Automation Engineering Associate Manager jobs at Boston Scientific in Ireland, Cork

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Key Responsibilities:

• Project/Program Management: Manages key initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing processes; develops and implements project plan; builds team ownership and commitment to project plan.

• Estimates project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope of effort.
• Prepares project plans, schedules and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project.
• Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.
• Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path items while ensuring project quality and utilizing and following appropriate methodologies (e.g. GSM).
• Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies.
• Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.
• Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.
• Consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge.
• Conducts project post mortems and communicates lessons learned in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Participates in external project management organizations, conferences and seminars to keep current with industry best practices in project management by joining professional associations and implementing a professional development plan with focus on project management.

• People Management: Manages medium-sized (occasionally multi-site) cross-functional development teams; leads teams effectively; provides input to functional managers on team and team member performance.
• Site PMO/Project Portfolio management: Oversees development, prioritization, resourcing, and status/tracking of site cross functional programs. Acts as liaison with other functions/sties for projects site is a contributor or stakeholder in.
• Communications and Reviews: Responsible for team and cross-functional communications; liaison between the team and the PIB; leads phase and business reviews, project meeting minutes, issues log, metrics, and other key communications.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Level 8 Qualification required in a relevant discipline.
• Ideally 3/4 years experience in a regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience of leading/working with large scale projects. Responsible for delivering key elements of the project.
• Ability to work with and influence all functions and key stakeholders within the organisation.
• Proven experience of leading a project team.
• Excellent communication skills both internal and external to the organisation.
• Team performer with proven ability to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Works independently within functional / divisional policies, Guides others in resolving and preventing complex problems in specialized area; takes a new perspective on existing solutions or solves problems where precedent does not exist.

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Job Purpose:

Sets direction for and reinforces the importance of Environmental, Health & Safety in the organisation. Manages the overall Environmental, Health & Safety program, including development and implementation of strategies, policies and practices. Works with plant senior management team to integrate Environment, Health & Safety performance into facility operations. Ensures EH&S strategies are are fully aligned with local and global business strategies. Develops opportunities to provide strategic and competitive advantage through cross-functional interaction. Provides leadership to drive continuous improvement in Environment, Health & Safety performance, while assuring comprehensive operational compliance. Delivers consistant EH&S performance that meets or exceeds core metrics.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops, maintains, and reviews the Environmental, Health & Safety programme to ensure compliance with current and future legal, regulatory and corporate requirements.
• Manages regular strategic review of EHS in the organisation and provides appropriate objectives and programmes to improve overall EHS performance and to mitigate against future liabilities.
• Participation in management review meetings to present Environment, Health & Safety performance, discuss upcoming Environment, Health & Safety actions to improve functional performance, and proactively identify and promptly address Environment, Safety & Health issues which may affect operations or may provide strategic advantage to the business.
• Establishes and tracks metrics for assessing EH&S effectiveness in the organisation, including the OSHA Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), the OSHA Lost Worktime Rate (LWR) and ISO 14001 environmental performance goals.
• Develops and executes a plan to reduce worker injury and lost time rates.
• Leads the creation and maintenance of an appropriate EH&S culture through cross-functional cooperation, communications, promotions and training.
• Establishes the priorities and manages the implementation of environmental management programmes.
• Responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the Environmental Management System. (ISO 14001).
• Responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of theSafetyManagement System. (ISO45001).
• Responsible for appropriate procedures, approvals, co-ordination and control of hazardous, regulated and solid wastes.
• Manages all EH&S regulatory reporting requirements.
• Responsible for emergency planning and takes leadership role in EH&S emergency situations. Ensures that adequate evacuation and response arrangements are in place for fire, accidents and all other emergency situations.
• Represents the company on EH&S affairs with relevant external parties ensuring adequate response to all regulatory and legal issues.
• Works in partnership with other Boston Scientific EH&S professionals to establish or adopt company demonstrated best practices relevant to our Industry.
• Is the Site Lead for EH&S Essentials deployment and Essentials Strategic Assessment execution.
• Delivers a strong safety culture programme which promotes responsibility, ownership and behaviour among all employees.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Requires a minimum level 8 qualification in a relevant discipline.

• Experience of working in a manufacturing environment with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience of managing and leading a team of EH&S professionals.
• Experienced in all areas of Health & Safety including maintaining policies, assessing risks, training, audits & inspection, managing incidents and reporting.
• Extensive knowledge of Irish & European EHS Legislation.

• Self motivated, results and solution oriented individual.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with strong leadership abilities.

• Ability to work as part of a team and meet targets/goals efficiently.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience in implementing and sustaining ISO 45001-certified Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems.

