Operational Support, Engineer I

Work Schedule

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
The positions objective is to deliver site targets by ensuring the facility structure utilities manufacturing systems and equipment are maintained to a world class standard. The operational support group will assist in projects to deliver quality productivity safety and cost saving improvements. The primary function of the role is to ensure that the facility and manufacturing process continues to deliver world class products as efficiently as possible through effective preventative maintenance emergency breakdown response and continuous improvement initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The role of the operational support engineer is to ensure that the facility facility systems and manufacturing process equipment are maintained to the correct standard.
• Participate as a team member in multi-functional corporate site projects taking on ownership and responsibility in delivering actions and tasks specific to the operational support team.
• Use trouble shooting & problem-solving techniques to ensure any facility facility systems and manufacturing equipment issues are investigated & repaired in a timely manner.
• Complete & monitor essential preventative maintenance tasks
• Complete & monitor essential corrective work order tasks
• Update review and analyse department KPIs (daily/weekly/monthly) to ensure operational support teams performance is being achieved and maintained along with identifying improvement opportunities using data driven decisions.
• Work with other departments to develop and improve the current facility facility systems and manufacturing process equipment to help deliver change and improve key performance metrics & goals

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Good Technical knowledge of process and equipment facility maintenance
• Working knowledge of control systems including Siemens & Allen Bradley
• Practical experience of facility & manufacturing equipment maintenance troubleshooting issues within a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Good communication skills works across functions
• Result driven
• Team player and self-starter
• Ability to learn and develop current skills and behaviours to progress within the function and lead by example.
• Ability to set up relationships with current and new vendors to develop processes and system to drive continuous improvement within manufacturing process using
• Knowledge of process excellence techniques; lean manufacturing Six sigma and SPC etc.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIOS:

• Minimum HNC or City in guilds in an engineering discipline
• Experience working within a medical device manufacturing environment or cGMP manufacturing environment would be desirable but not essential
• Previous experience of working within team and delivering projects deliverables essential
• Experience of working and maintaining facility & process equipment essential
• Role could require occasional travel and out of hours working
• Role will require working in controlled environments e.g. Cleanroom
• Flexible work patterns

At Thermo Fisher Scientific each one of our 70000 extraordinary minds have a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular missionenabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.