Job Description

Operations Readiness Lead

Pharmaceutical

Long Term Contract - Limerick

NIRAS are a specialist engineering consultancy; focussed on the design and delivery of advanced, process engineering driven projects, providing Project Management, Engineering Design, Project and Managed Service resources to the Pharmaceutical, Brewing, Distilling, Food & Beverage Manufacturing industries across Ireland and internationally. One of Europe's largest consulting firms NIRAS employs over 3000 permanent staff and over 25,000 experts across our network including its 4 offices in Ireland and 51 offices in 32 countries across the globe.

Role

Due to a major pharmaceutical site expansion project and internal progression, NIRAS requires an experienced Operation Readiness Lead to support one of our pharmaceutical clients in the expansion of their advanced manufacturing facility in Limerick and providing additional support to associated supporting expansion workstreams through the startup phase to a state of operational readiness.

Opportunity

The Operations Readiness Lead plays a key role in ensuring the development of a comprehensive, coherent and integrated expansion project plan and its successful management and will work side by side with site functional workstreams leaders & Project Managers associated with Project Delivery, reporting through site operations with a strong focus on integration of multiple project workstream deliverables.

The Operations Readiness Lead will ensure clear structured communications between client project team, Ops, TSMS, QA, QCL, Maintenance, Logistics, IT, Auto, understand and work through complex linkages related to overall project scope aiming for, right first time facility start-up and successful Process Validation.

Responsibilities:

Be a key interface point between the client project and end users to ensure the right priorities are communicated & understood across multiple stakeholders

Forecasting resource needs across the integrated plan and anticipating and resolving any projected resource issues before they impact project delivery

Leading a cross functional team, creating and implementing an integrated plan.

With input from all cross functional stakeholders, identify all the relevant pre manufacturing program elements necessary to be in place to support overall facility operational readiness

Work with clients project team and site functional representatives to develop an integrated start up plan reflective of key linkages, interdependencies, durations, resource requirements etc.

Partnering with relevant stakeholders to ensure clear scope alignment and resulting goals and timelines for the project are met.

Facilitate decision making within the team under tight deadlines.

Effectively communicating and managing internal and external stakeholders.

Proactively managing issues, proposing and implementing plans to resolve as needed.

Provide relevant metrics to appropriate Governance Forums.

Requirements

Hons Degree or Higher preferably in Engineering or Scientific field.

5+ years Large Scale Capital Project Deliveries experience highly desirable

Demonstrated project management and delivery of medium to large cross-functional initiatives.

Demonstrated ability to input and influence decision making for complex technical issues

Demonstrated ability to manage in a dynamic environment.

Flexibility to adjust quickly and effectively to frequent change and altered priorities.

Excellent self-management/organizational skills; manage workload, set team priorities and adjust.

Ability to interact with multiple functions - Technical Services, Engineering, Quality, QC, IT, Operations and combine work streams into an integrated schedule.

Demonstrated ability to influence peers and business partners.

Demonstrated strong communication skills.

Demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize issues, develop and implement solutions.

High learning agility and flexibility & ability to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty.

Demonstrated ability to establish key relationships with internal and external contacts.

Demonstrated ability to understand/influence integration points with business areas/functions

Strong interpersonal and team building skills; able to develop effective teamwork between team members with diverse interpersonal styles.

What To Do Next:

If you are an ambitious Operations Readiness Lead, searching for new and exciting projects that will challenge you and expand your engineering knowledge, we encourage you to apply and come join us at NIRAS.

For a confidential discussion regarding this and our many other exciting opportunities, please contact Philip Cahill at (phone number removed)