality Engineer in a medical device company please consider this permanent position.
Advanced Quality Engineer
Leads the development and introduction of quality systems to support the Research, Development and Introduction of new Products, Processes and Technologies.
Has responsibility for quality engineering oversight, quality systems implementation including test and inspection plans and product reliability during product development, verification, validation and design transfer whilst ensuring compliance to FDA Quality System Regulations and ISO 13485.
- Lead the implementation of quality systems and work closely with Design, Quality and Manufacturing Engineering personnel on product and process design during the development and introduction of new products and technologies.
- Ensure that customer requirements are incorporated into product functional specifications and lead risk and failure analysis (FMECA/PFMEA) to ensure functional specification requirements are fully met during design validation.
- Working from the design input requirements, functional specifications and risk analysis, develop necessary confidence levels and derive the resulting product and process validation and test plan. Interpret test results to predict product reliability.
- Provide process validation support both internally and with vendors. Technically understand the process in question, develop and provide input to process validation protocols, coordinate inspections and analyze the results. Ensure agreement on inspection techniques, equipment and acceptance criteria. Work with the Project Team to achieve a robust validated process.
- Lead the development of incoming attribute charts, in-process inspection procedures and final inspection plans. Minimise inspection costs while maintaining integrity and reliability of the product.
- Design and implement new inspection technology, metrology equipment, functional gauges and fixtures to facilitate development, incoming and in-process inspection.
- Will apply world class techniques (Six Sigma, Anova, Taguchi, SPC, Gauge R&R etc.) to ensure the development of robust, predictive quality systems which are easily transferable and maintainable in a production environment.
- Has the authority to order the cessation of all activities in relation to design and process validation and new product introduction. Also has the authority to order recommencement of these activities provided he/she is satisfied that all issues affecting product safety and efficacy have been addressed.
- Will develop supplier quality systems related to new product development and ensure their ability to deliver new products and components right first time. Will assist vendors in the resolving quality issues in relation to:
· Audit findings
· Technical specifications · Process validation
· Problem solving
· Development of sampling plans · Inspection techniques - Coordinate the day-to-day inspection support for validation requirements and ensure
completion of inspection requirements to ensure timely completion of project
timelines. - Ensure the efficient and timely transfer of Quality systems knowledge to unit quality
engineers and coordinate the training of quality engineers and quality technicians on new quality systems and equipment. - Ensure all appropriatedocumentation is in place prior to production start
- Lead the resolution, analysis, problem solving and resolution of new product related
customer complaints. - Act as statistics expert for capability studies.
- Teach statistical analysis and design of experiments techniques internally and externally across all functions.
Skills and Education Required:
- Must be able toplan, organize, and implement multiple concurrent tasks and projects.
- Must be able toroutinely make decisions which effect immediate operations.
- Must be able toread and interpret complex engineering drawings and have a good understandingof geometrical dimensioning and tolerance.
- Must be able togenerate, follow and explain detailed proposals and operating procedures (i.e. assembly instructions, inspectionprocedures, capital proposals).
- Must be able toanalyze and correct complex product and/or process issues using independentjudgement.
- BachelorEngineering Degree (Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering,Electrical Engineering or Materials Science or equivalent).
- Good computerskills (word processing, spreadsheets, data base).
- Workingknowledge of CAD/CAM/CAE computer systems is desirable.
- 3-5 Yearsrelated Quality Engineering experience in an R&D or manufacturingenvironment.
- Excellent analyticalskills and promotes a problem solving work style.
- Excellentinterpersonal communications skills.
- Demonstratedability to operate small hand tool, inspection equipment.
- Demonstratedmechanical and/or electrical problem solving skills.
Please note that we will consider candidates with 2+yrs experience ideally in Quality or Engineering.
Please apply in confidence to this ad.
