Operational Support Engineer

ThermoFisher Scientific; Paisley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific in the United Kingdom is seeking an Operational Support Engineer to ensure facility and manufacturing systems run efficiently, delivering world-class products and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

The role covers preventative and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting and KPI analysis, with opportunities to collaborate across functions and with vendors to drive cost savings and performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC or City & Guilds in an engineering discipline.
• Experience in medical device manufacturing environment or cGMP manufacturing desirable.
• Experience delivering projects and working as part of a team.
• Experience maintaining facility & process equipment.
• Role could require travel and out of hours working.
• Role will require working in controlled environments such as Cleanroom.
• Flexible work patterns.

Responsibilities

• Maintain facility, facility systems and manufacturing process equipment to the correct standard.
• Participate in multi-functional site projects, taking ownership and delivering actions.
• Use troubleshooting & problem-solving techniques to investigate and repair issues.
• Complete & monitor essential preventative maintenance tasks.
• Complete & monitor essential corrective work order tasks.
• Update, review and analyse department KPIs to ensure performance and identify improvements using data driven decisions.
• Work with other departments to develop and improve facility, facility systems and manufacturing process equipment to deliver change and improve KPIs.

Skills

Facility maintenance

Siemens & Allen Bradley

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional communication

Team player

Self-starter

Vendor relations

Continuous improvement

Lean Six Sigma

Education

HNC or City & Guilds in engineering

Job description

Work Schedule

Other

Environmental Conditions

Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

The position’s objective is to deliver site targets by ensuring the facility structure, utilities, manufacturing systems and equipment are maintained to a world class standard. The operational support group will assist in projects to deliver quality, productivity, safety and cost saving improvements. The primary function of the role is to ensure that the facility and manufacturing process continues to deliver world class products as efficiently as possible through effective preventative maintenance, emergency breakdown response and continuous improvement initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The role of the operational support engineer is to ensure that the facility, facility systems and manufacturing process equipment are maintained to the correct standard.

• Participate as a team member in multi-functional corporate site projects, taking on ownership and responsibility in delivering actions and tasks specific to the operational support team.

• Use trouble shooting & problem-solving techniques to ensure any facility, facility systems and manufacturing equipment issues are investigated & repaired in a timely manner.

• Complete & monitor essential preventative maintenance tasks

• Complete & monitor essential corrective work order tasks

• Update, review and analyse department KPIs (daily/weekly/monthly) to ensure operational support teams performance is being achieved and maintained along with identifying improvement opportunities using data driven decisions.

• Work with other departments to develop and improve the current facility, facility systems and manufacturing process equipment to help deliver change and improve key performance metrics & goals

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Good Technical knowledge of process and equipment facility maintenance

• Working knowledge of control systems including Siemens & Allen Bradley

• Practical experience of facility & manufacturing equipment maintenance, troubleshooting issues within a fast-paced manufacturing environment

• Good communication skills – works across functions

• Result driven

• Team player and self-starter

• Ability to learn and develop current skills and behaviours to progress within the function and lead by example.

• Ability to set up relationships with current and new vendors to develop processes and system to drive continuous improvement within manufacturing process using

• Knowledge of process excellence techniques; lean manufacturing, Six sigma and SPC etc.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum HNC or City in guilds in an engineering discipline

• Experience working within a medical device manufacturing environment or cGMP manufacturing environment would be desirable but not essential

• Previous experience of working within team and delivering projects deliverables essential

• Experience of working and maintaining facility & process equipment essential

• Role could require occasional travel and out of hours working

• Role will require working in controlled environments e.g. Cleanroom

• Flexible work patterns

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds have a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.