Lead - Maintenance Planner - Limerick - Eli Lilly and Company

Description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Main Purpose and Objectives of Position:

The Lead-Maintenance Planner is responsible for technically planning, scheduling (where applicable), coordinating and overseeing all aspects of maintenance activities within their area of responsibility. It will be the link between the different workstreams in the area relating to maintenance activities. Sr. Expert Specialist-Maintenance Planner (SM) is the Lilly point of contact for the individual crews assigned to those areas. Lilly has a requirement for people with both electrical and instrumentation (E&I) and mechanical disciplines.

In addition, Sr. Expert Specialist-Maintenance Planner (SM) is responsible for controlling the maintenance work within the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and ensuring activities are carried out, recorded and ready for inspection by external and internal regulatory auditors always.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out in a safe, timely and compliant manner in line with the Lilly LOTO system utilizing TOF.
• Participate in continuous improvement & lean 5S initiatives.
• Be the Point of contact for Safety & Quality related questions from craft.
• Be an advocate for Safety & Quality standards within the maintenance group, promoting and enforcing standards in all work completed.
• Troubleshoot maintenance issues within area of responsibility.
• Own the planning and scheduling (where applicable) of preventive and corrective maintenance activities to ensure that all preventive & corrective maintenance activities are completed as scheduled in GMARS (the CMMS) to meet Maintenance metrics requirements.
• Planning and documenting how work is to be completed.
• Ensuring spare parts are available & liaise with engineering stores.
• Co-ordinate the various craft disciplines and vendors to execute Maintenance activities to the highest standards & per site SOP's.
• Ensure all work is documented appropriately following ALCOA+ principles.
• Updating of job plans to ensure accuracy.
• Schedule, chair & attend meetings to ensure maintenance activities are appropriately scheduled.
• Be the technical adviser for area of responsibility and escalate issues appropriately.
• Flexibility to support other areas within the Maintenance team & participate in Project and best practice initiatives within the Maintenance team.
• Investigate failures and propose solutions to prevent reoccurrence.
• First point of contact for craft personnel to troubleshoot issues/queries on the CMMS.
• Manage craft allocation to respond to changing priorities.

Pre-Requisites:

2+ years pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience in a maintenance role.

B-eng advantageous.

Educational Requirements:

FETAC level 6 or equivalent in either an E&I or mechanical discipline

B-Eng. advantageous.

Key Attributes:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Recent maintenance planning experience is an advantage.
• Any further education in an engineering related discipline is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Pharmaceutical manufacturing processes is an advantage.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to work as part of a team 'Follow the work'
• Ability to respond quickly and proactively to changing priorities.