Recruiter: Eileen Nyhan
SITE ENGINEER
COFFEY GROUP
- Moanbaun, Athenry, Co. Galway
- (091) 844356
- http://www.coffeygroup.com
- Louth / Cavan / Monaghan
- Not disclosed
- Permanent full-time
- Updated 05/12/2014
- HR
DESCRIPTION
Site Engineer – Permanent
Details
Position: Graduate/Site Engineer (x 5)
Salary: Competitive
Location: North East Region
Background
Irish Water appointed Coffey Northumbrian Ltd as one of the regional contractors to manage the Domestic Water Meter Installation Programme. This programme began in August 2013 and will see over 1 million meters installed nationwide by the end of 2016.
As one of the chosen regional contractors, Coffey Northumbrian Ltd are responsible for managing the recruitment of suitable staff to meet the programme targets, as well as managing the installation of the meters themselves.
Key functions
The main function associated with the post is to provide support to the installation crew across the North East Region.
Main duties
- Co ordination of works from scheduling team to site
- Ensure works are carried out in line with approved method statement
- Assist supervisors with the monitoring and controlling of site activities
- Carry out quality assurance and control
- Record works as executed
Education and key skills
- The successful candidate should hold a Level 8 Honours degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline
- IT savvy with Microsoft Excel and Word skills
- Safe Pass and First Aid preferable
Additional requirements
- Full clean drivers license
- Own vehicle
Training and development
- Initial induction training
- On-the-job training including use of IT hardware and software, project workflows, health and safety, quality and environmental standards and processes
Industry Representatives Confirm Growth
Industry representatives confirm growth in demand for construction management professionals.
Representatives from JJ Rahtigan Ltd, Shay Murtagh Ltd, CIF and the PM Group at a meeting in AIT School of Engineering confirm that they were currently looking for construction management graduates. The group represented a board spectrum of the construction industry. There are growing concerns that skills shortages of specific experienced professionals will become a challenge in the context of return to growth. In order to restore activity to sustainable levels a number of challenges will need to addressed. This confirmed a recent report from Forfás. Full report here.
http://www.hea.ie/sites/default/files/springboard_2015_preliminary_guidance-21nov_0.pdf
Skills shortage ‘gets overplayed’
Laing O’Rourke chairman Ray O’Rourke has told Construction News that exploiting new technologies will improve productivity and make the industry more attractive to “bright young people”.
Mr O’Rourke said construction was not attractive to “bright young people who go to university” and that productivity in the industry was “woefully poor”.
He said the industry had an opportunity to work with the engineering, automotive and aerospace industries to improve productivity and create an environment that intelligent young people want to join.
Mr O’Rourke, who has led Laing O’Rourke’s investment into offsite manufacturing at its Explore facility in Steetley, said he believed construction would “transition from trades to technicians”.
He said: “Before I finish, I hope to see a day when people will go to work, and they’ll be working with the equivalent of a lab coat and they’ll be assembling stuff that has been manufactured to very high quality. I think that’s the future.”
The Laing O’Rourke chairman said it remained “very difficult to convince [young people] that our industry is the best place to be” but that the skills shortage “sometimes gets overplayed” and he did not “worry that jobs won’t get finished” due to a lack of skilled resource.
Mr O’Rourke said he had “never seen such a bow wave of opportunities” as were currently in the UK and described the business opportunities as “extraordinary”.
He was speaking to Construction News during a briefing on construction and infrastructure opportunities in Australia, hosted by HSBC bank.
The Australian government intends to spend AUD 125bn (£67.4bn) on new infrastructure from 2015 to 2020, equal to around 8 per cent of GDP, with a focus on roads and rail (see box).
Laing O’Rourke has been operating in Australia for 10 years and the region accounted for around 40 per cent of its turnover in 2013.
Mr O’Rourke said there was a “massive opportunity” to “exploit technology” the contractor is developing in the UK to cut the cost of construction and delivery times in Australia, which he said were very high due to a “fly-in, fly-out-mode” of materials and staff there.
Asked whether Laing O’Rourke would invest in prefabrication facilities in Australia similar to its Explore park in the UK, Mr O’Rourke told Construction News it “might export some of the stuff manufactured [in the UK] into some of the large projects that are scheduled” in Australia.
Mr O’Rourke welcomed the Australian government’s planned investment in infrastructure, but said he expected Laing O’Rourke’s growth in Australia to “flat line” from 2014 onwards, due to the decline of the oil, gas and mining sectors.