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We are seeking an Associate Director of Quality & Qualified Person on a

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the Associate Director of Quality and QP role is to provide quality, and compliance expertise to ensure that all pharmaceutical products manufactured and distributed by the organization meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and regulatory compliance. Key responsibilities include to provide subject matter expertise, provide functional leadership, including allocating and managing department resources to accomplish business objectives, to ensure compliance of quality system activities and objectives, and to interface with external regulatory agencies. This role is essential in overseeing and managing Boston Scientific Cork’s Pharmaceutical Quality Management System (PQS) and ensuring that the products comply with industry regulations. This role will support the site QP and serve as a backup QP to ensure that pharmaceutical products are properly reviewed, and their release is compliant with regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Talent Management: Recruit, coach, and develop organizational talent. Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential.
  • Leadership: Lead the Pharmaceutical Quality team, ensuring team members have the necessary training, skills and knowledge to effectively meet the quality requirements as detailed in regulatory standards, and drive process optimization initiatives. Provide direction and guidance to the wider team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Pharmaceutical Quality System: Act as Pharmaceutical Head of Quality. Applies and leverages a comprehensive knowledge of pharmaceutical quality systems that ensure the highest quality products and compliance with GMP Guidance and regulatory requirements. Review and analyze the effectiveness of the quality system and recommend changes as needed.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure efficient compliance with all applicable regulations through a robust quality system and communication with regulatory authorities. Sets best practices and influences compliance with policies and procedures
  • Operational Management:Ensure that all necessary preparations are made for both internal and external audits and regulatory inspections. Lead audit teams, collaborate with cross-functional teams to address and resolve any observations or deficiencies, ensuring continuous compliance with applicable regulations and quality standards. Responsible for the leadership of the Quality Operations team supporting chemistry based products.
  • Crisis Management: Leads complex analysis of data and decisions regarding quality-related crises in the their area of responsibility.
  • Continuous Improvement: Foster an entrepreneurial environment where individuals identify and bring forward process, policy, and system improvements to the Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS).
  • New Product Introduction (NPI): Collaborate with the NPI team to ensure product designs, formulations, and processes comply with cGMP standards and regulatory expectations.

Education & Experience:

• • Level 8 in Science or Engineering (Level 9 desirable)
  • 10+ years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotech manufacturing, particularly in Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC), or Compliance.
  • 5+ years in a leadership or managerial quality-related role.
  • Strong understanding of cGMP, ICH guidelines, EU GMP Annexes, and FDA/HPRA expectations.
  • Experience with regulatory inspections (e.g., HPRA, FDA).
  • Medical Device manufacturing experience desirable.
  • Established experience in leading and solving complex problems.
  • Experience as QP preferrable.

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Advancing possibilities for a brighter tomorrow

Manages a discreet business unit through Production Team Leaders and Support Teams. Primary job functions include: developing capacity plans; managing financial budgets and setting aggressive department goals that support BSC’s current and future objectives; partnering with Logistics, Engineering, Quality, HR and Finance to optimize business performance; supporting process development endeavours; ensuring and championing department adherence to Quality regulatory and GMP requirements. This position is responsible for directing and co-ordinating all the manufacturing operations for the area of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: a key leader in the value stream, ensuring a team of 200+ produce strong business results and team ethos. Sets stretch goals and ensures strong overall performance.
• Drive for results/ Customer Focus: leads team to ensure a strong focus on execution, to ensure customer needs met, through delivery of a balanced scorecard across safety, quality, service, cost & people. Able to meet targets & deadlines.
• Collaborative relationships: forms strong collaborative relationships with Engineering & Quality Manager peers. Develops strong raporte with local and global customers/ support functions.
• People Management: manages a direct team of Production Supervisors and leads a cross functional team. Fosters strong employee engagement & communication.
• Planning & Prioritisation: plans resources and capacity of value stream to deliver on committed build plans and future growth.
• Coach/ Mentor: coaches & mentors reports to ensure they develop the skills required for their roles, and there is reports to ensure strong succession pipeline in place.
• Diversity & inclusion focuses on developing a culture of diversity & inclusion within value stream teams.
• Financial Acumen: develops an understanding of key financial metrics and levers. Able to manage within budget and develops annual budgets to deliver on strategic plan.
• LEAN/ Innovation: promotes the use of key lean tools such as Daily Accountability, 5S, Continuous Improvement, 6 Step Problem Solving and Communication Huddles. Uses innovative thinking to develop new approaches to issues as required.
• Quality System: ensures strong quality focus from team, in line with Boston Scientific Quality System to ensure patient safety and product/ process compliance.
• Strategic Thinking/ Execution: partners with Engineering & Quality Manager peers to develop and deliver 3 year strategic plan for Value Stream. Supports and leads site and functional strategic initiatives as required.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (HETAC level 8) in a Business/Engineering or other related discipline.
• Ideally 8 + years’ experience in a Leadership role within a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent leadership skills and demonstrated ability to build strategic relationships.
• Results driven with a proven ability to deliver targets and meet deadlines.
• Key Decision Maker and ability to drive innovation and engagement.

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