Specialist, Reliability Technician

Bristol Myers Squibb UK & Ireland; Leinster; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension contribution

Family medical allowance

Life assurance

On-site gym

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb UK & Ireland is seeking a permanent Specialist, Reliability Technician for the Cruiserath Biologics site. The role involves planning and executing maintenance, preventative and predictive tasks, calibrations, and responding to unplanned events in a 24/7 shift environment.

The successful candidate will participate in continuous improvement, support major equipment overhauls, and ensure audit readiness with strong safety and quality focus.

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 6 Electrical qualification.
• 2–4 years’ maintenance/engineering experience in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Fluency in safety and quality procedures with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive, predictive, and calibration maintenance tasks.
• Respond to unplanned events with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure work orders are completed safely and on time.
• Record interventions and provide guidance for preventive actions.
• Support continuous improvement and training materials development.

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Teamwork

Safety & quality mindset

Adaptability

Independent working

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Level 6 Electrical qualification

Job description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

The Role

BMS Cruiserath Biologics is seeking to recruit a permanent Specialist, Reliability Technician.

Job Function

Plan and execute maintenance tasks including preventative, predictive routines, calibrations. Respond to unplanned events working with other functions as required. In addition, participate in project and continuous improvement activities. The role can be shift or days depending on business requirements.

This is a 24/7 shift role.

Responsibilities

• Work Safely – identify risks and put in place mitigation actions if required.
• Ensure that equipment failures or issues are responded to promptly and appropriately in a cross functional environment.
• Record interventions including failure codes. Provide guidance and solutions for preventative action where required.
• Execute planned maintenance routines including predictive, preventative and calibration activities.
• Ensure all Work Orders are completed on time and in a safe and compliant manner and asset management data is captured accurately.
• Provide clear and concise written and verbal handovers to colleagues.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives & identify improvements in job plan information and spare parts for planned activities.
• Support major equipment overhauls and manage vendors when on site.
• Support development of training information, cross train colleagues.
• Assist colleagues and other functions with tasks – i.e. set-up, sampling, cleaning validation activities.
• Work in cross functional teams where Operational Excellence techniques are used to optimise processes.
• Ensure the site is always audit ready, house-keeping standards are always adhered to & training completed on time.

Required Qualification(s)

The successful candidate must possess at minimum a Level 6 Electrical qualification.

Required Experience

2-4 years’ experience in a maintenance or relevant engineering role in a regulated manufacturing environment.

Required Competencies

• Exercise sound judgment in making decisions and recommendations with generally defined practices and policies and notify technical lead when necessary.
• Teamwork.
• Safety and Quality First Mentality.
• Attention to Detail – Following Procedures.
• Strong problem and thinking skills.
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Developing self and others.
• Flexible and amenable to change.
• Ability to work independently and remotely when required.
• Work with all departments and with all levels of the Organization.

Why you should apply

• You will help patients in their fight against serious diseases
• You will be part of a company that encourages excellence and innovation, respects diversity, develops leaders and values its employees.
• You’ll get a competitive salary and a great benefits package including an annual bonus, pension contribution, family medical allowance, life assurance and on-site gym

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https //careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People With Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [e-mail]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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