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Associate Director Manufacturing & Quality Technical Learning & Development
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As Associate Director for Technical Learning & Development, you will lead site-level learning strategies for Manufacturing, Quality, Health & Safety, and Central Functions.
This role offers the opportunity to shape workforce development and learning in a cutting-edge, next-generation drug substance manufacturing facility.
Responsibilities: Serve as the site lead for technical Learning & Development, aligning with global frameworks while addressing local needs Partner with senior leaders and the global Centre of Excellence to deliver future-focused learning solutions Design and implement site-specific site technical Learning initiatives that support compliance, manufacturing excellence, and employee development Ensure governance, compliance, and audit/inspection readiness at all times and proactively address training gaps and regulatory expectations Champion modern, technology-enabled learning (digital, interactive, experiential) Lead and develop the site L&D team, fostering innovation and continuous learning Design and implement training programs that strengthen compliance and workforce capability Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, HR, and SMEs Use data and analytics to measure training impact and drive improvements Requirements: Bachelors degree minimum Minimum 5 years of experience in Learning & Development, Talent Development Manufacturing Training with a focus on regulated environments Strong knowledge of GMP and compliance training Proven leadership of L&D teams in a manufacturing or regulated setting Experience in governance, audit readiness, and inspection preparation Familiarity with modern learning methods (competency-based, digital, AI-driven) Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills Excellent communication, project management, and change management experience Ability to analyse data and provide strategic insights For more information please contact Sinéad Cullen on or
Manufacturing Engineer/Quality Engineer

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At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott Ireland**
In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.
**Vascular Division Clonmel**
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development, and advancing medicine through training and education. Our broad line of vascular devices-which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries, and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia, and other serious vascular conditions.
**We are currently looking for Manufacturing Engineers and Quality Engineers to join our modern site in Clonmel.**
**This is how you will make a difference:**
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for engineering support of manufacturing operations, which will involve key engineering metric management and process optimization activities including Manufacturing Yield improvement, product quality monitoring, lean manufacturing design and material/equipment/process troubleshooting using continuous improvement tools and methodology. Working as part of the operations support team, the manufacturing engineer will liaise with operations, quality, R&D and materials & purchasing departments to ensure quality and efficient manufacturing operations.
**Main responsibilities**
+ Initiates and completes technical activities leading to new or improved products or process, for current programs, next generation programs and to meet strategic goals and objectives of the company.
+ Prepares reports, publishes, and makes presentations to communicate findings.
+ Analyses and solves problems from basic engineering principles, theories and concepts through to a wide range of complex and advanced problems which require novel and new innovative approaches or a major breakthrough in technology.
+ Understands engineering principles theories, concepts, practices and techniques.
+ Understands the business needs of the company, and has knowledge of the customer needs of our business.
+ Understands the business cycle and foresight of emerging technologies trends.
+ Cultivates internal and external network of resources to complete tasks. Serves as a resource in the selection orientation and training of new engineers and employees.
+ May lead a project team, determining goals and objectives for the projects.
+ Mentors employees by sharing technical expertise and providing feedback and guidance.
+ Interacts cross functionally and with internal and external customers.
+ Serves as a consultant for engineering or scientific interpretations and advice on significant matters.
+ Acts as a spokesperson to customers on business unit current and future capabilities.
+ Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
**Experience, Education and Skills Required - Manufacturing Engineer:**
+ National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline.2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
+ Basic technical knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures. Limited understanding of business unit/group function.
+ Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems.
+ Developing a network of internal resources to facilitate completion of tasks.
**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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott Ireland Vascular Division Clonmel**
Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.
Our broad line of vascular devices-which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.
**Purpose Statement:**
Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to manufacturing, helping to ensure delivery of highest quality product to the customer. Provide Process/Quality Engineering support to product development teams, helping to ensure development of highest quality new products.
Shift Role: 2-cycle shift (8-16:30 and 16:30-00:30)
**Key Responsibilities - Quality Engineer:**
1. Identifies manufacturing process defects (scrap, non-conforming material, customer complaints) by dispositioning non-conforming material, identifying primary root causes and suggesting corrective and preventative actions. May be responsible for querying and bounding data to support implementation of basic product stops.
2. Assists in development of product quality plans, documents and systems by providing input to product specifications, quality specifications, quality plans, risk analyses, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) in conjunction with other product development team members. May be responsible for providing input to risk analyses and Failure Mode Effect Analysis' (FMEAs).
