Instrument Technician

ZipRecruiter; Thornaby-on-Tees; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading contract manufacturing company in the Pharma/Chemical industries is seeking a Permanent Instruments Technician. This role involves instrument maintenance, ensuring site reliability, and adherence to safety standards. The position offers a competitive salary and is ideal for individuals who thrive in a technical environment.

Benefits

Quarterly incentive bonus

Call out rota

Overtime opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance, calibration, and testing of various instrumented systems.
• Familiar with using computers for maintenance tasks.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Environmental, Health & Safety requirements.
• Complete scheduled maintenance as per the company maintenance plan.
• Identify and rectify equipment defects.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication

Self-motivated

KPI focused

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

Job Description

My client is a contract manufacturing company within the Pharma / Chemical industries based on Seal Sands. They are looking for a Permanent Instruments Technician working days only, 8-4. The role pays £39,330.00, with call out rota, OT, and quarterly incentive bonus. The technician will be responsible for instrument maintenance work on site, including planned, preventive, and reactive activities.

This role ensures that site reliability and integrity are maintained to the required legal and company standards. It will be carried out as part of a shift team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all Environmental, Health & Safety requirements are met during the execution of maintenance tasks.
• Report any accidents or near misses as required by our health and safety policy.
• Raise relevant work permit requests. Accept and follow the permit, isolation procedures, and other related safe systems of work to complete the task.
• Complete and/or contribute to risk assessments associated with all maintenance duties expected for the role.
• Complete scheduled maintenance as per the company maintenance plan to support the running of the production site.
• Identify and rectify equipment defects related to your specific trade.

Skills Required:

• Highly driven and self-motivated, KPI focused.
• Enjoys working under pressure in a manufacturing setting.
• Good organizational skills.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable working in highly technical or shopfloor environments.
• Experience in maintenance, calibration, and testing of temperature, pressure, flow, level & analyser instrumented systems, and other miscellaneous plant instrumentation.
• Familiar with using computers for allocating, receiving, and signing off maintenance work.