Day Shift Engineer

Ethypharm; Greater London; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £43,668.95 per annum

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Holiday Buy/Sell up to 5 days

3% discretionary bonus scheme

Bravo Benefits platform

Pension scheme

Private Healthcare for you and family

Job summary

Ethypharm is seeking a Day Shift Engineer for its Romford site. The role involves supporting maintenance activities and improvements for facilities and equipment to schedule, budget and GMP standards.

Responsibilities include investigating failures, driving continuous improvement, coordinating with other departments, and ensuring timely breakdown response and adherence to SOPs. The ideal candidate has GMP maintenance experience and basic electrical/mechanical skills.

Qualifications

• Analytical and troubleshooting skills are essential for diagnosing equipment faults and implementing fixes.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with multiple teams.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines in a GMP environment.
• Electrical and mechanical knowledge with hands-on maintenance experience.
• Experience with planned preventative maintenance and basic machining are advantageous.
• Knowledge of pumps, motors, mechanical/electrical drives, and PLC-based equipment.

Responsibilities

• Investigate equipment failures with line management and implement preventive actions.
• Support continuous improvement projects to reduce waste and variation.
• Coordinate with other departments for specialist involvement when required.
• Attend breakdowns promptly to meet the daily schedule and resolve issues.
• Ensure activities comply with SOPs and instructions and report deviations.
• Contribute to root cause analysis and risk assessments for area practices.

Job description

Day Shift Engineer
Location: Romford
Contract Type: Full-time, permanent
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Right to work: Sponsorship not currently available

What you will do

The Shift Engineer is responsible for supporting the engineering function, by ensuring that maintenance activities and improvement projects related to facilities and equipment are executed, to schedule, budget and in compliance with relevant codes.

Your key responsibilities include

• Work with Line Management to investigate equipment/plant failures and identify means to prevent a recurrence
• Be an active team member on continuous improvement projects bringing about improvements in working practices to eliminate waste and reduce variation
• Liaise with other departments offering specialist involvement when required
• Ensure that the daily schedule is met by attending breakdowns in a timely manner, and resolving issues effectively
• Ensure that all activities within the engineering function are undertaken to established standards and in accordance with relevant Standard Operating Procedures and instructions.
• Ensure that incidents/deviations are brought to the attention of line management
• Contribute to incident/deviation investigations to allow appropriate root cause analysis to be completed
• Ensure that all Risk Assessments required for your area are completed and regularly reviewed and actions arising delivered in a timely manner

About you

We are seeking a candidate who displays strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, good communication and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will have sound technical knowledge of the industry and equipment, along with the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Basic skills and qualifications

• Educated to C&G level 2 or equivalent in either electrical or mechanical disciplines
• Electrical and mechanical skills required
• Experience of maintenance engineering within a GMP environment
• Experience of planned preventative maintenance
• Basic machining using lathe and milling machine
• Welding using MIG, ARC and gas techniques
• Maintenance engineering within a pharmaceutical industry is desirable
• Knowledge of Pumps, motors and mechanical drives, electrical drives and basic electric diagnostics
• Knowledge of Operation of PLC based equipment

What we offer you

• £43,668.95 salary per annum
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
• Holiday Buy/Sell - an opportunity to buy or sell up to an additional 5 days' holiday
• 3% Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)
• Bravo Benefits Platform - offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle
• Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles with Tusker (dependent on meeting policy eligibility)
• Private Healthcare for yourself and your family (if applicable) with an additional Medicash health cash plan
• Pension Scheme

About us

Ethypharm is a leading mid-sized international pharmaceutical company, with strong European roots, that manufactures and provides essential medicines, with a focus on hospital care, central nervous system (severe pain and addiction) and internal medicine.

Ethypharm has 1,700 employees dedicated to its various pharmaceutical activities, of which 1,400 are in industrial operations. Our six production sites located in France, the UK, Spain, and China have expertise in injectables and complex oral solid forms.

At Ethypharm, you will be a part of a team dedicated and committed to improving patients' lives.

Our Romford facility located 20 miles from the centre of London, consists of over 6,700 square metres of a high-quality, modern pharmaceutical facility where we mix, fill, sterilise, inspect, pack, and label a wide range of medicines.