Manufacturing IT Engineer

Our client is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on serving patients and families affected by rare diseases and devastating conditions through the discovery, development and commercialization of life-changing medicines.
Our client has a large-scale biologics manufacturing facility, is also used to house packaging and testing operations in support of their Global Manufacturing network both in Dublin and Athlone.

The Manufacturing IT Engineer has the technical responsibility for the support and preventative maintenance of Manufacturing IT systems, including physical & virtual servers, manufacturing workstations and IT hardware.

As a contract, the position offers excellent rates and the opportunity for a long term placement.

Responsibilities 

• Provide real-time front line support to the production group on their manufacturing IT systems.
• Periodically applying approved patches using centralised patch management tools.
• System Readiness Testing of production systems prior to handback for commercial manufacturing.
• Building & Administration of Manufacturing Servers and client.
• Attend regular team meetings to inform stakeholders of progress.
• Reporting of progress to system owners and the wider IS/Automation team.
• Regularly liaise with stakeholders to ensure effective communication on outages.
• Adherence to GXP procedures on site in relation to all aspects of the position.

Qualifications Required 

• Third level qualification in IT, Electrical, Electronic, Systems Engineering, Computer Science or Equivalent.
• Min 2 years’ experience working with automation or IT systems preferably in the Life Sciences/ Pharma sector.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with Automation/DCS Systems such as Delta V aswell as virtual infrastructure such as VMware ESX & Hyper V an advantage.
• Experience in managing system IT infrastructure also an advantage.