Director of Engineering

Position: Director of Manufacturing Engineering

Location: Limerick

Contract: Full Time/Permanent

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Job Position Summary

This role is reporting directly to the Sr.

Director, Vision Care Manufacturing Engineering who leads the global Engineering function.

You will provide strategic and technical leadership and tactical direction to the diverse and hardworking team of Engineers, Technicians and Project Managers focused on driving and delivering a sustainable competitive advantage and operational excellence in safety, quality, delivery and cost at the Contact Lens for the Ireland site.

Holding a critical leadership position at the Limerick site and within the overall Vision Care business, this role will be to advise and control the activities of the Automation & Controls, Manufacturing Engineering, Injection Molding and Capital Project Management Office (PMO) functions in developing and deploying technical solutions on highly automated production equipment and processes demonstrating innovative, state of the art technologies such as 3-D printing, robotics and vision systems!

In addition to crafting the strategic direction and conceptual roadmap for the Limerick launch and production site and Manufacturing Engineering network, you will lead and supervise innovative change across all manufacturing assets through both equipment upgrades as well as automation, robotics, IIOT, and other innovative Industry 4.0 technologies!

You will use Lean, Six Sigma, manufacturing asset management and reliability engineering tools and techniques to optimise throughput, cycle-time, yield as well as reliability, availability, longevity, operational safety and overall total cost of ownership for all manufacturing equipment and production systems.

You will have primary responsibility for leading and supervising the Limerick site Capital Investment portfolio with responsibilities ranging from long-term planning, forecasting and budgeting to Capital Appropriation Request approval and reporting of Supply Chain funded projects.

Beyond steering the capital portfolio, you will build the capabilities of a project management office (PMO) tasked with direct management of capital projects as well as prioritisation and governance over the portfolio of site and platform projects.

Develops and continually improves business process over the entire project lifecycle ensuring optimal Total Cost of Ownership, efficiency, compliance and successful execution of the ...