We specialize in helping our life science clients with their Distributed Control System implementation at every stage of the process. We also support PLC’s and MES systems.
VALIDATION
We provide engineers who can develop and implement everything required for a successful project documentation delivery.
PROCESS
We have extensive experience in biotechnology process design. Our engineers provide robust design solutions for our life science clients.
PROJECT CONTROLS
We specialize in project scheduling & cost control management. With over 1.5 billion worth of Commercial Construction / Bio Pharma work scheduled and managed, our team gets the project done on time and in budget.
INSTRUMENTATION
We provide instrumentation startup and commissioning services as well as staff augmentation during shut downs and busy periods.
LEARNING
We deliver effective solutions to enhance understanding. Using the latest technology to enable the highest quality e-learning and m-learning.
We exist to empower people to do great things.
We value authenticity in each other and the companies we work with.
Each member of the Skellig team has been selected for their work competency and quality as an individual. We seek out that rare mix of personality and technical ability, then we go out of our way to take care of and empower these individuals.
As a collective, we do everything we can to keep things simple. We value elegance in design. We support and encourage engineers and innovators. As a group, we squash politics through transparency in our approach and engagement of fellow employees and clients.
Skellig is a holacracy run organization. See www.holacracy.org for more information.
We are striving to be more human, more personal and more real.
Dan Davis
Philadelphia, PA
daniel.davis@skellig.com
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Kalirajan Neerathilingam
Pune, India
kalirajan.neerathilingam@skellig.com
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Brennan Burns
Boston, MA
brennan.burns@skellig.com
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Ben Schreiber
Denver, CO
ben.schreiber@skellig.com
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Megha Modak
Boston, MA
megha.modak@skellig.com
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Eryca Strong
Los Angeles, CA
eryca.strong@skellig.com
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Jack Ahern
Cork, Ireland
jack.ahern@skellig.com
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Fiona Ryan
Cork, Ireland
fiona.ryan@skellig.com
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Tracy Taggart
Boston, MA
tracy.taggart@skellig.com
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Anthony O’Regan
Cork, Ireland
anthony.oregan@skellig.com
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Arun Kumar
New Delhi, India
arun.kumar@skellig.com
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Stephen Mar
Los Angeles, CA
stephen.mar@skellig.com
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Greg Hartnett
Boston, MA
greg.hartnett@skellig.com
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Mary Kimball
Boston, MA
mary.kimball@skellig.com
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Owen Searls
Los Angeles, CA
owen.searls@skellig.com
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Kurt Voelker
Los Angeles, CA
kurt.voelker@skellig.com
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Jennifer Jones
Tacoma, WA
jennifer.jones@skellig.com
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Purnendu Saptarshi
Boston, MA
purnendu.saptarshi@skellig.com
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Kedar Kolhatkar
Boston, MA
kedar.kolhatkar@skellig.com
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Lai Man Cheung
Boston, MA
laiman.cheung@skellig.com
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Padraig O’Sullivan
Cork, Ireland
padraig.osullivan@skellig.com
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Eamon Godsell
Boston, MA
eamon.godsell@skellig.com
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Michael Gowen
Cork, Ireland
michael.gowen@skellig.com
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Eoin Kiely
Raleigh, NC
eoin.kiely@skellig.com
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Our Automation Group specializes in helping Life Science Clients with Distributed Control System implementation at every stage of the process on platforms including Emerson’s DeltaV, Syncade, Provox, Honeywell, AB PLC systems and Siemens S7/PCS7.
We understand the importance of each stage in the lifecycle of a project. Considering each piece in the puzzle from an experienced and knowledgeable point of view is paramount to success. We guide our clients through the crucial and often rushed stages of Front End Studies (FEED) and User Requirement Specifications (URS); as well as Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS) development.
We employ well-established methodologies to deliver the highest quality design and system configuration for our clients. Additionally, we support our clients with continuity of resources throughout the start up and qualification activities phase of a project.
The Life Sciences industry is adopting risk based qualification strategies on GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) production systems with the aim of improved project execution performance.
Skellig Validation serves as a valued partner with our Life Science clients through all stages of a project. Early on we develop a project business case and a validation master plan to ensure successful delivery and qualification of our client’s GMP compliant automation, MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and IT (Information Technology) solutions. With a combined understanding of compliance, technology and cost we can design and deliver a qualified and optimally functional system within budget.
As part of a Risk-Based approach in collaboration with our clients, Skellig Validation provides engineers who can develop and implement everything required for a successful project documentation delivery.
