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Plant Engineer

Kindeva Drug Delivery Company
Loughborough
1 month ago
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Our Work Matters:

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

Role Overview:

This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer who thrives on variety, solving problems, and wants to grow their career within a company that values innovation, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

This vital role, where you will use your knowledge and experience to troubleshoot and repair a wide range of complex machinery and systems, joining a supportive team where your contributions make a real difference to the overall sites performance and reliability.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Carry out maintenance activities as scheduled by the plant engineering supervisor.
  • Provide technical support/respond to emergency maintenance requests from external groups.
  • Responsible person for assigned legislative documents.
  • Provide a general maintenance engineering service to manufacturing & support areas.
  • Provide planned and emergency maintenance support (breakdown resolution, fault finding, planned and preventative maintenance) for site utilities and manufacturing.
  • Ensure all engineering activities are carried out to the necessary standard complying with safety, cGMP & company requirements.
  • Execute specific assigned projects & balance workload against priorities, as required.
  • Keep abreast of technological innovation & evolving regulatory standards.
  • Assist in on-going development of the site CMMS system.
  • Training & development of engineering apprentices.
  • Ability to work to the 5S principles within the workspace.

Skills & Experience:

  • 3+ years’ maintenance experience, with a knowledge and understanding of Mechanical, Pneumatic & Electrical systems in a GMP regulated environment.
  • Time served apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, HNC or equivalent qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, or Multiskilled Engineering.
  • Knowledge of: Health & Safety Standards, Manufacturing Plant, Maintenance Engineering, Formal fault finding, Generation and distribution of site utilities, and Control systems.
  • Understanding of maintenance practices including planned, reactive, and predictive maintenance.
  • Good understanding of GMP standards.
  • Computer literate, familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel

Key Capabilities:

  • Demonstrate ability to develop pharmaceutical plant knowledge.
  • Good organisational, interpersonal, and time management skills.
  • Enthusiastic, flexible, conscientious and proactive in approach.
  • Take a positive approach to own training and development.
  • Good decision making and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong verbal and numerical aptitude skills
  • Strong team player with the ability to work independently

What we Offer:

  • Company pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution).
  • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) plus service days after 5 years.
  • Company sick pay.
  • Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential helpline support for employee and immediate family.
  • Life assurance of four times life cover salary.
  • Wellness programmes.
  • Employee recognition program.
  • Free on-site parking.
  • Discount and cashback at many retailers.
  • Cycle to work scheme.

Additional Information:

Working Hours:Onsite – working across a 3-shift pattern which will require working days and nights.

Location: Derby Road, Loughborough

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

We believe our people make the difference at Kindeva, we look for skilled, passionate, and driven professionals to come and work with us to help us excel in manufacturing technologies and processes, which bring lifesaving products to patients worldwide.

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Kindeva is an Equal Opportunity Employer


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