3. Becomes skilled at using process monitoring systems by starting to identify critical process steps and applying basic methods to reduce process variation to reduce/eliminate the cause of defects.
4. Assists product/process improvement efforts (example, scrap, nonconforming product, customer complaints) by systematically gathering quality metric data based on previous program templates and by assisting in the appropriate analysis methods to enhance sustaining product design and new product development.
5. Becomes skilled at using quality tools and training materials by working with existing quality tools and training materials and by understanding evolution/history of tools in use.
6. Participates in validation activity. Role may vary between providing input to owning activities such as protocol/report writing and managing execution of validation activities.
7. Participates in corrective and preventive action activity.
8. Participates in Field Discrepancy Notification (FDN) investigations.
**Education & Job Skills - Quality Engineer**
+ (Education/ Experience) National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline. 2+ years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
+ (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures. General understanding of business unit/group function. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
+ (Cognitive Skills) Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.
+ (Influence/Leadership) Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an extensive external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. May lead a project team of moderate scope. Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Acts as a mentor to lower level individual contributors. Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
+ (Planning/Organisation) Plans, organises, and prioritises own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
+ (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action. Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays in program schedules and may result in the allocation of additional resources.
+ (Supervision Provided) May provide limited work direction and guidance to exempt and/or skilled nonexempt levels of employees, may be asked to evaluate performance of and assist in career development planning for subordinates.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
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QA CSQ/CQV specialist contractor/Consultant, he will be reporting to the QA CSQ/CQV Lead.
This role is responsible for oversight of all validation activities ensuring compliance with current regulatory requirements, c GMP, and company SOPs.
It includes validation/qualification activities for facilities, utilities, equipment, computerized systems, cleaning, processes, storage areas, controlled temperature units (CTUs), and shipping.
An important aspect of this role is provision of QA oversight to the Commissioning, Qualification and Validation (CQV) activities associated with the Dundalk Facility start-up project and supporting the transition from project phase through to sustaining phase with respect to validation activities.
Responsibilities Ensure the quality oversight of the qualification/validation activities of all facilities, utilities, equipment, computerized systems, cleaning processes, manufacturing processes, storage areas, controlled temperature units (CTUs), and shipping processes.
Ensure that all validation documentation and associated data, including but not limited to; plans, URSs, quality risk assessments, protocols, and reports, are reviewed and approved by QA for conformance to SOPs, specifications, and other applicable acceptance criteria.
Ensure that all events/deviations, investigations, and change evaluations that occur during qualification/validation activities have appropriate QA oversight, QA review and approval and adhere to SOPs and c GMP requirements.
Review SOPs relating to qualification/validation activities.
Provision of support in Regulatory inspections and Client audits.
Provision of QA Validations expertise to maintain validation status of the facility.
Maintain an understanding of c GMP regulations and guidance in relation to all aspects of validation and/or qualification of facilities, utilities, equipment, computerized systems, cleaning processes, manufacturing processes, storage areas, controlled temperature units (CTUs), and shipping processes.
Coordinate all QA Validations activities to ensure schedule adherence and on time delivery of project deliverables.
Manage and develop the QA Validations team including, but not limited to, activities such as performance management, recruitment, and training.
Other quality activities as needed and assigned.
Special knowledge Deep knowledge of Gx P regulations applicable to biologics manufacturing (e.g.
EU-GMP, FDA, ISO) and the industry standards applicable to validation, including but not limited to; GAMP, ISPE, ISO, ASME and BPE.
Knowledge of trouble shooting and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of formal root cause analysis methods and tools such as Ishikawa diagrams, FMEA etc.
Skills Independent and self-motivated.
Able to multi-task in fast-paced, dynamic working environment.
Strong planning, organisational, and time management skills.
Critical thinking skills.
Able to operate across functional boundaries, both internal and external.
Education background/ Experience B.
Sc. or B. Eng in a Scientific or Engineering related discipline (e.g.
biochemistry, chemistry, engineering).
Experience in a Quality Engineering/Quality Assurance/Quality Validations role for Biologics or related pharmaceutical/ medical device manufacturing in a FDA/ EU regulated environment.
Thorough understanding of the validation requirements associated with a c GMP manufacturing facility.
Strong technical aptitude is required.
Skills: CQV CSQ Validation Gx P c GMP