Overview
As a Multi-Skilled Engineer, you will maintain specialist manufacturing equipment and facility systems to maximise uptime in a GMP environment. You will diagnose breakdowns, perform preventative maintenance, and lead continuous improvement across manufacturing operations. You’ll support facilities, validation, and capital projects, while ensuring compliant, safe operations and thorough maintenance documentation. This role offers hands-on problem solving in a fast-paced, regulated setting and the chance to impact site reliability and product quality. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to sustain and improve manufacturing performance.
Responsibilities
- Maintain specialist manufacturing equipment and facility systems to maximise uptime
- Diagnose and repair equipment breakdowns and perform planned maintenance
- Ensure safe return-to-production of equipment and keep accurate maintenance records
- Develop maintenance procedures and SOPs
- Support facilities, validation, and capital engineering projects
- Manage spares and critical inventory, and coordinate contractor activities
- Provide technical training and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
Key requirements
- Experience in pharmaceutical or highly regulated manufacturing environments
- Strong fault-finding and maintenance on production equipment
- Knowledge of PLC-controlled systems
- Experience using CMMS systems
- Background in preventative maintenance programmes
- Understanding of GMP, CAPAs, deviations, and change controls
- Experience with utility systems (HVAC, compressed gases, facility controls)
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- strong problem-solving ability
- proactive approach to maintenance
- team collaboration
- PLC-controlled systems
- CMMS usage
- preventative maintenance
Multi-Skilled Engineer (Mechanical bias) employer: Blackfield Associates
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