Facilities & Utilities Maintenance Manager

Abbott Laboratories; Cootehill; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company is seeking a senior professional for facilities management in Cootehill. The role involves overseeing site infrastructure, environmental strategies, and managing outsourced services while ensuring safety and productivity. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's in Engineering and over ten years of relevant experience, along with strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in an operations/manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing outsourced services and large portfolios of equipment.
• Familiarity with maintenance management programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage hard and soft services for facilities.
• Oversee energy supply and distribution management.
• Ensure compliance with EHS and GMP standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Communication

Adaptability

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott in Ireland

Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Primary Function

In this senior role, you will be accountable for maintaining and developing the site infrastructure, environmental sustainability while driving reductions in greenhouse emissions, energy use, water use and waste generation. The role provides and maintains the environment for our employees to stay safe and productive.

This is a key role that will require excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills and will interact with all levels of the organisation ensuring competing priorities are managed objectively and in line with the overall business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Facilities:
  • Manage the provision of hard services (building fabric, roads and landscape, access control, security) and soft services (catering, cleaning to GMP standards).
  • Budget planning, control and reporting.
  • Establish service contractor agreements, coordinate schedules, and monitor contractor performance & undertake cost analysis for facilities management and project works

• Utilities:
  • Management of energy supply and distribution (electrical and natural gas supply).
  • Management of Utilities plant: CHP units, Steam Boilers, Air Compressors, Refrigeration Plant, HVAC.

• Service Governance:
  • Ensure that all service providers deliver services to the agreed service level.
  • Ensure that Third Party Suppliers, Contractors and Service providers follow EHS and GMP standards.

Education Required

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Engineering) is required.

Knowledge

• 10+ years of business working experience in operations / manufacturing environment.
• Experience in the management of outsourced services with demonstrated ability to run and lead service providers.
• Experience dealing with a large portfolio of plant and equipment.
• Familiar with maintenance management programs
• Ability to communicate sophisticated business / technical challenges in a simplified manner.
• Experience utilizing Lean six sigma principles RCA’s and FMECA’s to identify the root cause of issues and evaluate related underlying issues. Quantify issue’s using 6 sigma tools Pareto and DMAIC
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint essential.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English essential.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement and project management approaches, tools and phases.
• Exceptional ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods.
• Highly collaborative work style which includes working successfully across all organisational levels.
• Possess strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Must be open-minded and adaptive to change, promote the collective interests of the team more than self-interest, able to resolve problems in a respectful manner