253 Jobs in Portlaoise

**Company Overview**
With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.-based private software company in the world. And we're only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieve? Read on.
At UKG, you get more than just a job. You get to work with purpose. Our team of U Krewers are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through our award-winning HR technology built for all.
Here, we know that you're more than your work. That's why our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, from wellness programs and tuition reimbursement to U Choose - a customizable expense reimbursement program that can be used for more than 200+ needs that best suit you and your family, from student loan repayment, to childcare, to pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing the best work of your career. If you're passionate about our purpose - people -then we can't wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We're united by purpose, inspired by you.
**Overview**
The Lead Payments Solution Consultant is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing UKG OneView payroll payment solutions. Serving our expanding customer base, the successful candidate ensures the seamless integration of UKG OneView with global payment networks. The lead payment solution consultant is subject matter expert on all matters related to payroll payment processing.
**Key Responsibilities**
+ Responsible for the design and delivery of global payments solutions to support UKG OneView customers.
+ Serve as subject matter expert to facilitate workshops with customer payroll, treasury and finance teams.
+ Design integration frameworks between payroll systems, banks, and payment providers.
+ Ensure scalability, security, and resilience of payment solutions across multiple regions.
+ Contribute to the technical implementation of OneView payroll payment solutions, including APIs, data flows, and automation.
+ Oversee migration projects and onboarding of new countries or payment partners.
+ Ownership of Compliance & Risk Management.
+ Ensure solutions comply with global and local payroll, tax, and payment regulations.
+ Implement data privacy and security best practices in line with GDPR, CCPA, and other standards.
+ Conduct regular risk assessments and audits of payment processes.
+ Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
+ Gather and analyze business requirements to align solutions with UKG strategic goals.
+ Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies in payroll and payments.
+ Identify opportunities for process automation and cost optimization.
+ Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex payment issues.
**Qualifications**
+ Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or related field.
+ 5+ years of experience in payroll, payments, or financial systems architecture.
+ Strong understanding of global payroll processes and cross-border payment regulations.
+ Experience with payroll platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors), payment gateways, and banking APIs.
**Preferred Skills**
+ Experience with robotic process automation and workflow optimization
+ Knowledge of multi-currency and multi-country payroll complexities.
+ Ability to work in a fast-paced, global environment with diverse teams.
**Where we're going**
UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!
UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email
It is the policy of Ultimate Software to promote and assure equal employment opportunity for all current and prospective Peeps without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status entitled to protection under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws. This policy governs all matters related to recruitment, advertising, and initial selection of employment. It shall also apply to all other aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, compensation, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-offs, terminations, leave of absence, and training opportunities.