Skellig Process engineers are bioprocess technology experts. Design and implementation core competencies include: cell culture, buffer & media, downstream purification, CIP, SIP, and disposables unit operations. This is coupled with a thorough understanding of regulatory requirements for GMP and GTP manufacturing.
Skellig Process engineers have extensive experience in biotech process design and a track record of success providing robust design solutions for clients in the biotech space.
The team at Skellig has the knowledge and industry experience to ensure that our clients’ projects are delivered on time and within budget. Skellig’s valued performance is driven by our passion for our work and desire to always meet our customers’ requirements.
Much like Skellig’s passionate engineers, the project controls staff are committed to excellence by exceeding the customer’s expectations. By committing to such excellence, these professionals give our clients the best opportunity to succeed every time.
Our project experience spans many industries and project types. With specialization in the BioPharm Manufacturing sector, other industries include Aerospace Manufacturing, Commercial Construction, Civil/Infrastructure and Military. The team draws upon various background and experience, and includes project types of varying size and complexity such as green field sites and facilities, utility modifications, facility upgrades and retrofits, just to name a few. Collectively, the Skellig team has executed over $1.5B in capital construction projects.
Scheduling services include such areas as development, reporting and management. Developing a useful and realistic schedule is the first critical step, which Skellig will manage with the client’s input to ensure that their deliverables are accurately captured within the correct work breakdown structure (WBS), duration and logic. The standard WBS for Skellig managed projects are built with the end user in mind, ensuring the project teams find them useful and will rely on them for timely and accurate information. A template has been developed that allows system owner and area leads to quickly and efficiently identify their scope, reducing the painful process of building the schedule. This template takes into consideration current industry best practices, which rely heavily upon a risk-based approach to commissioning and qualification (C&Q). Additionally, standard resource codes have been developed to allow management to understand total hours and resource requirements, which can report out to a cost estimate as well. This allows clients to track resources across all projects and plan better for resource allocation across an entire site.
There are many reporting methods and standards that clients choose to utilize for their project schedules, with our Location Coding Skellig can quickly customize any schedule to properly communicate our clients needs. Custom reports will be developed for top management, while different reports will be utilized for each team member.
Skellig Instrumentation strives to always understand the concerns of our clients facility operators. Our engineers and technicians provide instrumentation startup and commissioning services as well as staff augmentation during shut downs and busy periods to work side by side with our clients, supporting them through these periods where time and quality of work are paramount.
Our expertise developed while working with different systems enables us to foresee any issues that may arise at these times keeping the timeline on track. Our capabilities allow for smooth integration of instrumentation systems and a hassle free project completion.
Our learning team is part of a collaboration with New England Controls and Scratch Empire. We’ve joined forces to provide innovative learning platforms built from the ground up with a focus on innovation, engagement and metrics. Whether it’s E-learning or M-Learning, our products are easily accessible and designed to be delivered via our clients Learning Management System. We focus on updatable with content customized per project / process using:
SCREEN CAPTURED SCENARIOS
LIVE ACTION DEMONSTRATIONS
QUIZES ON EACH TASK BEING TAUGHT
INTEGRATED LEARNING SCENARIOS
INTEGRATED SIMULATION SYSTEM
SCREEN CAPTURED SCENARIOS
LIVE ACTION DEMONSTRATIONS
QUIZES ON EACH TASK BEING TAUGHT
INTEGRATED LEARNING SCENARIOS
INTEGRATED SIMULATION SYSTEM
We deliver a robust state of the art learning environment that encourages engagement and delivers realtime trackable metrics.
We package it all in a beautiful user interface that is easily accessed and navigated. These custom training products are a great way for our clients to decrease on boarding and training times for new hires and reassignments.
From humble beginnings, Skellig has grown into a strong, adept and innovative player in the Life Science services industry worldwide.
Conceived and shaped in South West Ireland, Skellig has adapted to opportunity and developed a presence in major Pharma/Biotech regions across the United States and around the globe. The Group draws inspiration for it’s name from a small chain of islands off the South Western coast of Ireland. A world heritage site, and the pride of County Kerry, the Skellig Islands served as the backdrop to Paul O’Sullivan’s childhood.
Initially the larger of the rocks, Skellig Michael was used as a Monastery by Christian monks between the 6th and 12th Centuries. Remarkably, the majority of the original stone structures are still intact, and today serve as a popular tourist attraction for visitors to the Southwest region. The Skelligs will also feature as a location in the next two upcoming Star Wars films.
