Reliability & Facilities Engineer

At Apleona Ireland, we believe a strong culture and fulfilled team is the foundation of our success - built on collaboration, innovation, and empowerment.

We are looking for a Reliability & Facilities Engineer to join our team in a pharma setting in Carrigtowhill , Co Cork

Working pattern: Monday to Friday from 08:00-16:30

Main duties & responsibilities:

• Identify and mitigate equipment reliability risks to prevent facility downtime.
• Develop and optimize preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
• Investigate equipment failures and use tools like FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) to eliminate recurring issues.
• Oversee building utilities, HVAC, power, water, and related systems to maintain safe and compliant working environments.
• Track key indicators like Time Between Failures and Time to Repair, Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Support daily and weekly maintenance planning by identifying risk, repeat work, overdue actions, access requirements, specialist support and critical materials.
• Coach technicians in systematic troubleshooting, accurate fault coding, work-order closeout, evidence capture and reliability-centred thinking.
• Escalate unresolved technical or compliance concerns through the appropriate engineering and client channels.
• Improve CMMS data quality by standardising asset hierarchy, failure codes, work types, priorities, completion notes and closure requirements.
• Ensure new and modified assets are accurately registered in the CMMS with appropriate criticality, maintenance plans, documentation, bills of materials and ownership.
• Work with equipment owners, manufacturing engineering and operations to ensure interventions on production assets are coordinated and aligned with quality and production requirements
• Regular onsite attendance and active engagement in plant areas are essential requirements of the role.
• Flexibility may be required to support critical failures, planned shutdowns, investigations or project activities outside normal working hours.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree, higher diploma or recognized trade qualification with relevant engineering experience in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, maintenance, building services or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering or technical facilities management within a complex of manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical device or similarly regulated environment.
• Strong working knowledge of reliability principles, failure analysis, RCA, FMEA or FMECA, asset criticality and preventive or predictive maintenance strategies.
• Proven ability to extract, validate and interpret CMMS data and convert analysis into practical maintenance and asset improvements.
• Experience with CMMS/ CAFM platforms and Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools is desirable.

Interested to find out more? Please apply below

We look forward to receiving your application!

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