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Bristol Myers Squibb Ireland

Bristol Myers Squibb has been in operation in Ireland since 1964, employing over 650 people across a range of activities and business units. Located in Dublin, Cruiserath Biologics Campus, a one billion Multi-Product Cell Culture Biologics Manufacturing facility plays a central role in the Global Product Development and Supply (GPS) network as the company’s first European biologics manufacturing facility. This state of the art facility will produce multiple therapies for the company’s growing biologics portfolio. Global Biologics Laboratory (GBL) responsible for the release testing of Biologics Drug product for the network, is also based on the Cruiserath Biologics Campus. BMS Cruiserath has been awarded “Biopharma Company of the Year 2019” in the Irish Pharma Industry Awards and is certified as a Great Place to Work since 2017, including as a Great Place to Work for Women in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Position Summary

Responsible for Bio Pharma network recipe management and support of the Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Systems (EMES) solution that is utilized across BMS manufacturing sites to produce personalized medicine.

The MES Engineer’ scope is supporting the global recipe management strategy including working on recipes from requirements to build, testing and support, reports, and any customizations that support manufacturing and batch disposition operations. At BMS, digital innovation and Information Technology are central to our vision of transforming patients’ lives through science. To accelerate our ability to serve patients around the world, we must unleash the power of technology.  We are committed to being at the forefront of transforming the way medicine is made and delivered by harnessing the power of computer and data science, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to promote scientific discovery, faster decision making, and enhanced patient care.

Desired Candidate Characteristics: 

Have an exceptional commitment to a career in technology with a passion for healthcare 

Ability to understand the needs of the business and commitment to deliver the best user experience and adoption 

Able to collaborate across multiple teams  

Demonstrated leadership experience

Excellent communication skills 

Innovative and inquisitive nature to ask questions, offer bold ideas and challenge the status quo 

Agility to learn new tools and processes 

Key Responsibilities:

Support global recipe management strategy to maximize reuse of recipes and/or recipe segments across sites

Build recipes that are designed around simplicity, flexibility, and cost effectiveness

Update recipes deployed at operational sites and participate in harmonizing recipes across multiple sites

Partner with MS&T and Process Robustness team to configure recipes in support of analytics

Partnering with Supply Chain, MS&T, Quality, and Manufacturing Operations to understand business requirements

Development of functional specifications

Recipe authoring, demos and dry run facilitation

Recipe User Acceptance Testing

Recipe and master data installations and promotions

Ensure recipes are built with consistency and adhere to guidelines

Perform recipe and specification review and approvals

Gather and manage requirements around batch reports that relate to the Review by Exception and Release by Exception strategies

Tier 2/3 escalation support of multisite recipes and process to minimize disruption to manufacturing and/or impact to product

Support strategy for collecting end user feedback and improving the usability and user experience of the overall EMES solution

Support risk and impact assessment that changes, patches, outages or other events can have to the EMES solution and the global network and define mitigation strategies

Support a knowledge management strategy including generating training content and mentoring

Promote compliance with data integrity and computer system validation requirements and regulations

Promote compliance by understanding change and the impact to the validated state of the application and underlying infrastructure

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science or related fields with 2+ years' Life Sciences industry experience and preferably 1 years’ experience in Emerson Syncade MES

Experience in designing and building recipes in automation and execution systems (Syncade, DeltaV, PI Data historian, etc.) in regulated manufacturing environments

Strong domain expertise in the application of IT to manufacturing, including a broad understanding of processes and how they are supported by IT tools and systems.

Strong knowledge of regulatory landscape and demonstrated experience with software validation

Proven track record of successful IT/automation project delivery

Ability to work across global sites and cultures

Ability to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally

Why You Should Apply

You will help patients in their fight against serious diseases

You will be part of a company that encourages excellence and innovation, respects diversity, develops leaders and values its employees

You’ll get a competitive salary and a great benefits package including an annual bonus, pension contribution, family medical assurance, 27 day annual leave, life assurance and on-site gym

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If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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