Steam Mechanical Engineer in Kent

For nearly 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

Job Overview

• Rota - 35 Hrs per week
• Monday - Thursday 8.00 am - 4.30 pm
• Friday 8.00 am - 1.00 pm
• Out of hours callouts - rostered - 1 in 4 weeks (Paid at additional rate)
• Please note due to nature of role flexibility surrounding core hours is essential.

Overall responsibility:

Steam Mechanical Engineer to operate, maintain, and repair site steam-based systems. To ensure high-pressure systems meet safety, efficiency, and regulatory standards (e.g., pressure vessel compliance).

Core Responsibilities

• System Maintenance: Performing planned and reactive maintenance on industrial boilers, steam pipework, and condensate systems.
• Safety Compliance: Ensuring all steam systems adhere to health, safety, and statutory requirements.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnosing and fixing mechanical, electrical, and control issues within steam plants (e.g., steam traps, PRVs).
• System Optimisation: Improving efficiency and reliability of heating, cooling, and steam generation processes.
• Mechanical repairs and improvements to Company properties, both on a responsive basis and strategic basis.
• Mechanical tests and reports on company property and carry out the necessary repairs.
• Preventative planned maintenance and complete relevant job documentation.
• Respond to reactive work orders and complete, as necessary.
• Installation, repair, and modification of pipe work throughout site, both copper and iron.
• Responsible for the operation and daily testing of steam controls of site boilers (BOAS training can be provided).
• Responsible for the operation and upkeep of this site biomass boiler.
• Carry out feed water and boiler water analysis.

Qualifications and Experience

• At a minimum, City & Guilds Mechanical installation Steam qualification / or equivalent time served.
• Some IT literacy.
• Experience of working in a busy environment to tight deadlines.
• Maintaining Steam Boilers.
• Planned preventive maintenance HVAC.
• LTHW Boilers.
• Some controls experience.
• Good understanding of pressure system regulation.
• Installation experience.
• Fault finding.

About Charles River

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to fostering a sense of belonging and work daily in this direction.