Founded in 2010, the Skellig team has expanded to include some incredibly talented individuals. We now have locations in Pennsylvania, Boston, Los Angeles, Dublin, Ireland and will soon grow to include Pune, India and Cork, Ireland.
BOSTON 
867 BOYLSTON STREET
5TH FLOOR
BOSTON MA 02116
DANVILLE (HQ)
210 ORANGE STREET
DANVILLE PA 17821
DUBLIN 
GUINNESS ENTERPRISE CENTRE
TAYLOR’S LANE
DUBLIN 8
LOS ANGELES
2945 TOWNSGATE ROAD
SUITE 200
WESTLAKE VILLAGE
CALIFORNIA 91361
PUNE 
COMING SOON
CORK
CITY GATE BUILDING 1000
UNITS 1201 & 1202
CORK
IRELAND
CURRENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE:
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Automation Engineer
DeltaV or Syncade engineer needed to convert coffee into code.
We need MORE great automation engineers who know DeltaV and Syncade.
Our group (Skellig) is relatively small but we’ve been really lucky to hire amazing engineers so far. Now we want to expand our network a little more.
We are a young group primarily made up of DeltaV engineers and we want to find more people who can help us tackle the abundant opportunities in BOSTON, Los Angeles, San Fransciso and North Carolina primarily. With that said, no matter where you are we’d like to chat and see if we could collaborate on arriving at a win win scenario.
Our group is ALL about supporting great engineers (as well as potentially great) to be the best they can be. As a company we value honesty and transparency in all our interactions. There is no company inner circle and we try to do everything we can to keep politics out of our group.
We want to make a real difference in this world of industrial automation by helping our engineers have a better work life balance.
If you are interested and up to the task we will send you to one of our client sites to help out with a DeltaV project.
Realistically for one of these roles you will need some of the following:
- Proficiency in authoring functional requirements specifications.
Configuration of DeltaV equipment module classes, control module classes, batch recipe procedures, unit procedures, operations and phases. - Using data historians (DeltaV Batch Historian, DeltaV Continuous Historian, and PI Historian)
- Graphics packages (iFix)
- Contribute to solution delivery for MES and Mfg IT projects as project team member
- Coordinate and drive common technical solution for global projects
- Support customer MES deployment projects
- Review vendor design documents to ensure compliance with user and functional requirements specifications; executing software changes on a validated system in a change control environment; and execution of FAT / SAT; and familiarity with 21CFR11, cGxP, GAMP, S88.
- Experience working on projects in a system integrator role.
We will be up front and honest with you about how we see you fitting into the group and if you reach out to us we promise we won’t drag this out. We want good quality people and in return for you giving us (and our clients) your sweat and expertise we’ll give you great salary and benefits and a promise to do everything we can to make this job work with the rest of your life!
Boston, MA
1st September, 2015
Project Controls Junior Scheduler
Summary Job Description
Working with a Senior Scheduler and Project Manager the Junior Scheduler will learn how to create CPM baseline project schedules in Microsoft Project and manage project deliverables for Biomedical Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Capital Projects. Work alongside the client, Baxter Healthcare, to develop baseline schedules, analyze critical path, statues project & generate weekly reports. Junior Scheduler will manage 3-6 Capital Projects (depending on project complexity). Training is will be onsite and consist of the below skills under the guidance of a Senior Scheduler.
Detail Job Description
Once trained typical duties and responsibilities will include:
- Supports the project team and stakeholders with time management and control.
- Develops and updates summary level as well as detailed schedules.
- Develops lists of design, procurement, construction and post construction activities based on review of design documents, examination of site conditions and discussions with Owners, design consultants and contractors.
- Identifies major milestones, critical approvals and long lead procurement items.
- Determines reasonable schedule logic and constraints based on discussion with task owners and/or teams.
- Develops realistic activity durations based on production rates and available manpower based on discussion with task owners and/or teams.
- Assigns resources (cost, labor or material) to activities and develops cash flow reports and resource histograms.
- Evaluates critical and near critical path activity sequences.
- Assesses actual progress based on site inspections.
- Identifies schedule changes and trends.
- Develops earned value reports.
- Suggests corrective actions and/or develop recovery plans when delays are anticipated or occur.
- Reviews architect and contractor prepared schedules.
Prepares post construction as-built schedules and lessons learned reports.
Qualifications
Be able to communicate/coordinate in a team environment and drive meetings/conversation.
Seek necessary technical, programmatic, and cost information to complete a full analysis.
Be proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Construction, or other relatable areas is required.
Los Angeles, CA
22nd August, 2015
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