Engineering Technician

Work Schedule

Other

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards、 Cold Room/Freezers -22degrees、 Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Technician

Location: Horsham

Shift: Monday - Friday (6am-2:15pm & 2pm-10:15pm rotating)

Position summary:

Based at our Horsham site this role supports production including serialization & commercial equipment and other areas of the business, such as the Warehouse, with equipment breakdowns and overtime. Working to minimize down time, in accordance with

• Good manufacturing practice. (GMP) and Good engineering practice. (GEP).
• Following Standard Operating Procedures. (SOP’s).
• Responsible for own actions and deliverables. Manage own time.

Follow planned maintenance schedules in accordance with equipment and regulatory requirements within the PPM schedule. Identifies preventative maintenance needs and addresses these.

Actively partake in training and other work to ensure continuing technical and personal development to meet the business needs.

Flexibility to work shift, core, nights and weekend when required depending on production demands.

Responsibilities:

• To continuously improve all packaging, serialization, commercial equipment, and packaging operations. Evaluate and analyze current process metrics and performance to identify areas requiring improvements. Analyze and find opportunities to reduce process variation, improve process capabilities and optimize process performance and rectify. Work with various teams to reduce process and business variations. Creates/amends procedures to meet new/changed requirements.
• Good manufacturing practice. (GMP) and Good engineering practice. (GEP).
• Following Standard Operating Procedures. (SOP’s).
• Follows planned maintenance schedules in accordance with equipment and regulatory requirements within the PPM schedule. Identifies preventative maintenance needs and addresses these.
• Discusses problems with other team members, team leader and agrees course of action. Ensuring detailed handovers occur, participate at meetings and give constructive input.
• Actively partake in training and other work to ensure continuing technical and personal development to meet the business needs. Train and guide resources as needed.
• Responsible for managing and completing assigned work. Working mainly on double day shift, with the flexibility to cover core, nights and weekend working when required depending on production demands.
• Delivery of projects, as a project manager or project engineer. New equipment installation, development & improvement, and assistance in associated validation work.
• Liaise with internal customers, machine suppliers to resolve machine problems, request / initiate supplier visits if required.
• Ensure health & safety procedures are followed i.e. near miss accidents, risk assessments.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• NVQ level 3, HND or higher in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, 17th edition or 18th edition wiring regulations.
• Proven ability to analyse complex technical issues to the fundamental level and propose practical solutions. As well as experience in driving continuous improvement and working within process industries.
• Detailed knowledge & working application of Engineering Standards.
• Knowledge and experience of utilising and implementing CI tools such as 5S, Kaizen, etc!
• Please be aware some travelling maybe required.

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