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Maintenance Technician - Manufacturing

Skipton
4 days ago
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Maintenance Technician (Healthcare Product Manufacturing)

Outline:
This is fantastic opportunity for someone to work with an international company within the medical and healthcare market. A highly respected company who manufacture a great range of products, looking for an enthusiastic person to join the Engineering Team, bringing across your existing experience and expertise to this great organisation.

The Company:

  • A well-established, very friendly, and highly regarded business!

  • Great range of products, found within hospital and healthcare locations across the world.

  • Known for investing in staff training and development across all areas of the business.

    The Role:

  • This role is based at the Head Office and manufacturing site near Skipton, North Yorkshire.

  • Working daytime shifts patterns, 4 or 5 working days within a week but no weekends (40 hour week)

  • You’ll be carrying out routine maintenance and other processes located within the manufacturing areas of the company.

  • In the role, you’ll carry out the planned maintenance of medical device manufacturing equipment; along with calibration, machine changeover/set-up, and breakdown repairs of mechanical, electrical and instrumentation that is associated with process equipment.

  • As part of the role, you will provide support to site Facilities as required.

  • It’s important that you ensure recording of all work activities within the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), while adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices to ensure compliance within this regulated industry.

  • You will deliver excellent service resulting in asset uptime, first time fix and quality workmanship.

  • Full initial training will be provided with ongoing career development.

    Package:

  • Starting salary of £42k

  • Pension Scheme

  • Holidays: 25 days plus 8 bank holiday (service days after each 5 years of service)

  • Private Medical Insurance

  • Free onsite gym

  • Other staff benefits

    The Ideal Person:

  • This role is ideally suited for an existing Maintenance Engineer with an Electrical Engineering background and qualification, who has also got some experience with mechanical elements of being a maintenance engineer!

  • You’ll need a minimum of 2 years’ experience of maintenance within a production environment and you must have a multi-skilled approach.

  • A background in manufacturing industries including any Medical Equipment or Devices, Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Chemicals, or Food would be highly beneficial.

  • It’s important that you have strong fault finding and problem solving skills, along with being an organised person who is able to meet deadlines and prioritise workloads!

  • You must be a self-starter, able to work on your own Initiative and be proactive in offering improvement, ideas and suggestions while working as part of a team.

  • It’s important that you have strong communication skills in both written and verbal form, and you are proficient in IT; you need a good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

  • Applications must live in a reasonable commuting distance of Head Office near Skipton, or be willing to relocate (no relocation package available).

  • Right to work in the UK is essential – no sponsorship available (sorry).

    If the above is of interest to you and you fit with the Ideal Person section, then please get in touch with us. We can the set-up an initial chat with one of our friendly team

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