**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.
**Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Our new manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, opening in 2024, reflects the growing demand for Abbott's global Diabetes Care products. The facility will be a centre for world-class engineering, quality, medical device manufacturing, and other science-based professionals to produce life-changing technologies that enable people with diabetes to live the best and fullest lives they can. At Abbott in Kilkenny, you can shape your career as you help shape the future of healthcare .
**This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:**
In this important role, you will lead category sourcing initiatives focusing on Packaging, encompassing local, domestic and international purchasing opportunities. You will be establishing, articulating, and implementing sourcing strategies, with an emphasis on introducing new suppliers to support the expansion in Kilkenny. This entails obtaining program buy-in from various stakeholder organizations, managing project plans, identifying the resources to support the objectives, and driving projects through complex sourcing processes, ensuring end results meet the requirements of all organisations impacted.
To fulfil this role, you will need a proactive approach that is relationship oriented, customer focused, analytical and data-driven, creative and committed to continuous improvement. Experience in working on new supplier onboarding is a plus.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Overall strategic ownership of suppliers/commodities within the Packaging category.
+ Working closely with business stakeholders in Corporate and Divisional functions to enable business continuity, including driving implementation plans.
+ Nurturing stakeholder relationships by serving as a strong business partner, helping to identify business critical needs and requirements while providing operational support that meets immediate and long-term demands.
+ Being a strategic representative of Abbott, across disciplines, industry and within the community.
+ Proactively identify areas of opportunity for business process improvement.
+ Providing insights to business units on how to optimize and refine Abbott and Supplier processes to improve effectiveness.
+ Influencing business units to align with strategic initiatives that enable effective operational efficiencies across the enterprise.
+ Effective operational leader capable of driving effectiveness for the category.
+ Ability to assess overall needs and react to anticipated and unanticipated disruptions.
+ Driving financial performance thorough supply base management, and category capability building.
+ Strong cost focus, delivering savings, managing negotiations and escalations, and driving value add / value engineering analysis.
+ Influencing and partnering with business leaders to manage and align business needs and requirements for the category.
+ Monitoring global market dynamics and anticipating business critical actions that may be required for business continuity.
+ Being a key relationship manager with category suppliers, driving risk management, and enhanced development of a flexible agile supply base.
**Qualifications and experience**
+ Degree in related discipline.
+ At least 8 years of combined / related experience in a procurement / buying / category management role.
+ Experience in identifying and onboarding new suppliers.
+ Experience of supporting new site / expansion activity.
+ Industry experience in paper packaging / labels preferable.
+ Experience in a manufacturing environment preferable.
+ Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
+ Effective relationship building skills, capable of engaging stakeholders at all levels.
+ Proficiency in PC applications (word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations)
+ CIPS qualification (or equivalent)
+ Degree educated.
**We offer:**
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as
+ Health Insurance for you and your family
+ Pension
+ Life insurance
+ Short Term Disability Protection
+ Long Term Disability Protection
+ Carers leave.
+ Education Assistance
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Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email

**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.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**Main purpose of the role**
Your role as Process Engineer Lead will be to provide the link between the TPM (Third Party Manufacturing) and the ADC internal organisation. You will be responsible for leading the implementation of Process, Equipment and Material Change projects, developing a close understanding of the manufacturing process and interpreting the factors that affect product performance. In addition, the incumbent will provide engineering investigation capabilities for exceptional events and implement change in an environment of continuous improvement, ensuring the site delivers safe and effective biosensor products that meet customer needs whilst maintaining compliance.
It will be a very big plus if you can bring experience in developing projects or sites from square one.
**Main responsibilities**
- As the Specialist in the Pharmaceutical/Biological Process Sub-Function, considered as highly experienced and knowledgeable resource within the organization in implementing and maintaining pharmaceutical/biological processes.
- Calculates and organizes all data for complex process flow sheets including instrumentation and control considerations.
- Models processes and units operations.
- Ensures proper sequence of operation and prepares specifications and operating instructions for processing equipment.
- Conducts tests and measurements throughout stages of production to determine control over such variables as temperature, density, pressure and viscosity.
- Services, troubleshoots, and solves engineering problems with processes or equipment already in operation.
- Ensures processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations.
- May be responsible for corrective and preventive actions and investigation management.
**Qualifications & Experience**
+ Relevant third level qualification. Engineering/Manufacturing/Science is preferred.
+ Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in a manufacturing /industrial environment.
+ Excellent communication / interpersonal skills.
+ Enthusiastic and energetic with the ability to lead a team.
+ Demonstrated flexible and innovative approach to work.
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**What we Offer:**
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as
+ Family health insurance
+ Excellent pension scheme
+ Life assurance
+ Career Development
+ Fantastic new facility
+ Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
Connect with us at or on LinkedIn at on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email

