Industrial Engineer - Capacity Planning - BioPharma Project, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin

Office/Project Location: Dun Laoghaire, Dublin

Employment Type: Contract

Work Location: Hybrid

Pay:  €50 - €60 per hour

Experience: 5+ years

Visa: EU passport or Stamp 4 visa required

Our client is a leading international Biotechnology company with a state of the art aseptic manufacturing facility in Dun Laoghaire, South Dublin. 

The plant is one of the most dynamic in Ireland and is currently undergoing rapid expansion and capital investment. 

This is an excellent opportunity to get experience into Ireland's leading aseptic manufacturing plant.

You will be a key member of the Continuous Improvement and Industrial Engineering team. 

The role supports assigned business areas by owning and improving capacity models, operating assumptions, and capacity decision support across weekly capacity review, monthly rough-cut capacity planning, and annual long-range capacity planning.

You will work across labour and equipment capacity, assessing current operational performance against planning assumptions, identifying constraints and bottlenecks, and supporting ad hoc scenario analysis for assigned areas. 

The role is primarily focused on capacity model ownership, assumption governance, bottleneck identification, and modelling, while also supporting improvement identification and CI activity where capacity-planning expertise is needed.

Own assigned capacity models and associated operating assumptions for labour and equipment capacity.

Update, maintain, and improve assigned models for weekly capacity review, monthly RCCP, annual LRS, periodic assumption reviews, and ad hoc scenario analysis.

Assess current operational performance against capacity assumptions and identify constraints, bottlenecks, utilisation issues, and planning assumptions that affect capacity.

Maintain appropriate governance for assigned models, including assumption review, data validation, refresh checks, documentation, and change control.

Independently present capacity outputs, model changes, assumption drivers, and scenario results to functional area management, Supply Chain, and CI partners.

Support ongoing model improvement, including improved input accuracy, simpler table structures, more automated source-system feeds, faster scenario analysis, and more granular capacity views.

Contribute capacity-planning expertise to improvement identification, kaizen events, and problem-solving activity where capacity, labour, equipment, or bottleneck analysis is relevant.

Contribute to team methods for model governance, operating assumptions, data structure, and capacity-planning standards.

Complete any other tasks or projects assigned by the Continuous Improvement and Industrial Engineering Lead for ADL.

Operates effectively in a matrix environment with site, network, divisional, and functional stakeholders.

Manages multiple responsibilities, priorities, and tasks with appropriate independence and limited direction.

Demonstrates ownership, accuracy, curiosity, structured thinking, and documentation discipline.

Uses data and operational knowledge to challenge assumptions, identify constraints, and recommend practical action.

Communicates capacity analysis, model changes, assumptions, and scenario outputs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Works collaboratively with functional area management, Supply Chain, and CI Specialist partners.

Applies continuous-improvement thinking where capacity analysis helps identify, prioritise, or support improvement activity. 

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business Analytics, or a related discipline.

Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in industrial engineering, capacity planning, manufacturing, supply chain, operations planning, business analytics, or a related operational environment.

Strong Excel capability, including structured tables, formulas, maintainable workbook logic, and clear outputs for business review.

Awareness of Power Query, with the ability to refresh and work with existing query-enabled models.

Experience with labour loading, labour utilisation, equipment loading, capacity assumptions, or similar operational planning analysis.

Demonstrated ability to solve open-ended problems, investigate model or performance changes, and convert analysis into practical recommendations.

Experience working with functional stakeholders and independently presenting analysis, assumptions, and outputs

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

Working knowledge of Power Query, including editing queries and combining or cleaning structured source data.

Experience with planning and ERP systems such as SAP, RapidResponse, or similar systems.

Experience maintaining capacity models, resource models, scenario tools, or assumption-driven planning models.

Experience improving model automation, source-system feeds, table schemas, data validation, or model documentation.

Exposure to bottleneck analysis, sensitivity analysis, queueing, simulation, Factory Physics, Theory of Constraints or flow analysis.

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Green Belt, or equivalent practical continuous-improvement experience.

Package

Contract role - Hourly rate €50 - €60 per hour

Minimum 12 month contract

Onsite Expectations: Three days a week onsite; however, we may need more onsite presence during the onboarding period

Contact

Karen McHugh is the consultant managing this position.

If you are a Risk Manager interested in roles based in Dublin , you can contact Karen by e-mail at Karen@jobcontax.com Karen or phone 353 1 9696683 for a confidential chat.

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