He said the construction industry in Australia was “very well catered for” by domestic contractors, but added that there would be an opportunity for others to enter the market with “some consolidation that’s likely to happen”.
British consul general and director general for UK Trade and Investment in Australia and New Zealand Nick McInnes said procurement for Pacific Highway upgrades, worth more than AUD 5bn, was being modelled on Olympic Delivery Authority tenders, which he said could give British contractors an “inside edge”.
HSBC head of large corporate banking UK added that Australia was a “fantastic hub for companies that are looking to develop in Asia and want to use Australia as a stepping stone for that, a low-risk option and providing joint venture opportunities”.
Laing O’Rourke entered Australia in 2004, before acquiring Australian firm Barclay Mowlem in 2006.
Mr O’Rourke said one of the reasons his company expanded into Australia in 2004 was that it “wanted to provide a platform for some of the great resource we had from Australia that was working [in the UK]”.
Now, he said it supported recruitment and was “a wonderful opportunity to give to young people who you’re trying to inspire to come into our industry to travel the world” while working for the company.
2 December, 2014 | By Lucy Mair
Graduate Engineer
This is a full time position for a year as Graduate Engineering with the view of a permanent position within the company thereafter for the role of Engineer in 2016
Requirements:
Relevant third level engineering qualification, ideally to degree level in Manufacturing / Mechanical Engineering / Process engineering degree essential.
Must have a least 2 years in similar role, demonstrate experience of preparing and reviewing technical submissions, good communication, organisational and negotiation skills, CAD skills, excellent management control on all projects, Experience in metal fabrication an advantage
Location:
Spectac International, Dundalk, Co Louth
Apply: with a cover letter and CV tosales@spectac.ie
(interviews to commence straight away and candidate to be awarded position before Christmas for start date of 12/01/15)
Graduate Role at Hewlett Packard for IT Engineer/Developer
As a graduate member of the Enterprise Group IT team, you will be responsible for working within HP’s enterprise. This includes traditional relational databases and emerging data services, and developing on Cloud technologies.
As part of this worldwide team, you will have three main areas of focus:
1. Operational Innovation: Identification and development of automation and innovative solutions that solve class issues, improve the quality of the environment, and/or drive work out of the system.
2. Proactive Management: Ownership of enterprise systems application development. This includes both taking action before any potential issues arise and/or developing processes that detect early indicators of issues. Further, working within development teams to remediate code issues that cause problems.
3. Production Operations: Management of production systems via dashboards and monitors. Participate (and lead) escalations that drive timely restoration of service.
Responsibilities:
– Participates as a member of the Enterprise Group IT application development and support teams
– 3 main areas of focus as described above (see “description”)
– Drive both technical and process solutions based on business demands
– Ensure availability and performance of systems are optimal
– Works with development teams to design and deploy best in class solutions
Lead and drive necessary solutions – work across teams and organizations as required to drive necessary results
Qualifications
Qualifications
Education and Experience Required:
· Technical or mathematical Bachelor’s degree (e.g. Computer Science, Statistics); minimum 2:1 or above.
· Not more than 12 months relevant experience.
· As a graduate hire, in depth knowledge in any particular area of specialization is not expected.
· Demonstrable knowledge of computer science fundamentals and concepts is imperative.
Knowledge and Skills Required:
– Strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, operating systems, database systems, object oriented systems & design
– Strong mathematical and statistical background, including the ability to create predictive models and correlations
– Strong verbal and written communication skills
– Basic understanding of Cloud Computing paradigms and Patterns
– Solid understanding of Web Services Standards, Frameworks and Patterns
– Understanding of software frameworks such as J2EE and .NET is a plus
– Some experience in writing code using modern software languages (C#, Java, C/C++. .NET) — Work on large scale projects with multiple developers is a plus.
– Solid understanding of relational data modeling and database system (RDBMS) design
– Basic understanding of database administration and experience with modern databases (SQL Server, Oracle)
– Process and detail oriented
To apply please email your CV to:
https://hp.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1344555
For more information on the role contact Maiya Nikolova mnikolova@hp.com
Closing Date: 10/12/14
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