**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.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:**
As an Operations Quality Engineer you will Analyse quality standards for components, materials or services. Apply measures, sampling methods, testing methodology and other procedures that ensure that quality standards are met. Provide Quality expertise and guidance to Manufacturing/Operations, Technical/Product Test and Incoming Materials to support the manufacture and delivery of quality and compliant products on time, in full and cost effectively to meet the needs of the business and customers.
This is a shift based role on 4 cycle shift.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Apply quality principles, analyses quality records, prepares reports and recommends improvements.
+ Conduct inspection, verification and validation of components or materials used in development processes.
+ Identify and address recurring problems either with the quality of the product or the reliability of testing procedures.
+ Document quality issues and performance measures for management review.
+ May liaise with external vendors.
+ Monitor and maintain the validation status of site products, processes and systems and monitor and maintain process FMEA and Critical Quality Attribute systems. Maintain site validation plans and periodic review process. Support Equipment and Software validation activities and support Process validation activities
+ Provide regular updates to peers and colleagues on project resource requirements and ensure other quality functions are brought into project teams at appropriate points.
+ Report on and support the implementation of actions to reduce the occurrence/reoccurrence of non-conformances within Manufacturing, Product Test and Incoming Material and initiating Exception Reports for discrepancies observed during inspection / testing & review activities.
+ Present and communicate status, report metrics, identify trends potential issues, improvement initiatives and CAPA requirements.
+ Investigating customer complaints and forwarding reports to PQA group and responsible for maintaining Corrective and Preventive Action programs.
+ Responsible for maintaining an appropriate balance of quality, compliance and business risk and responsible for ensuring teams use appropriate risk management tools to prioritize certain activities and justify the level of effort required.
+ Monitor and maintain the quality and compliance status of associated quality records and ensure project teams maintain project records in compliance with Quality System and planned requirements.
+ Support DMR change control and calibration activities.
**Qualifications and Experience**
+ Minimum NFQ Level 7 Qualification in Engineering or Manufacturing qualification
+ 3 years in a Manufacturing / Science or Engineering environment
+ GMP/GDP experience
+ ISO 13485 experience
+ Yellow belt qualification desired.
**What we Offer**
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as
+ Family health insurance,
+ Excellent pension scheme
+ Life assurance
+ Career Development
+ Fantastic new facility
+ Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
Connect with us at or on LinkedIn at on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email

**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.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**Main Purpose of the role**
Works with the Materials Engineering Manager and wider Technical Services team, to support the introduction of new or changed materials/components to the site. Helps to trouble-shoot and resolve material related challenges for the site, by completing investigations, determining root cause, reporting out findings and proposing solutions.
Identifies component-related opportunities to optimise yield and OEE for daily operations and supports sustaining of materials / components for the site.
Works closely with various stakeholders including, but not limited to: Validation, PMO, Operations, Global Engineering and Quality.
**Main responsibilities**
+ Identify root cause of component-related manufacturing issues using structured problem-solving techniques.
+ Develop DOEs (Design of Experiments), complete testing and analyse data for continuous improvement activities and report out findings.
+ Run empirical and experimental analysis and use data to make decisions.
+ Support site Ops to resolve material related challenges and deliver the output as per site goals.
+ Support Validation activities related to material changes.
+ Support R&D material trials and provide feedback.
+ Monitor performance of parts and drive the performance related actions.
+ Evaluate proposed changes and alternative components/designs.
+ Assist in the resolution of Quality Incidents and CAPA.
+ Bring materials related learnings from line 1 to future lines.
+ Apply LEAN methodologies to drive operational excellence.
+ Support the delivery of site specific KPI's and reporting, including maintaining visual dashboards? ?
+ Participate in cross-functional activities as necessary, to ensure continual improvement, safety and compliance.
+ Analyse complex processes and problems and identify areas of improvement and risk.
+ Analyse data to identify trends and potential improvements, ensuring compliance with industry standards and global regulations.
+ Suggest and support new methods or materials for continual improvement of quality and efficiency.
+ Provide technical support to other engineers within the group and mentor and develop junior associates.
+ Support relevant site teams for BOMs and Agile related work
+ Learn, challenge, develop and maintain a working knowledge of Abbott Quality Policy and Procedures.
**_Qualifications & Experience_**
+ Minimum Level 8 NFQ qualification or Equivalent in a relevant discipline.
+ Minimum of 5 years previous work experience.
+ Working in a manufacturing environment - GxP experience preferred.
+ Working with materials/components (incl. electrical, moulded and/or mechanical)
+ Resolving technical challenges on a High-volume automation line.
+ Using 6M, Ishikawa, DMAIC or other root cause analysis tools
+ Six-Sigma.
**What we Offer:**
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as
+ Family health insurance
+ Excellent pension scheme
+ Life assurance
+ Career Development
+ Fantastic new facility
+ Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
Connect with us at and on LinkedIn , Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube .
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email

