Maintenance Technician — Troubleshoot & Improve Equipment

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexion, Dublin Bulk Drug Substance (BDS) Facility in Dublin is seeking a proactive Maintenance Technician to join our high-performing biopharmaceutical manufacturing environment. You will maintain, troubleshoot and optimise critical process equipment to support reliable operations.

This hands-on role involves scheduled and reactive maintenance, using CMMS and digital tools, ensuring compliance with EHS, Quality and cGMP standards, and contributing to continuous improvement and

Qualifications

• Significant experience maintaining process equipment in a cGMP manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform scheduled and reactive maintenance on process equipment per site procedures and GMP.
• Troubleshoot technical issues to minimise downtime and improve equipment performance.
• Ensure compliance with EHS, Quality and cGMP standards.
• Utilise CMMS and digital tools to manage maintenance activities.
• Support investigations, CAPAs, and process safety initiatives.
• Assist in creating and revising maintenance procedures, job plans and training materials.
• Support equipment installation, qualification, start-up and validation activities.
• Share expertise across multiple process technologies and drive best practices.
• Analyse data to identify opportunities for improvement and reliability.
• Lead and support Lean-based continuous improvement initiatives (Root Cause Analysis, 5S).
• Coordinate maintenance work by external vendors and contractors.

Skills

Maintenance on process equipment

Troubleshooting

GMP knowledge

CMMS experience

Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Education

Degree, diploma, apprenticeship, or trade qualification in Mechanical or Electrical or related discipline

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Alexion, Dublin Bulk Drug Substance (BDS) Facility in Dublin is seeking a proactive Maintenance Technician to join our high-performing biopharmaceutical manufacturing environment. You will maintain, troubleshoot and optimise critical process equipment to support reliable operations.

This hands-on role involves scheduled and reactive maintenance, using CMMS and digital tools, ensuring compliance with EHS, Quality and cGMP standards, and contributing to continuous improvement and