Senior Operational Readiness Associate

Senior Operational Readiness Associate
Hybrid
RK3553
Contract 12 months
Dublin



We’re currently recruiting for an exciting opportunity with an award-winning Pharmaceutical organization based in Dublin. This is an excellent position for anyone who is looking to join a leading multinational who are one of the best at what they do.



This role will monitor compliance and adherence metrics (e.g., milestone readiness, action closure, training and documentation status), provide timely visibility to leadership, and escalate risks, gaps, or non-conformances to sustain safe, compliant, and reliable operations.



Key Responsibilities:

Support Operational Readiness Execution

• Support operational readiness planning and execution across all key milestones. Maintain a forward-looking view of execution needs (12–18 months) to ensure equipment, commissioning, qualification and manufacturing preparedness activities are sequenced to enable safe start-up and reliable operations.
• Align Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, EHS and other functional readiness plans into a single execution rhythm, ensuring handoffs, constraints and critical dependencies are understood and actively managed. Provide clear visibility of readiness status, identify operational risks and escalate emerging issues to maintain compliance, safety and reliability.
• Establish consistent ways of working for readiness reviews, decision logging and action closure to keep teams aligned and accountable.

• Establish and enforce structured progress tracking mechanisms across all workstreams. They should ensure timely updates from functional teams and validate accuracy of reported progress, track milestone readiness and ensure alignment with overall project timelines.
• Hold teams to account through identifying performance gaps and drive accountability with stakeholders. Support regular reporting cycles with accurate, data-driven insights, proactively identify schedule risks, bottlenecks, and dependency conflicts.
• Eescalate risks that could impact critical milestones such as Media Fill or PPQ and should partner with stakeholders to define mitigation plans and track resolution.
• Ensure all functions are aligned to a single integrated schedule and planning framework and act as a central coordination point for schedule-related decision-making.

• Educational background: Level 8 or Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards and data visualizations.
• MS Office and Project Management Computer Skills
• Understanding of project lifecycle phases (commissioning, qualification, etc.).
• Prior Manufacturing experience or relevant experience in pharma/biotech or large-scale project environments.