Site Reliability Engineers at UKG are critical team members that have a breadth of knowledge encompassing all aspects of service delivery. They develop software solutions to enhance, harden and support our service delivery processes. This can include building and managing CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, capacity planning, performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, chaos engineering and auto remediation.
Site Reliability Engineers must be passionate about learning and evolving with current technology trends. They strive to innovate and are relentless in pursuing a flawless customer experience. They have an "automate everything" mindset, helping us bring value to our customers by deploying services with incredible speed, consistency, and availability.
**Job Responsibilities:**
+ Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services from conception to EOL, including system designconsulting, and capacity planning
+ Define and implement standards and best practices related to: System Architecture, Servicedelivery, metrics and the automation of operational tasks
+ Support services, product & engineering teams by providing common tooling and frameworks todeliver increased availability and improved incident response
+ Improve system performance, application delivery and efficiency through automation, processrefinement, postmortem reviews, and in-depth configuration analysis
+ Collaborate closely with engineering professionals within the organization to deliver reliableservices
+ Increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services by treating operationalchallenges as a software engineering problem (reduce toil)
+ Guide junior team members and serve as a champion for SiteReliability Engineering
+ Actively participate in incident response, including on-call responsibilities
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Must have at least 3 years of hands-on experience working in Engineering or Cloud
+ Minimum 2 years' experience with public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
+ Minimum 2 years' Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications and/orsystems infrastructure for large scale customer facing company
+ Experience coding in higher-level languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, C++, or Java)
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Knowledge of Cloud based applications & Containerization Technologies
+ Demonstrated understanding of best practices in metric generation and collection, log aggregationpipelines
+ Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security,or Network Design fundamentals Demonstrable fundamentals in 2 of the following: Computer Science, Cloud architecture, Security, or Network Design fundamentals
**Where we're going**
UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!
UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email
It is the policy of Ultimate Software to promote and assure equal employment opportunity for all current and prospective Peeps without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status entitled to protection under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws. This policy governs all matters related to recruitment, advertising, and initial selection of employment. It shall also apply to all other aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, compensation, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-offs, terminations, leave of absence, and training opportunities.

**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.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:**
We are currently recruiting for Manufacturing Technicians across area's such as Surface Mount Technology, E Beam, Packing and Puck. In this role you will provide technical support relating to equipment utilized in the manufacturing areas by repairing, maintaining, or modifying production equipment utilizing technical expertise, technical manuals, schematic drawings, precision tools, and test equipment. You will utilize data reports on equipment and systems to generate improvement initiatives, monitor machine output on the shift to and ensure all cells are running to cycle time, to meet specific OEE targets. Perform and/or participate with conducting routine maintenance checks to ensure the operational efficiency of machines and production equipment is maintained to the desired standards. Monitor processes, running diagnostic tests with products and equipment, create a comprehensive report for resolution methods, familiar with asset maintenance software (Maximo preferable).
Your main responsibilities will be:
+ Activities include conducting scheduled maintenance, diagnosing, and troubleshooting faults and undertaking repairs, and selecting, engaging, and working with outside contractors.
+ Performs the most complex skilled maintenance and repair such as mechanical, pneumatics, electrical systems.
+ Ability to interpret blueprints and schematics.
+ Good understanding on day-to-day operation for conveyors, depositors, p&p machines, and weighing machines.
+ Assist in the compilation and presentation of technical feedback on engineering performance relating to yield output.
+ Lead on maintenance and/or process issues and to work independently or as a team member.
+ Monitor production processes, running diagnostic tests with products and equipment, and create a comprehensive report for resolution methods
+ Certifies and train manufacturing associates in the production processes.
+ Evaluate operating data to conduct on-line adjustments to products, instruments, or equipment. May develop or revise documents and procedures.
+ Identifies and implements corrective actions for manufacturing related issues.
+ Installs and validates equipment and processes in the production area to improve yield and/or reduce cycle time following the established validation procedure.
**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
+ Min level 6 in technical related discipline.
+ Electrical and mechanical skills are desired.
+ Must have excellent knowledge with industrial machines and the mechanical industry, as their expertise is crucial in keeping the safety and security of all production staff.
+ Experience within a Computerized Maintenance Management Work Order system environment.
+ Technical and fault-finding skills
+ Surface mount technology experience an advantage.
**What we Offer**
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as
+ Family health insurance,
+ Excellent pension scheme
+ Life assurance
+ Career Development
+ Fantastic new facility
+ Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
Connect with us at and on LinkedIn , Facebook ( , Instagram , X ( and YouTube .
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email

