Engineer II, Manufacturing Engineering
Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD)
Horsham, United Kingdom
Job Description
Title: Engineer II Manufacturing
Location: Horsham, UK
Shift: Monday - Friday (6am-2:15pm & 2pm-10:15pm rotating)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
Position summary
Support production including serialization & commercial equipment and other areas of the business, such as the Warehouse, with equipment breakdowns and overtime. Working to minimize down time, in accordance with
- Good manufacturing practice. (GMP) and Good engineering practice. (GEP)
- Following Standard Operating Procedures. (SOP’s)
- Responsible for own actions and deliverables. Manage own time.
Support serialization & commercial as SME, Represent engineering in Global Packaging engineering forums.
Follow planned maintenance schedules in accordance with equipment and regulatory requirements within the PPM schedule. Identifies preventative maintenance needs and addresses these.
Actively partake in training and other work to ensure continuing technical and personal development to meet the business needs.
Flexibility to work shift, core, nights and weekend when required depending on production demands.
Responsibilities:- To support the implementation and daily activities for serialization & commercial equipment.
- Is a subject matter expert for the designated field, represent the company at Global level.
- To continuously improve all packaging, serialization, commercial equipment, and packaging operations. Evaluate and analyze current process metrics and performance to identify areas requiring improvements. Analyze and find opportunities to reduce process variation, improve process capabilities and optimize process performance and rectify. Work with various teams to reduce process and business variations. Creates/amends procedures to meet new/changed requirements.
- Support audits, production and other areas of the business such as the warehouse with equipment breakdowns and overtime. Working to minimize down time, in accordance with
- Good manufacturing practice. (GMP) and Good engineering practice. (GEP)
- Following Standard Operating Procedures. (SOP’s)
- Follows planned maintenance schedules in accordance with equipment and regulatory requirements within the PPM schedule. Identifies preventative maintenance needs and addresses these.
- Manage contractors and equipment suppliers during site visits e.g. for installation, repair, service and calibration.
- Discusses problems with other team members, team leader and agrees course of action. Ensuring detailed handovers occur, participate at meetings and give constructive input.
- Actively partake in training and other work to ensure continuing technical and personal development to meet the business needs. Train and guide resources as needed.
- Responsible for own actions and deliverables. Manage own time. Working mainly on double day shift, with the flexibility to cover core, nights and weekend working when required depending on production demands.
- Delivery of projects, as a project manager or project engineer. New equipment installation, development & improvement, and assistance in associated validation work.
- Liaise with internal customers, machine suppliers to resolve machine problems, request / initiate supplier visits if required.
- Ensure health & safety procedures are followed i.e. near miss accidents, risk assessments.
- Light assembly / machine shop work. Electrical fault finding / PLC interrogation / Pneumatics faulting finding.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:- NVQ level 3, HND or higher in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, 17th edition or 18th edition wiring regulations
- Experience in serialization & commercial equipment.
- Diagnostics skills on Siemen PLC / HMI would be preferred.
- Proven ability to analyse complex technical issues to the fundamental level and propose practical solutions. As well as experience in driving continuous improvement and working within process industries.
- Detailed knowledge & working application of Engineering Standards.
- Good IT and communication skills with good people skills who can sell an idea.
- Knowledge and experience of utilizing and implementing CI tools such as 5S, Kaizen.
- Please be aware some travelling maybe required.
- To support the implementation and daily activities for serialization & commercial equipment.
- Is a subject matter expert for the designated field, represent the company at Global level.
- To continuously improve all packaging, serialization, commercial equipment, and packaging operations. Evaluate and analyze current process metrics and performance to identify areas requiring improvements. Analyze and find opportunities to reduce process variation, improve process capabilities and optimize process performance and rectify. Work with various teams to reduce process and business variations. Creates/amends procedures to meet new/changed requirements.
- Support audits, production and other areas of the business such as the warehouse with equipment breakdowns and overtime. Working to minimize down time, in accordance with
- Good manufacturing practice. (GMP) and Good engineering practice. (GEP)
- Following Standard Operating Procedures. (SOP’s)
- Follows planned maintenance schedules in accordance with equipment and regulatory requirements within the PPM schedule. Identifies preventative maintenance needs and addresses these.
- Manage contractors and equipment suppliers during site visits e.g. for installation, repair, service and calibration.
- Discusses problems with other team members, team leader and agrees course of action. Ensuring detailed handovers occur, participate at meetings and give constructive input.
- Actively partake in training and other work to ensure continuing technical and personal development to meet the business needs. Train and guide resources as needed.
- Responsible for own actions and deliverables. Manage own time. Working mainly on double day shift, with the flexibility to cover core, nights and weekend working when required depending on production demands.
- Delivery of projects, as a project manager or project engineer. New equipment installation, development & improvement, and assistance in associated validation work.
- Liaise with internal customers, machine suppliers to resolve machine problems, request / initiate supplier visits if required.
- Ensure health & safety procedures are followed i.e. near miss accidents, risk assessments.
- Light assembly / machine shop work. Electrical fault finding / PLC interrogation / Pneumatics faulting finding.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:- NVQ level 3, HND or higher in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, 17th edition or 18th edition wiring regulations
- Experience in serialization & commercial equipment.
- Diagnostics skills on Siemen PLC / HMI would be preferred.
- Proven ability to analyse complex technical issues to the fundamental level and propose practical solutions. As well as experience in driving continuous improvement and working within process industries.
- Detailed knowledge & working application of Engineering Standards.
- Good IT and communication skills with good people skills who can sell an idea.
- Knowledge and experience of utilizing and implementing CI tools such as 5S, Kaizen.
- Please be aware some travelling maybe required.
- NVQ level 3, HND or higher in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, 17th edition or 18th edition wiring regulations
- Experience in serialization & commercial equipment.
- Diagnostics skills on Siemen PLC / HMI would be preferred.
- Proven ability to analyse complex technical issues to the fundamental level and propose practical solutions. As well as experience in driving continuous improvement and working within process industries.
- Detailed knowledge & working application of Engineering Standards.
- Good IT and communication skills with good people skills who can sell an idea.
- Knowledge and experience of utilizing and implementing CI tools such as 5S, Kaizen.
- Please be aware some travelling maybe required.
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Job posted: 2024-02-08
