Systems Technician

Location: Athlone, Ireland

Role Overview: As a Systems Technician, you will have the opportunity to leverage your curiosity and collaborate with innovative and diverse professionals worldwide. Your role will impact the organization by:

• Providing support to production and maintenance teams.
• Implementing strategic and tactical system enhancements to give manufacturing a competitive edge.
• Contributing innovative ideas to new production lines in areas such as control, data collection, motive power, robotics, and communications.
• Strictly adhering to CGMP requirements.
• Enhancing compliance initiatives within your areas of responsibility.
• Actively participating in team meetings.
• Supporting engineering projects and leading actions assigned to the systems group.

Skills and Expertise: To succeed in this role from day one, you should have the following qualifications:

• Fully certified electrician or a certificate/diploma in Electrical Engineering, Automation, or Mechatronics.
• Essential experience with PLC programmers, motion control, sensors, in-line vision systems (especially Cognex), barcode systems, network topology, PC skills, PC application software, and systematic troubleshooting/problem-solving skills.
• Experience in high-volume automation or plant control, including SCADA, Allen Bradley (Control Logix & PLC 5), Siemens, or similar PLC programming and control.
• Experience working within a GMP environment.

Additional Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience with Allen-Bradley Controllogix5000 and PLC5 programming, ControlNet/Device Net, Visual Basic applications, motion control programming (Sercos, AB, Emerson, Lenze), and barcode systems (SICK, DVT).
• Knowledge of equipment and software validation (IQ, OQ, and PQ).
• Familiarity with FDA regulations, including 21CFR Part 11 (Electronic records, electronic signatures) and Part 820 (Quality system regulation).

Additional Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent teamwork abilities.
• High flexibility regarding shift changes, travel commitments, training courses, and project support.
• Salary - high-reaching dependent on skills and experience plus excellent benefits package.
• Shift Pattern: Days: Monday - Friday 39 hours
• Alternatively Rotating 3 cycle shifts with Shift Allowance – 25%
• Must be legally authorized to work in Ireland

For further information on this role in Athlone please contact Dee Curley on 086 7902191 / dee@hero.ie

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