Engineering Technician

Location: Macclesfield, UK

Competitive salary and benefits

Opening date: 06/08/2024

Closing date: 19/08/2024

Join us at AstraZeneca, where we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. We're looking for ambitious individuals who are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do.

As an Engineering Technician at our Macclesfield campus, you'll be part of a team that supplies products for most of the AstraZeneca therapy areas for global markets. This role offers a unique opportunity to experience a fast-paced, dynamic environment while ensuring production levels meet given demands in a period of change.

Accountabilities:

You will deliver and sustain business objectives through providing engineering (Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation) expertise to maintain equipment / systems, resolving problems and implementing improvements, whilst always following GMP, SHE, and Financial requirements.

Hold responsibility for maintaining and calibrating manufacturing equipment and support systems in accordance with maintenance strategies and schedules of work. The manufacturing process takes place in a controlled GMP environment adding a unique rigour and methodical approach to the maintenance programme of work.

By providing good customer service and maximising equipment availability, you will ensure a timely response to breakdowns, and provision of effective customer feedback. Through systematic fault-finding and problem solving, you will strive to understand instances of downtime, improve availability through identification of maintenance improvement, and drive the asset up-time by detailed investigation ensuring the delivery of closure actions.

You will set up systems / equipment in a timely manner, and right first time in order that functional performance aligns with operational parameters and statutory requirements. You will lead formal and informal training of less experienced Technicians, and mentor Operators to improve asset performance.

Using lean and manufacturing tools (such as RCM, RCA and CBM) you will actively participate in and deliver continuous improvement activities and projects. Working with your engineering colleagues you will support change initiatives required to drive ongoing business improvements by ensuring positive and constructive communication to enable and establish effective team working.

Fault find using structured problem-solving tools to support the GMP, SHE or productivity investigation processes. Working within a highly compliant and regulated industry you will ensure that GMP, and SHE regulations are adhered to.

Essential Requirements:

• Recognised apprenticeship in Engineering (electrical or multiskilled) with a HNC in Engineering.
• Demonstrated delivery of results in a fast paced manufacturing environment
• Experience in Fault finding in electrical services
• Knowledge of the principles of work planning & control – able to plan and manage own workload
• Ability to determine the root cause of breakdowns and implement preventative actions to prevent reoccurrence
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing tools and maintenance processes e.g. 5S, RCM, TPM
• Ability to coach and provide training to operational teams
• Good working knowledge of computer systems such as SAP, Microsoft Word and Excel
• Operating knowledge of procedures and compliance with GMP & SHE requirements.

Desirable Requirements:

• IEE/IET 18th Edition
• 2391 City and Guilds Inspection and test
• PLC fault finding
• Experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment

Please note:

This position is internally aligned to SA91 Grade 10.

This role will involve working shifts and will therefore include a shift allowance. The rota will be discussed more at interview stage.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work five days per week onsite. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we're driven by our commitment to deliver accelerated growth and to make people's lives better. We thrive in our often intense and ambiguous environment, seeking out new challenges and working towards new solutions. We're part of an inclusive and giving community, supporting each other on our journeys. We're always working towards our ambition to deliver accelerated growth for AstraZeneca and to make people's lives better. By responding to larger patient populations and our diverse pipeline, we are driving commercial viability and rapidly scaling delivery.

Are you ready to make a positive impact? Join us at AstraZeneca, where your work means more. Apply today!

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