Engineering Technician

myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking an Engineering Technician for their Macclesfield campus. This role involves maintaining manufacturing equipment, ensuring compliance with GMP standards, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a recognized engineering apprenticeship and experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Competitive salary

Fantastic holiday allowance

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in fault finding in electrical services.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing tools and maintenance processes.
• Ability to coach and provide training to operational teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and calibrate manufacturing equipment in a GMP environment.
• Provide engineering expertise to resolve problems and implement improvements.
• Lead training of less experienced Technicians.

Skills

Fault finding

Lean Manufacturing

Problem solving

Customer service

Education

Recognised apprenticeship in Engineering

HNC in electrical or multiskilled engineering field

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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Engineering Technician

Location: Macclesfield, UK

Competitive salary and benefits

Opening date: 20/05/2025

Closing date: 02/06/2025

Make a positive impact, in a team where it means more

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being ambitious, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person.

This is a fantastic opportunity as an Engineering Technician based at our Macclesfield campus. The site supplies products for most of the AstraZeneca therapy areas for global markets, and thus has phenomenal opportunities. You will be aligned to an area which is benefiting from large investment, and this is an excellent opportunity to experience this unique fast moving and dynamic environment whilst ensuring production levels meet given demands in a period of change.

In this role, you will deliver and sustain business objectives through providing engineering (Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation) expertise to maintain equipment / systems, resolving problems and implementing improvements, whilst always following GMP, SHE, and Financial requirements.

What You'll Do

Hold responsibility for maintaining and calibrating manufacturing equipment and support systems in accordance with maintenance strategies and schedules of work. The manufacturing process takes place in a controlled GMP environment adding a unique rigour and methodical approach to the maintenance programme of work.

By providing good customer service and maximising equipment availability, you will ensure a timely response to breakdowns, and provision of effective customer feedback. Through systematic fault-finding and problem solving, you will strive to understand instances of downtime, improve availability through identification of maintenance improvement, and drive the asset up-time by detailed investigation ensuring the delivery of closure actions.

You will set up systems / equipment in a timely manner, and right first time in order that functional performance aligns with operational parameters and statutory requirements. You will lead formal and informal training of less experienced Technicians, and mentor Operators to improve asset performance.

Using lean and manufacturing tools (such as RCM, RCA and CBM) you will actively participate in and deliver continuous improvement activities and projects. Working with your engineering colleagues you will support change initiatives required to drive ongoing business improvements by ensuring positive and constructive communication to enable and establish effective team working.

A good ability to fault find using structured problem-solving tools to support the GMP, SHE or productivity investigation processes. Working within a highly compliant and regulated industry you will ensure that GMP, and SHE regulations are adhered to.

Essential Requirements

• Recognised apprenticeship in Engineering HNC (or equivalent) in an electrical or multiskilled engineering field
• Demonstrated delivery of results in a fast paced manufacturing environment
• Experience in Fault finding in electrical services
• Knowledge of the principles of work planning & control - able to plan and manage own workload
• Ability to determine the root cause of breakdowns and implement preventative actions to prevent reoccurrence
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing tools and maintenance processes e.g. 5S, RCM, TPM
• Ability to coach and provide training to operational teams
• Good working knowledge of computer systems such as SAP, Microsoft Word and Excel
• Operating knowledge of procedures and compliance with GMP & SHE requirements.
  
  

Desirable Requirements

• IEE/IET 18th Edition
• PLC fault finding
• Experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment
  
  

This position is internally aligned to SA91 Grade 10.

Please note: This role will involve working shifts and will therefore include a shift allowance. The rota will be discussed more at interview stage.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work five days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

There are so many fantastic employee benefits that AstraZeneca offer! A competitive salary, private healthcare, a fantastic holiday allowance, phenomenal training and development opportunities, and much more.

So, what's next…

Are you already envisioning yourself in this role? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you!

Salary: Negotiable

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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