Summary
Ciarán Joyce is a chartered engineering leader and Associate Director of Digital with 13+ years’ experience delivering capital, validation and digital transformation across FMCG and pharmaceutical manufacturing. He blends deep GxP and operational know-how with practical digital skills (PowerBI, Snowflake/SQL, Power Platform, GenAI) to drive measurable improvements in safety, quality, sustainability and productivity. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, he has executed multi-million dollar projects and uplifted OEE and schedule adherence across seven world-class plants spanning four continents. A trained root-cause investigator and certified manufacturing engineer, he couples Lean/6σ rigor with low-code/no-code coaching to scale site capabilities and sustain benefit realization. Unusually for a director-level digital lead, he still writes the analytics and automation that remove administrative waste, and he represents his site in regional and global digitalization forums. Based in Greater Sydney, he brings a global perspective and a track record of turning complex regulated requirements into clear, auditable, high-impact solutions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Certified, Certificate, Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Certified at Cork Institute of Technology
International School of Moshi, Tanzania
Certificate, Operational Excellence, GPA 4.0, Certificate, Operational Excellence, GPA 4.0 at Stevens Institute of Technology
MEng, Biomedical Engineering, First Class Honours, MEng, Biomedical Engineering, First Class Honours at University College Dublin
Kilkenny College
Biomedical Engineering Masters, Digital Signal Processing, Comsol Finite Element Modelling, Cell and tissue engineering, Biomedical Engineering Masters, Digital Signal Processing, Comsol Finite Element Modelling, Cell and tissue engineering at University of New South Wales
Certificate, PSYCHOLOGY, First Class Honours, Certificate, PSYCHOLOGY, First Class Honours at Maynooth University
International School of Kenya
International Exchange, Electronic Engineering, International Exchange, Electronic Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Cistercian College Roscrea
Spanish, English, Japanese, French, Chinese