Mechanical Technician

Would you like to work on the mechanical maintenance of pharmaceutical manufacturing lines?

Within this Mechanical Technician role, you will be carrying out maintenance on the manufacturing lines of their oral solid dose and packaging lines through fault finding and onsite reactive maintenance. You will be working with the CMMS in place and will be adhering to GMP standards within the factory.

Role Responsibilities:

·       Maintenance, fault finding and repair of all Production Manufacturing and Packaging equipment, such that production priorities are met and the equipment performs to its optimum capability and maintains GMP compliance.

·       Application of Good Manufacturing and Engineering Practices in all areas of responsibility

·       Develop, follow, review and update procedures, job plans, certificates and standards.

·       Setting maintenance regimes for equipment, implementing preventative, run time and reactive maintenance strategies

·       Supervision of external contractors and equipment Vendors

·       Modification to plant, manufacturing equipment and services.

·       Assessment of critical spare requirements, ordering parts, planning shutdowns and workloads.

·       Equipment failure reports.

·       Co-ordination and participation in the development of risk assessment and method statements associated with specified work.

·       Deviation investigations to define Corrective and Preventative actions and prevent re-occurrence.

·       To fully understand and comply with all relevant Site SOP’s, cGMP and safety standards.

·       Multi-disciplined, flexible attitude to team working.

·       Identifying and implementing change control notifications

·       Provide support to the production, technical and quality teams where required.

·       Operation of the Maximo CMMS

·       Advising on equipment selection, working with the Technical department to ensure robust solutions are implemented to ensure reliability.

·       Commissioning activities to confirm that equipment will operate in accordance with design intent and to ensure installation and qualification tasks are executed smoothly.

·       Support and development of Serialisation capability (including the management of articles).

·       Authoring Standard Operating Procedures for the setup and running of new production equipment.

·       Training Production Operators in the setup and running of new production equipment.

·       Responsible for minimising down time to maximise productivity by identify and implementing continuous improvement opportunities that result in cost savings and more efficient ways of working.

Skills/Qualifications Required:

·       Previous experience working within the pharmaceutical industry or similar industries (Food, Biotech, Medical Device

·       Knowledge and application of GMP and Good Manufacturing Engineering Practices

·       Experience with CMMS systems such as Maximo

·       Completed an engineering apprenticeship or similar engineering qualification

·       Multi skilled (knowledge of electrical, instrumentation and automation systems are desirable)

If this role is of interest please apply or contact Will Hay via email at [email protected]