Electrical Day Technician Pharma

Anderson McQue; Dublin; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Anderson McQue is seeking an Electrical Day Technician for a biopharmaceutical site in Ireland. The role focuses on executing preventive and corrective maintenance to maximise uptime of utilities, plant and equipment, and to ensure compliance with GMP and client requirements.

You will collaborate with the Maintenance and Calibration teams, liaise with contractors and client engineering, perform risk assessments, update maintenance plans, and support audits to sustain safe, reliable operations.

Qualifications

• Electrical experience (2+ years) on utilities and plant equipment.
• Familiar with GMP regulations and site EHS procedures.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings and schematics.
• Experience in preventive maintenance planning and CMMS environments.
• Knowledge of PLCs and control systems.

Responsibilities

• Carry out maintenance work as per schedules from Maintenance Coordinator and site procedures.
• Troubleshoot utility equipment problems as directed by site supervisors.
• Update maintenance documentation before and after tasks; complete MTAs.
• Coordinate with Contract Manager, contract team, and client engineering representatives.
• Participate in safety audits and ensure compliance with EHS rules.
• Review and improve PM content and frequency for reliability and cost.
• Support site during shutdowns and coordinate with external contractors.

Skills

Electrical experience

Pumps & HVAC

Maintenance planning

Reading drawings

PLC knowledge

Tools

PLC's

Job description

This position will be based on a biopharmaceutical site on behalf of our client, a multinational and multicultural company which provides great career progression opportunities to the right person.

Overview:

The Electrical Day Technician is responsible for the execution of the preventive and corrective maintenance program as per the Client/PPU requirements.

He/she will work as part of the Maintenance and Calibration team on a major client Biopharmaceutical site. He/she will liaise with the contract team, client engineering and equipment vendors to ensure maximum uptime of all utilities, plant and equipment, and that equipment is in compliance with all regulatory, statutory and client corporate requirements.

Duties include:

• Carry out work as per schedule supplied by the Maintenance Coordinator, Planner and as per site policies, schedules and procedures.
• Troubleshoot problems with utilities equipment as necessary and as directed by site supervisors.
• Complete site documentation before and after work tasks, as appropriate.
• Flexibility to work on equipment in all buildings.
• Work and interact with the site DES team.
• Flexibility to work around Maintenance Shutdown’s.
• Be familiar with all GMP rules and regulations.
• Be familiar with Statutory requirements.
• Liaise and work with the Shift/Day Maintenance Team on all Utilities Equipment.
• Liaise with Contractors during planned service maintenance.
• Participate in the appropriate training.
• Carry out Risk Assessment of Equipment Maintenance Task List steps and ensure these are always kept valid.
• Update MTL’s as appropriate.
• Carry out Periodic reviews of EWI/SOP to ensure documents are always current and valid.
• All work on site to be carried out in accordance with site EHS (Environmental Health and Safety) and company EHS rules and guidelines.
• Be responsible for ITP and ensure missing requirements are complete.
• Participate in Audits of the Mechanical rooms and follow up on actions.
• Ensure all tools and equipment are kept in good condition.
• Day-to-day relationship with company’s Contract Manager and contract team.
• Day-to-day relationship with client Engineering manager and representatives.
• Manage Technical investigations for utility operations group and implement changes that occur from these investigations.
• Complete Data Build on new equipment (create maintenance plans, preparing BOM, SOP’s, advising on rounds and readings for operation).
• Evaluate Electrical PM job plan content and frequency. Recommend and implement improvements to optimise utility reliability, availability, and compliance.
• Continuously evaluate equipment maintenance and failure history. Determine appropriateness of PM content and frequency.
• Execute PM program along with the rest of the team.
• Manage a program to measure and improve the effectiveness of the electrical PM program. Establish and evaluate effectiveness metrics to identify areas for improvement.
• Supporting site contract maintenance team in minimizing downtime and risk of downtime to facility
• Trouble-shooting and investigation of utility plant equipment faults and failures along with the Shift Operation Group, this includes the Fire Alarm Detection system.
• Introduction and installation of Reliability Centred Maintenance on all existing and future equipment.
• Updating of utilities related standard operating procedures.
• Identifying, liaising with, and, where appropriate, co-ordination of third party contractors and suppliers on site.
• Liaising with site projects team as clients engineering representative.
• Liaising with site contract team to identify suppliers and quantities of spare parts; review and updating of spare part inventory of spares in clients site store.
• Liaising with contract team and client to review maintenance programme, and effecting changes to methods and procedures where appropriate.
• Continuous improvement of contract delivery on site.
• Coordinating with personnel on utility requirements upon purchase of new equipment, movement of equipment, technology transfer etc.
• Identifying and implementing, where appropriate, energy saving schemes.
• Liaise with Quality and external auditing bodies upon audits.
• Ensuring Engineering areas, in liaison with Contract Manager and Contract co-ordinator, facilities and equipment are kept in a clean, safe and serviceable condition, and general housekeeping high standards are maintained.
• Manage the execution of the utilities maintenance program and organisation structure in order to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, useful life, and life cycle cost for utilities assets.
• Implement and participate in utilities reliability programs as per the clients Global Reliability Program.
• Drive local reviews of maintenance performance data using published maintenance excellence KPI results, areas that will be reviewed and improvements sought:

- Spares cost

- High levels of paperwork

- PM:CM ratio

- Maintenance man-hours per equipment/system

- MTBF

- MTTR

- Equipment reliability trends

• PM program content is to be reviewed on regular basis to remove non-value added activities’ and duplication.
• Develop long term (5 year) life cycle costing for asset replacement plans (equipment moving towards end of life).
• Ensure that the CMMS system contains the most up to date information regarding equipment data, spares and maintenance man-hours.
• Maximise maintenance wrench time utilisation through effective planning.

Required skills:

• Electrical experience, 2 years minimum and good understanding of the basic fundamentals of the various utilities systems.
• Pumps, HVAC Systems, Compressors, Boilers, steam systems and ancillary services, (DHW skids), Chillers, Cooling Towers, Clean steam Boilers, Purified Water Systems, CIP systems, Low /Medium voltage Electrical Systems.
• Good understanding of Preventive Maintenance Systems.
• PLC’s.
• Work within a Computerized Maintenance Management Work Order system environment.
• Experience with Facility Start Up.
• Work within a documented Permit to Work System.
• Ability to read and understand Electrical Drawings.
• Understanding of SOP’s and GMP Engineering systems.
• Understanding of Basic Instrumentation.
• Must be able to demonstrate hands on experience with detailed knowledge/skill in the following area’s:
• Troubleshooting / repair of Low & medium Voltage Electrical Systems
• Good problem solving and trouble shooting ability of motors/VFD’s, panels and Electrical safety systems
• Vast knowledge of single and three phase systems (Motors)
• Knowledge of Mechanical systems
• Team Player
• Attention to detail, methodical & analytical approach to work