Link Personnel are looking for an Engineering Manager!

Our client, a leading medical manufacturing company located in North Dublin is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager. The successful applicant will act as a leader within the engineering team in providing comprehensive support to production in the manufacturing and continuous development of complex medical diagnostic laboratory instrumentation.

The Role:

• Provide technical support to production for medical devices.
• Develop & sustain world class manufacturing and supply chain processes.
• Responsible for day to day management of manufacturing engineering ensuring KPI’s are trending positively and proactively ensuring no missed outputs while delivering CI.
• Requires an ability to analyze deep technical problems to root cause with a structured approach and develop solutions across different technologies
• Act as a source of technical reference and key decision maker in technology or process area.
• Define and lead technology transfer initiatives, lead design of product enhancements and validation of design changes.
• Participate in new product developments by providing design for manufacture guidance in alignment with Lean and 6 sigma manufacturing techniques.
• Must have excellent people management skills to lead a team of Engineers.
• Lead the team to design solutions for products and process across different disciplines (mechanical, electronic, electrical, or software).
• Have excellent knowledge of verification & validation related to design and process changes. Understand boundary and robustness testing to verify electromechanical and software solutions.
• Manage a complex work scope and provide comprehensive reporting to the business level product teams on key technical initiatives.
• Manage a budget, CAPEX, OPEX to complete the assigned work scope.
• Medium level of statistics knowledge to understand process control and sampling rationale.
• Manage product and component redesign initiatives in response to obsolescence, enhancement, reliability or design to cost initiatives in a regulated environment.
• Hire and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides ongoing performance feedback.
• Develops strategy for implementation of continuous improvement methodologies to increase quality and efficiency of product and process operations.

Qualifications/Skills/Experience for this role:

• Strong leadership skills.
• Requires highly developed leadership skills/experience sufficient to assume the responsibilities of this management position, including the ability to develop, monitor and live within budgets as well as the demonstrated ability to forecast major milestones.
• Experience implementing engineer changes in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong organizational, planning, and follow-up skills and ability to hold others accountable.
• Experience in modern world class manufacturing disciplines (lean, six sigma, DOE, JIT)  required.
• Strong Mechanical/ Electro mechanical / systems design skills for both product and manufacturing  fixtures.
• Must be able to manage and resolve conflicting product and project requirements.
• Knowledge and experience with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)/ISO, and mfg. automation.
• Advanced verbal and written analytical/problem solving, communication, negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills are essential.
• Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline (electrical, electronic, mechanical, systems or computer science) with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience across different technologies in a manufacturing engineering environment that has experience of Design changes, NPI and technology transfers.
• Previous experience in medical devices industry would be an advantage.