Principal Device Equipment Engineer

Principal Device Equipment Engineer

Apply locations Northern Cross, Dublin, Ireland time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R5653544 McDermott Laboratories Limited

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

- Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
- Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health;
- Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Principal Device Equipment Engineer will be an SME in the management and delivery of equipment, inclusive of specification, procurement, delivery, qualification, and project management of the same.

The successful candidate will lead equipment delivery projects with the suppliers, inclusive of budget management, and ownership for specification through to qualification. The candidate will work in collaboration with cross organisational teams; R&D, CMO, Viatris entities, ensuring delivery to specification and local site requirements.

This is a Global role that is key to the success of GDD’s varied product portfolio delivery and will provide the successful candidate exposure to all aspects of combination device design, development, and production.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how Principal Device Equipment Engineer role will make an impact:

- Develop engineering systems strategy for program delivery. Pilot to scale up, subassembly, final assembly, labelling, packaging, transport, and auxiliary systems. Establishing and maintaining timelines against organization requirements and identify external partners/OEMs to meet internal needs. Lead cross organizational teams with external partners/OEMs, inclusive of but not limited to facilitation of Design for Manufacture activities, Design Review, weekly progress updates, RAID management, throughout program delivery executing against prescriptive program milestones, ensuring adherence to product quality, equipment lifecycle requirements and good engineering practices.
- Lead for engineering systems in cross departmental teams. Manage engineering system objectives in line with program delivery. Supporting the device program team through communication, plan management, technical review and execution, budgetary management, risk assessment, etc.
- Accountable for the process specification, development and realization from product concept to commercialization, liaising with appropriate internal teams to establish process steps and appropriate controls, using good engineering practices. Identification and management risk through established practices, RAID for engineering systems and program delivery.
- Lead development of bespoke manufacturing processes, manufacturing specifications, equipment, manual or benchtop systems, semi and fully automated equipment that meet product performance and quality requirements. Continuous focus on capacity scale up, whilst managing cost requirements.
- Responsible for site integration; establish training needs, transport, site specification, commissioning and qualification activities, product quality, ensuring process performance metrics, development batch record, process, and product (tray, temporary packaging, etc) transfer.
- Lead and facilitate effective program problem solving/discussion at a technical/project level to key stakeholders. Provide solid troubleshooting techniques and methodologies. Leading investigations for manufacturing equipment and processes as they occur in Viatris affiliate’s or CMOs.
- Accurately plan and manage budgetary needs to support program delivery, capital request development and approval, business justification and contract management.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

- Degree in Science/Engineering with 7+ years’ experience in pharmaceutical and/or medical device development or similar role.
- Strong project management experience.
- Enthusiastic, conscientious, highly driven and motivated person.
- Good communication skills and commitment to teamwork are essential.
- Writing technical reports and producing high quality documentation within a regulatory controlled GMP environment.
- Attention to detail in specifications and drawings with a systematic approach to tasks.
- Excellent project management and/or project engineer experience, capable of establishing and maintaining timelines.
- Ability to lead suppliers and affiliate sites to set specifications and manage timelines.
- Ability to work flexibly and communicate complex information across multiple disciplinary teams, and sites, gain team member buy-in, and constructively resolve issues.
- Ability to work independently and proactively to establish own work processes.
- Ability to work on own initiative, prioritize work and manage several projects simultaneously.
- Experience in writing technical specifications and reports.
- Creativity, insight, and attention to detail to apply to the creation and development of reliable mass-produced devices.
- Willingness to travel as necessary.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

- Excellent career progression opportunities
- Work-life balance initiatives
- Bonus scheme
- Health insurance
- Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be.

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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