At a Glance
- Tasks: Conduct maintenance and support for medical sterilisation technologies, ensuring safety and efficiency.
- Company: Join Steris AST, a leader in medical and pharmaceutical sterilisation solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and a chance to make a real difference.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.
- Why this job: Be part of a team that keeps patients safe and supports vital industries.
- Qualifications: Vocational/technical background with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 35000 - 45000 £ per year.
How You Will Make a Difference
Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you?
Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries?
Do you care about keeping patients and people safe?
If so, then a career with Steris AST could be a great fit for you.
About You
Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you?
Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries?
Do you care about keeping patients and people safe?
If so, then a career with Steris AST could be a great fit for you.
About Us
At Steris AST we are the trusted experts in neutral sterilisation offering includes radiation and gas technologies.
We offer electron beam, gamma, X‑ray, ethylene oxide and vapourised hydrogen peroxide technologies for the purpose of product sterilisation.
Whether that product be a single use medical instrument, a hospital environment, cosmetics and toiletries, or food products, we make sure that everything that makes its way to an end user is safe for use or consumption.
Position
We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer vacancy.
This is an excellent opportunity to join the business at a skilled professional level and help us maintain and build on the excellent quality.
- Working Pattern
- Week 1 & 2: Monday to Friday 07:00‑15:00
- On Call Rota
- 1 in 4 weekends
- 1 in 3 night‑shift cover
- What Is Involved
- Conduct routine maintenance work, following GMP documentation standards
- Respond to plant breakdown, completing all relevant records and documentation to required standards – both outside and during normal business hours, as and when these may occur.
- Facilitate management of programmable logic control (PLC) and SCADA systems, in alignment with external support service provider and local maintenance management
- Carry out PPM as per the schedule and ensure reactive maintenance tickets are closed out timeously, with accurate data captured.
- Support plant breakdowns both outside, and during, normal business hours. Participating in on call where needed.
- Actively participate in the review and development of the planned maintenance schedule and TPM
- Review, trend and present plant failure modes, highlighting required investment areas
- Continuous review and maintenance of stock levels of critical spares
- Oversee and carry out installation and maintenance of general plant machinery and equipment in and around the factory premises, including forklift trucks, compressors and ancillary equipment
- Maintain plant ancillary item stocks in line with local service level agreements
- Update site related risk assessments for maintenance tasks and conduct annual reviews
- Fully utilise the CMMS systems, ensuring accurate data input, used to coordinate planned activities and fully log all maintenance issues and works updates
- Behavioural
- Be a team player supporting the wider site functions
- Have a can do, proactive mindset
- Customer First mindset
- Actively participates in One Team One Goal STERIS philosophy
- Facilities
- Co‑ordinate the contractor management programme on site, ensuring permits to work, method statements and risk assessments are completed, presented and managed during the planning and duration of engineering projects.
- Conduct internal auditing of systems and processes in line with planned preventative maintenance programme
- Develop and maintain processes and procedures for both maintenance and facilities, improving the training documentation and visual management systems related to engineering, in alignment with management
- Ensure that reactive tasks throughout the building are completed and be proactive in highlighting areas where improvements can be made
- Quality
- Conduct calibration activities, as directed
- Operate to GMP documentation standards
- Assist with defect investigations as and when required
- Attend and contribute to annual maintenance review meeting
- Leads annual maintenance review meeting
- Safety And Security
- Ensure that everybody on site follows safe practices, in accordance with Company policy at all times
- Immediately report any near misses, accidents or incidents to management in the prescribed format.
- Ensure that all external contractors follow site safety rules (RAMS and permits to work) as appropriate
- Assist with handling of radiation sources, under direct supervision of the Lead Engineer and/or Isotope engineering team (site specific)
- Trained to Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS) level
- Act as a classified worker (Environmental safety agency)
- Perform weekly fire alarm tests and quarterly drills
- Ensure the facility is continuously secure and a safe environment for employees to work from.
- Continuous Improvement
- Improve and maintain workshop and plantroom 5S standards, focusing on health and safety enhancements and visual management
- Support KAIZEN and 5S events
- Bring forward ideas in which efficiencies and improvements can be made to enhance the plant or facility.
- Perform regular Gemba walks alongside site management to identify areas of opportunity and always having eyes on the area of incident to make well‑informed decision making.
- Projects
- Actively engage in the site sustainability programme
- Actively participate in engineering enhancement projects, as directed
- Required Experience
- Vocational/Technical
- Electrically biased
- High School Diploma, GED, HNC, HND
You will have first class communication skills, be a team player and have the ability to prioritise your daily activities and solve problems quickly and accurately.
Knowledge and/or experience of continuous improvement programmes and the medical industry would be a distinct advantage.
- Knowledge of the following duties
- Lighting
- Emergency light testing
- Power distribution
- Electrical fault‑finding
- Small works – new sockets, new lights, new circuits
- PAT Testing
- Control Panel maintenance
- Fire alarms
- Sprinkler systems
- Water treatment/Legionella
- Pumps
- Motors
- Compressors
- Hydraulics
- General building services
- Welding and fabrication experience
- Knowledge of 5S and lean initiatives
- Knowledge of drives and conveyors
- Hydraulics and pneumatics
- Basic electrical drawings and design
- Basic mechanical drawing and design
- Equal Opportunities
STERIS plc provides employment and advancement opportunities without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender), sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic as defined by UK employment law.
The Company bases all employment decisions on merit, qualifications, skills and abilities with the intention that the best candidate is selected for each position.
STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Maintenance Engineer in Yeovil employer: STERIS
At STERIS, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a supportive and inclusive work environment for our Sterile Services Technicians. With comprehensive training programs, competitive benefits such as 25 days of annual leave and generous shift allowances, we are committed to fostering employee growth and satisfaction. Join us in a diverse workplace where your contributions are valued and rewarded.
