Shift Maintenance Engineers / Maintenance Leaders

Swindon
4 days ago
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Selexa Biotech Ltd are exclusively partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to engage and recruit a team of Maintenance Engineers and Maintenance Leads. To help strengthen the site and technical capability, as well as supporting various production & manufacturing suites, we are looking for experienced Shift Maintenance Engineers, as well as experienced Engineering Maintenance Leads (days) to support manufacturing:

You Will:

  • Be responsible for supporting a wide range of Maintenance Engineering activities across the site, responsible for delivering a robust manufacturing facility

  • Working on our pharmaceutical production site with production and maintenance managers to generate maintenance strategies for existing and future production lines

  • Ensure cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) is applied in the maintenance work area and aligns with cGMP through following site SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedure)

  • Engage problem solving and lean techniques, identifying root cause, and implementing correct maintenance, reducing waste & improve maintenance

  • Highlight good & bad practice, offer improvements, & complete documentation

  • Be responsible for ensuring all personal activities are reliably closed on time, against agreed targets – PPMs, deviations, change controls etc

    Required Key Skills:

  • A strong standard of technical skills of HND level or higher, with the proven track record of delivering in a manufacturing environment

  • Multi-skilled experience with a strong understanding of electrical control & automation systems ie. PLC fault finding experience

  • Strong leadership skills with good collaboration, communication and problem solving skills, maintenance planning and coordination (Maintenance Lead role only)

  • Strong and demonstrable experience across reactive & pro-active maintenance

  • Strong technical skillset underpinned with a recognised Engineering Apprenticeship and/or additional qualifications

    Selexa Biotech are recruiting for multiple roles onsite with Thermo Fisher Swindon – reach out if you would be interested in suitable opportunities

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