Maintenance Engineer

Michael Page (UK); Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and rapidly growing pharmaceutical company, where you'll play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing production machinery. This position offers the chance to work in a highly regulated environment, focusing on continuous improvement and safety. As part of a collaborative team, you'll engage in troubleshooting and implementing innovative solutions that drive efficiency and reliability. With a competitive salary and a range of benefits, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking organization committed to excellence in healthcare products.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Bonus scheme

Generous pension scheme

Holidays

Ongoing training and development

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering maintenance in a regulated environment.
• COMPEX certification and knowledge of regulations are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Install, maintain, and modify electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Develop cost-effective solutions to improve machinery efficiency.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Customer service

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

ONC level qualification in engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Database management systems

Job description

• Become an integral part of a growing organisation.
• Play a key role in delivering life changing health care products.

About Our Client

• The client is one of Europe's fastest growing pharmaceutical companies.
• One of the largest market footprints of any European generic and biosimilars companies selling generic medicines in over 80 countries around the world.

Job Description

• Following planned schedules and troubleshooting reactive repairs, your work will include installation, commissioning, maintenance and modification of electrical and mechanical equipment and site service systems across the pharmaceutical production cycle, in-line with business needs.
• With a focus on Continuous Improvement, you'll also develop and implement cost-effective solutions to improve machinery efficiency, reliability and performance to minimise downtime.
• To complete your work in an efficient manner and deliver high quality results, you'll liaise with contractors, engineering specialists, manufacturers and parts suppliers, as required.
• Valuing safety and quality, maintaining high levels of compliance is central to all you do.
• With a strong understanding of relevant corporate, statutory and good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements, you observe all required regulations and guidelines, including: environmental, health and safety (EHS), OPEX and process/validation compliance standards through strict adherence to any risk assessment, provision and use of work equipment regulations (PUWER), Lockout-Tagout-Verify (LTV) and manual handling.
• Taking pride in your work, you provide an excellent level of customer service at all times, support and mentor your colleagues (including performing effective shift handovers) and work collaboratively with other departments (e.g. Production, Quality), as required.

The Successful Applicant

• Experience in a similar engineering maintenance role, ideally in a highly regulated 'clean room' environment.
• A natural problem-solver, you take a creative yet disciplined approach to your work, able to adapt to changing priorities and always keen to learn.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills (in written and spoken English); can relate to colleagues at all levels of authority and navigate cultural differences with ease.
• Works well on own initiative through a strong attention to detail and time management skills, but comfortable in a team, working together to deliver objectives or projects.
• Good numeracy skills with a commercial mindset, and equally good IT skills - comfortable working with databases, work-based systems and using the Microsoft Office suite.
• Holds an engineering apprenticeship or minimum of an ONC level qualification in a relevant engineering discipline, with good knowledge of current regulations.
• COMPEX certification, experience working in ATEX areas and on ATEX certified equipment and an understanding of OPEX objectives and processes would also be beneficial.

What's on Offer

In return, we offer a competitive salary package (with bonus scheme), a generous pension scheme, holidays and offer a range of other benefits to support our team. Not to mention the opportunity to be part of a progressive and expanding business with increasing global reach, and the support of ongoing training and development.