Shift Maintenance Engineers / Maintenance Leaders

Selexa Consulting Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A biotechnology company in the United Kingdom is seeking experienced Maintenance Engineers and Maintenance Leads to support manufacturing at their pharmaceutical production site. The ideal candidates will have strong technical skills, specifically in electrical control and automation systems, and demonstrate leadership abilities. This role involves ensuring compliance with good manufacturing practices and improving maintenance strategies in a dynamic production environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering in a manufacturing environment.
• Multi-skilled experience with PLC fault finding.
• Maintenance planning and coordination experience for Maintenance Lead role.

Responsibilities

• Support Maintenance Engineering activities across the site.
• Generate maintenance strategies for production lines.
• Ensure compliance with cGMP standards.

Skills

Technical skills (HND level or higher)

Electrical control & automation systems

Leadership and collaboration skills

Reactive and proactive maintenance experience

Recognised Engineering Apprenticeship

Job description

Overview

Selexa Biotech Ltd are exclusively partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to engage and recruit a team of Maintenance Engineers and Maintenance Leads. We are looking for experienced Shift Maintenance Engineers, as well as experienced Engineering Maintenance Leads (days) to support manufacturing at our pharmaceutical production site.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for supporting a wide range of Maintenance Engineering activities across the site, delivering a robust manufacturing facility.
• Work on our pharmaceutical production site with production and maintenance managers to generate maintenance strategies for existing and future production lines.
• Ensure cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) is applied in the maintenance work area and aligns with cGMP through following site SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures).
• Engage problem solving and lean techniques, identify root cause, and implement correct maintenance, reducing waste and improving maintenance.
• Highlight good and bad practice, offer improvements, and complete documentation.
• Be responsible for ensuring all personal activities are reliably closed on time, against agreed targets - PPMs, deviations, change controls, etc.

Required Key Skills

• A strong standard of technical skills of HND level or higher, with a proven track record of delivering in a manufacturing environment.
• Multi-skilled experience with a strong understanding of electrical control & automation systems, i.e., PLC fault finding experience.
• Strong leadership skills with good collaboration, communication and problem solving skills; maintenance planning and coordination (Maintenance Lead role only).
• Strong and demonstrable experience across reactive and pro-active maintenance.
• Strong technical skillset underpinned with a recognised Engineering Apprenticeship and/or additional qualifications.

Selexa Biotech are recruiting for multiple roles onsite with Thermo Fisher Swindon - reach out if you would be interested in suitable opportunities.