Maintenance Technician Tredegar

About Convatec Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs.

Repair & Maintenance work is focused on maintenance of building and grounds of an organization, and the upkeep of equipment and supplies including:

• Scheduling repairs, renovations projects, waste reduction improvements, and safety inspections.
• Plans, budgets, and schedules facility modifications, including estimates on equipment, labor, materials, and other related costs.
• Negotiating with outside vendors/contractors for supplies, repairs, and capital purchases.
• Overseeing services related to electric maintenance, mechanics, hydraulics, carpentry and masonry, substituting, changing, cleaning, repairing and installing pieces, components and equipment.
• Ensuring operating requirements, building codes, and safety regulations are met.
• Responsible for repairs, adjustments, and ongoing maintenance of facilities.
• Performs electrical, painting, and/or carpentry repairs of fixtures and equipment.
• Responsible for the design, planning, construction, and maintenance of equipment, machinery, buildings, and other facilities.
• Conducts periodic inspections to determine maintenance work required.
• Maintains all equipment necessary to perform work.

Requires broad knowledge of operational procedures and tools obtained through extensive work experience and may require vocational or technical education. May require the following proficiency:

• Works under limited supervision for routine situations.
• Provides assistance and training to lower level employees.
• Problems typically are not routine and require analysis to understand.

Position Overview: The maintenance technician will be responsible for front line maintenance and break down response on a shift basis working a rotating shift pattern. This is a key role in maintaining continuity in production at our Rhymney manufacturing facility. The main objective of this role is to keep manufacturing assets safely operational to ensure that the production targets are met consistently through planned and reactive maintenance. Problem solving on a range of assets to fix failures initially then follow up to prevent repeat failures. The role covers a broad range of activities including maintenance, repair and continuous improvement activities on production equipment, chemical process plant, textile and conversion equipment, air compressors, boilers, chiller plant, HVAC, Building Management Systems, SCADA systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maximising the uptime of the Rhymney site by performing planned and reactive maintenance and continuous improvement of process and facilities equipment.
• Use of plant metrics e.g. OEE, plant downtime to drive continuous improvement of process equipment.
• Support the effective integration of new machinery/technology into Rhymney operations.
• Electrical and mechanical problem solving and fault diagnosis across full site.
• Responsible for the health and safety of themselves and others at all times during engineering interventions.
• To maintain the highest standards of housekeeping and GMP in all aspects of work.
• Ability to determine appropriate safety standards for new and existing equipment and methods of installation.
• Following training the applicant will be required to issue permits and host service contractors.
• Contribute towards electrical specifications to be included with machinery supply contracts and to conduct electrical safety evaluations on machinery and plant supplied.
• Capture engineering changes / modifications and oversee that all changes are updated to Convatec drawings.
• Ability to support maintenance strategies, controls and recording systems with regard to factory Mechanical systems, plant and machinery.
• Use maintenance management system to log and record breakdowns and corrective actions.

Skills & Experience:

• An understanding of clean room or controlled environment controls i.e. HVAC, Humidity and Pressure Cascades etc.
• Broad experience in Electrical Systems, Operations and Maintenance, with proven ability in the management of site infrastructure systems and services, such as: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems and controls, Fire Protection systems, LV Electrical networks.
• Fluent PC skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plus ideally MS Project, CAD.
• General Knowledge of 18th Edition (BS-7671) IEE Regulations.
• Knowledge of PLC’s and SCADA systems would be advantageous.
• Compex training/awareness desirable.
• Knowledge of CMMS systems such as Maximo.

Qualifications/Education:

• HNC / ONC or equivalent qualification in Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Experienced in managing electrical systems.
• A recognized engineering apprenticeship completed within a regulated industry.

Working Conditions: Working a 30% of the time in an office based environment, with the other 70% of time spent on process plant and in a clean room manufacturing environments.

Special Factors: Available to work on own initiative, as a team player with minimum supervision. Must be able to react to variation or changes to process. There could be an additional requirement to work Weekend.

Working Hours: This role works on a shift basis. The shifts are 6.00am - 2.10pm / 2.00pm - 10.10pm / 08.00am - 2.10pm. Call‑out coverage is also required and employees are rostered to work one Saturday and Sunday every eight weeks.

Equal opportunities: Convatec provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.