🧪 Quality Manager – Pharma
📍 Location: Wicklow, Ireland
💼 Job Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🏗️ Sector: Pharmaceutical | Engineering | M&E | EPC
🎯 Project: Major Pharmaceutical Project
🚀 The Opportunity
Zircoe Recruitment is partnering with a leading engineering contractor to recruit an experienced Quality Manager for a number of pharmaceutical projects in Wicklow.
This is a key project leadership position responsible for establishing, implementing and maintaining quality systems throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring all construction and engineering activities meet contractual, regulatory and client requirements.
⚠️ Previous pharmaceutical project experience is essential for this position.
Working closely with Project Management, Engineering, Construction and Commissioning teams, the successful candidate will drive a proactive right-first-time approach to quality, ensuring issues are identified early, effectively managed and successfully closed out.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the project Quality function from mobilisation through to completion.
- Develop, implement and maintain the project Quality Management Plan.
- Ensure project activities comply with approved specifications, drawings, standards and client requirements.
- Develop and manage Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs).
- Coordinate quality inspections, audits and surveillance activities.
- Monitor construction and installation activities to ensure compliance with project requirements.
- Manage NCRs, observations, corrective actions and close-out.
- Identify quality risks and implement appropriate mitigation measures.
- Review and approve quality documentation, inspection records and test documentation.
- Coordinate quality activities across Engineering, Construction, Commissioning and Project Management teams.
- Liaise with clients, consultants, subcontractors and suppliers on quality matters.
- Conduct internal and subcontractor quality audits.
- Monitor subcontractor quality performance and ensure required standards are maintained.
- Ensure quality records are accurately maintained and fully traceable.
- Support FAT, SAT, testing, commissioning and handover activities.
- Manage quality-related aspects of project handover and close-out.
- Provide regular quality reporting to senior project management.
- Promote a strong culture of quality, continuous improvement and right-first-time delivery.
👤 About You
We're looking for an experienced Quality professional with a strong background in major construction and engineering projects, ideally within highly regulated environments.
⚠️ Essential Requirements
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Construction, Quality Management or a related discipline.
- Significant experience as a Quality Manager or Senior Quality Engineer within construction or engineering.
- Proven pharmaceutical project experience – essential.
- Strong experience managing quality across major construction, M&E or engineering projects.
- Detailed understanding of Quality Management Systems and construction quality processes.
- Experience developing and managing ITPs, Quality Plans and inspection procedures.
- Proven experience managing NCRs, corrective actions and quality audits.
- Strong understanding of construction and engineering specifications, standards and documentation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and organisational abilities.
- Ability to manage quality across multiple disciplines and contractors.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office and relevant quality management systems.
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Experience within pharmaceutical or life sciences manufacturing environments.
- Experience delivering major M&E projects.
- Experience with mechanical and electrical installations.
- Experience working within GMP-regulated environments.
- Knowledge of CQV and commissioning processes.
- Experience with cleanrooms and controlled environments.
- Experience with validation-related quality requirements.
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor / Internal Auditor qualification.
- Quality-related professional qualification or membership.
- Experience with digital quality management and document control systems.
🧪 Key Quality Areas
- Quality Management Systems
- Pharmaceutical Construction
- M&E Quality
- Quality Plans
- Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs)
- Quality Inspections
- NCR Management
- Corrective & Preventive Actions
- Auditing
- Subcontractor Quality Management
- Construction Documentation
- Testing & Commissioning
- FAT / SAT
- Handover & Close-Out
- Continuous Improvement
- Client Quality Requirements
📍 Project Location
Wicklow, Ireland – Pharmaceutical Projects
The successful candidate will be site-based and will play a key role in managing quality delivery throughout the project lifecycle.
📩 Apply Today
If you're an experienced Quality Manager or Senior Quality Engineer with proven pharmaceutical project experience, this is an excellent opportunity to take a key quality leadership position on a major project.
Apply today or contact Zircoe Recruitment for a confidential discussion.
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