Shift Engineering Technician (Early)

Job Title: Shift Engineering Technician (Early, Late, Nights)

Employment term: Contract

Location: County Durham

Our client a leading pharmaceutical manufacturing company in County Durham is currently seeking to recruit a shift engineering technician to join their busy maintenance engineering team.

The main responsibility of the role will be to provide a comprehensive maintenance engineering service to meet the business and regulatory needs of the site. This will involve providing engineering support to the Production and Manufacturing areas (reactive and planned equipment repairs and continuous running adjustments) and will also support the Project teams on projects including, installation and commissioning and continuous improvement programmes.

The main duties of the role will include:

Operation, maintenance, repair and improvement of a wide range of manufacturing, filling, Inspection and Packaging equipment.

Day to day breakdown repair cover of production and plant equipment.

Maintenance support for project teams.

Equipment upgrades through continuous improvement.

Perform line and machine change overs.

Technical support for new product introduction, including equipment upgrades, machine improvements etc.

Operation & maintenance of Quality water plants.

Operation & maintenance of HVAC systems.

Suitable candidates for the Shift Engineering Technician role will have completed an Engineering Apprenticeship and ideally be qualified to HND level or equivalent in an Engineering discipline. Demonstrable maintenance engineering experience from a highly regulated manufacturing environment (Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Food etc) is essential, and a good knowledge and understanding of maintenance and fault finding on modern pharmaceutical PLC controlled machinery is highly desirable.

Please note that any candiates for this role must not be allergic to Penicillin.

If you feel you have the relevant skills and experience and would like to apply for this roles then please send your CV to us in confidence or apply though our website quoting reference J894.