Maintenance Reliabiltiy Engineer

PE Global is recruiting for a Maintenance Reliabiltiy Engineer for our biopharmaceutical client in Dublin. This is an initial 12-month contract, hybrid role.

The Maintenance Reliability Engineer is responsible for improving the reliability, availability, and maintainability of plant equipment and utilities within the manufacturing facility. The role focuses on developing and sustaining a robust reliability framework that ensures right-first-time maintenance execution, minimises unplanned downtime, and optimises asset lifecycle performance in support of safe, compliant, and efficient operations.

The role partners closely with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, and Quality to analyse equipment performance, identify failure modes, and implement preventive and predictive maintenance strategies. The Maintenance Reliability Engineer also leads continuous improvement initiatives to reduce non-commercial time, improve equipment uptime, and increase overall plant availability.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support Drug Product manufacturing within the Formulation, Vial/Syringe Filling, Lyophilisation and Component Preparation.

• Employ business analytics to assess performance and identify improvement opportunities for Equipment Reliability, Maintenance Reliable Execution, Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance.

• Develop & Design Multi-Year Reliability roadmap and ensure flawless execution with close collaboration/partnership with key cross-functional stakeholders.

• Analyse equipment performance data (e.g. downtime, failure trends, MTBF, MTTR) to identify chronic issues and implement sustainable reliability improvements.

• Collaborate with system owners, planners, and technicians to define maintenance scopes, refine job plans, and ensure maintenance tasks are technically sound, risk-based, and executable.

• Support shutdown and non-commercial time activities by ensuring reliability-critical work is correctly prioritised, scoped, and executed to deliver right-first-time outcomes.

• Drive continuous improvement through the cycle, capturing lessons learned and embedding standard work, best practices, and technical documentation into future maintenance execution.

• Lead and support system improvements, development of detailed specifications, engineering documents and standard operating procedures.

• Solving complex problems, project management, equipment lifecycle management and operational excellence.

• Support a safe working environment by complying with all pertinent environmental health/safety practice, rules and regulations.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Chemical, Software) or equivalent qualification and/or relevant experience.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a cGxP manufacturing environment in a maintenance, reliability, or engineering role.

• Demonstrated ability to work across functional boundaries and influence outcomes without direct authority.

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years’ engineering experience in a pharmaceutical or biotech manufacturing environment.

• ≥3 years’ experience supporting aseptic fill / finish or other highly regulated manufacturing processes.

• Proven experience implementing reliability improvement initiatives in complex, multi-system facilities.

Knowledge and Relevant Experience

• Strong working knowledge of pharmaceutical/biotech manufacturing and aseptic processing.

• Fundamental understanding of GxP, EHS, and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Asset reliability methodologies (RCA, FMEA, criticality analysis, PM optimisation).

• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems (e.g. Maximo) and data-driven maintenance decision-making.

• Application of continuous improvement tools and methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM).

Skills

• Strong collaborator who promotes a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Ability to assess and influence both short- and long-term decisions impacting equipment uptime and plant availability.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and prioritisation skills.

• Strong technical writing and communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Ability to balance tactical execution with strategic reliability planning.

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV.

Please click the link below to apply, or alternatively send an up-to-date CV to paul.wheatley@peglobal.net

***Please note our client cannot assist with any visa sponsorship and candidates must have the correct visa to live and work in Ireland***