Multi Skilled Engineer in Slough

12-month contract, 37.5/hrs week

On-site White City 8:30am-5pm £23/hr

About our Client: Our client is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation, programmed T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.

Role Summary:

The Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for maintaining specialist laboratory, analytical equipment, and facility installations to support our Research & Development, Process Development and Translational team at MediaWorks. The engineer will be primarily responsible for equipment breakdown repairs & ongoing maintenance work of laboratory & analytical equipment and associated utility systems. They will help develop engineering processes and systems including asset management, maintenance, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complete a daily health check of laboratory equipment and monitoring systems and ensure non-compliances are reported and dealt with in a timely manner.
• Provide first fix responding, diagnostics repair & improving equipment at MediaWorks, and hand back the equipment in a safe, reliable, and compliant state.
• Respond to CAPA actions to ensure timely close out of all Quality issues associated with Engineering and Facilities.
• Support equipment validation as needed.
• Support control and monitoring systems.
• Deliver improvement projects related to control and instrumentation as needed.
• Act as main point of contact on assigned external service providers and manage their deliverables on behalf of the engineering team.
• Maintain the asset care plan up to date, and ensure suppliers and contractors are booked in advance to attend site to maintain, calibrate, repair equipment.
• Manage contractors on site, monitor, manage and review activities and subsequent paperwork and reports and archive accordingly into the engineering library.
• Plan and undertake scheduled maintenance using manuals and failure history to develop preventative tasks.
• Maintain and record reactive and planned maintenance records on to the CMMS and engineering library.
• Provide operator training as necessary.
• Provide liaison with Media Works engineering & building management team to ensure activities are performed effectively & safely and to address equipment and facility issues that impact operations at MediaWorks.
• Own, manage and admin assigned engineering systems as needed.
• Provide engineering support for wider project activities within the teams.
• Provide in house cleaning, calibration, and maintenance activities for equipment (e.g. flow cytometers, plate washers, incubators, fridges, freezers, pipettes, etc).
• Support engineering team in implementation and maintenance and upkeep of CMMS system.
• Operate ERP system to raise requisition, deal with invoices when work is complete in a timely manner.
• Own identification, risk assessment and plan implementation of control measures surrounding hazardous tasks at MediaWorks related to laboratory activities.
• Own creation, implementation and training of emergency and on-call procedures to be followed on environmental monitoring systems & LN2 generation.
• Support identification and storage of required spares, consumables, and tools for activities in the laboratories.
• Manage stocks of critical engineering spares and equipment.
• Provide status and look ahead reports related to laboratories and equipment as needed.
• Write, review and update maintenance SOPs and one point lessons for equipment and monitoring and utility systems.
• Work within the GLP requirements.
• Support site projects as assigned.
• Provide support to Facilities, lab operations and Capital Project Engineering as required.
• Other activities as assigned.

Demonstrated skills and competencies:

• E – Essential
• P – Preferred

Experience:

• Knowledge and expertise working with laboratory and analytical equipment in a GLP environment – P
• Ability to provide diagnostics and first fix capabilities on a range of equipment system – E
• Ability to complete FMEA, create detailed SOPs and train end users on operations of daily upkeep of laboratory equipment – E
• CMMS experience – E
• Experience of managing and performing planned preventive maintenance – E
• Experience of completing in house calibration on a wide range of instruments - P
• Computer literate – E
• Microsoft Excel - E
• Equipment validation lifecycle knowledge. – P
• Document generation and review. - E
• Knowledge of current standards, procedures, & controls for GxP facilities and equipment – P
• Pharmaceutical Utility systems knowledge – HVAC, Medical gases (CO2, O2, N2) etc. – P
• Experience in GLP standard quality management systems – P
• Project management experience. – P
• Electrical, Instrumentation and Control system experience. - P