Jim Kelly

Speakers at Reliability Ireland 2025/Jim Kelly

Jim is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with IMechE and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland. Jim has 30 years’ experience in operations, maintenance, utilities, asset management and project management. Jim is based in Cork, Ireland. Jim worked in the power generation and petrochemical industries for 10 years, from 1991-2001, in Operations and Maintenance roles.

Jim joined Janssen Pharmaceutical in 2002, as maintenance engineer before moving to maintenance and utilities manager in 2003. In 2005 he moved to the green field Janssen Biologics Cork start-up, building and setting up the maintenance, utilities and facilities team. In 2012, he led a global reliability improvement initiative in Janssen pharmaceutical plants. In 2014 Jim became the Global Director for Asset Management in the Facilities Management Centre of Excellence; building a series of asset management programmes and processes to improve and standardise the management of facilities assets. Jim oversaw the transformation of asset management in J&J commercial sites to IFM service providers, as well as leading standardisation of facility condition assessments and capital spending. Jim then worked in the Engineering and Design group, leading the Industry 4.0 programme for Facilities Management.

Jim is currently a Project Director on a large Biotech capital project, leading the Commissioning and Qualification team, the Engineering Handover Documentation team, acting as Utilities system owner and Maintenance system user.