Engineering Technician

Thyroxine SERB; Wales; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Discretionary Bonus Plan

25 annual leave days + bank holidays +

Maternity and paternity leave

Academic Study Assistance

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company dedicated to addressing rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure.

Day-to-day responsibilities include repair and maintenance of electrical and mechanical plant; safe execution of tasks; calibration support; sharing engineering knowledge; maintaining housekeeping; and using SCADA data to identify cost-saving opportunities while meeting production and validation needs.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in mechanical/electrical engineering.
• Ability to understand electrical and control schematics.
• HVAC installation and test experience is desirable.
• Ability to fault find and repair automated plant (PLC and computer driven) is essential.
• Steam generating plant experience is desirable.
• Water filtration and purification systems experience desirable.
• Ability to interpret and implement engineering standards on a wide range of plant.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day repair and maintenance of electrical/mechanical plant.
• Carry out repairs and maintenance in a safe manner and report unsafe practices.
• Support and carry out maintenance and calibration regimes to satisfy the planned maintenance system.
• Freely share engineering knowledge with the team to move towards a multi-skilled department.
• Maintain high standard of housekeeping everywhere at all times.
• Support the engineering manager in maintaining all plant to meet production, validation and project needs.
• Use SCADA data to identify opportunities to minimise consumable costs.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

HVAC experience

PLC fault finding

Steam plant experience

Water filtration systems

Tools

SCADA

Job description

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Category: Production

Location: Wales

Critical Needs. Immediate Action.

SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure.

We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed. Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention.

Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values:

• Patients first, alwaysPatients are not a concept — they are why we act, especially when time matters most.
• Impact focusedWe are agile, entrepreneurial, and disciplined - working smart and learning continuously to deliver results that matter, with the consistency, quality, and trust that critical care demands.
• Team poweredWe go the extra mile - together - because our shared commitment drives extraordinary outcomes.

Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies. Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide.

Broad Overview

Day-to-day repair and maintenance of electrical/mechanical plant.

As an Engineering Technician, some of your responsibilities will include:

• 1. Day-to-day repair and maintenance of electrical/mechanical plant.
• 2. To carry out repairs and maintenance in a safe manner and to report any unsafe practices to the Engineering manager.
• 3. Support and carry out maintenance and calibration regimes to satisfy the needs of the planned maintenance system.
• 4. Freely share your own engineering knowledge with the engineering team to move quickly towards a multi-skilled department.
• 5. Clean as you go – support the Engineering managers commitment to a high standard of housekeeping everywhere at all times.
• 6. To support the engineering manager in maintaining all plant in good order and in meeting production, validation and project needs. Ensuring all QMS activities including QEIO and Change owner responsibilities are carried out on time and to the required standard.
• 7. Support the team in minimising consumable costs using the SCADA system to identify opportunities via data analysis.

To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate:

• Previous experience in mechanical/electrical engineering.
• Ability to understand electrical and control schematics.
• Previous experience of HVAC installation and test is desirable.
• Ability to fault find and repair automated plant (PLC and computer driven) is essential.
• Previous experience of steam generating plant is desirable.
• Previous experience of water filtration and purification systems is desirable.
• Ability to interpret and implement engineering standards on a wide range of plant.

Company Benefits:

• 25 annual leave days plus bank holidays and 3 annual company closure days (to be taken between Christmas and New year)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Discretionary Bonus Plan
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Academic Study Assistance
• Employee Assistance Programme

Serb Pharmaceuticalsis an equal opportunity employer. We offer competitive compensation & benefit packages, challenging opportunities and a culture of working together in a supportive way built on our strong foundation of values.