**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.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**What is this position:**
As Manufacturing Technician you will provide technical support relating to equipment utilized in the manufacturing areas by repairing, maintaining, or modifying production equipment.
Monitoring machine output on the shift to and ensure all cells are running to cycle time, to meet specific targets.
**What You'll Be Doing:**
+ Install and equipment validation
+ Conducting scheduled maintenance, diagnosing, and troubleshooting faults
+ Perform skilled maintenance and repair such as mechanical, pneumatics, electrical systems
+ Lead on maintenance and/or process issues
+ Ability to interpret blueprints and schematics.
+ Certifies and train manufacturing associates in the production processes.
+ Identifies and implements corrective actions for manufacturing related issues.
**How does this role fit into the organisation:**
You will report to a process Engineering Manager on a team of approx. 20. Your team will include process engineers and manufacturing technicians.
**What we're looking for:**
+ Min level 6 qualification (Trade or Third level equivalent)
+ Electrical and mechanical skills are desired
+ Technical and fault-finding skills
**What's in it for you:**
+ Pension
+ Healthcare
+ Bonus
+ Life insurance
+ Disability insurance
+ Paid maternity leave
+ Parental leave
+ Adoptive leave
+ Flexible working
Connect with us at and on LinkedIn , Facebook ( , Instagram , X ( and YouTube .
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email

**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.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:**
As a Warehouse Operator, in Abbott, Kilkenny you will be responsible for ensuring a high-quality Storage and Warehousing service is provided to the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Departments, including but not limited to the receipt, storage and shipment of materials and products, whilst adhering to and maintaining Abbott Quality policies and procedures and to the required service level.
**Your main responsibilities will be:**
- To Perform activities related to the receipt, storage, inventory control and shipment of materials.
- Compliance with EHS systems, programs and procedures, being accountable for the health and safety of themselves and others by highlighting where improvements can be made.
- Routine material handling tasks related to the receipt, movement and shipment of materials and Finished goods.
- Receiving deliveries to site and recording the data on the Warehouse Management System (WMS).
-Pick and stage materials based on production work orders and kanban process.
- Pick, prepare and dispatch materials for sub-contract or third-party manufacture processing, arranging transport as necessary.
- To pick, prepare and dispatch Finished Goods for distribution.
- Process transactions related to the receipt, issue, shipment, or transfer of materials in ERP system.
- Perform regular inventory counts as per the requirements of the site PIC requirements (Physical Inventory Control Procedures), and Cycle Count procedures.
- Work with Operations Planning Team members to resolve any issues related to the receipt and approval of materials.
- Ensure that equipment is kept in a good, safe condition in terms of mechanical functionality and cleanliness. Continually maintain a high level of housekeeping. Keep all areas clean, safe and tidy, reporting any cleaning and safety issues to the Warehouse Lead.
- Support the development of a safe working environment and proactively identify any safety issues and report to the Warehouse Lead.
-Operate warehouse machinery and equipment in accordance to manufactures recommendations and training protocols.
**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Strong Communication skills.
- Must be comfortable and confident working at heights. (VNA Operation)
- Previous forklift experience desirable but not essential as training will be provided.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Previous experience in Stores / Warehouse environment desirable.
- Comfortable working with computers.
Connect with us at or on LinkedIn at on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email