Maintenance Artisan (Port Elizabeth) needed at Aspen Pharma Group

Description
Overview:

• Monitor, maintain and repair equipment and machinery adhering to GMP and safety requirements. 
• Plan and implement preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Ensure service equipment operates at optimal efficiency to meet planned levels of production. 
• Innovate and apply process engineering techniques to ensure optimal functionality of production equipment and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Operational Support
• Act as a technical/subject matter resource
• Facilitate implementation of current processes
• Identify gaps in current policies and procedures.
• Provide input into changes or improvements to processes, tools, and techniques.
• Train staff on SOPs and maintenance of equipment/ machinery
• Production Facility Maintenance
• Plan technical requirements and maintenance tasks according to production requirements to meet Production Plan
• Review and update maintenance schedules
• Perform planned preventative maintenance and inspections according to maintenance plan, job cards, and SOPs.
• Repair breakdowns according to best practice, job cards and SOPs
• Troubleshoot machine breakdowns to identify cause of breakdowns.
• Perform root cause analysis to identify cause of machine failures and quality deficiencies to minimise machine downtime.
• Implement corrective actions to minimise machine downtime.
• Isolate, remove and replace defective components.
• Complete and submit work requisitions; Create and close job cards.
• Maintain workshop, tools, and assets to standards.
• Determine and request required parts, materials, and special equipment to maintain machines/ equipment.
• Install, test, and validate machine operating efficiency.
• Engineering
• Maintain calibration of machines according to SOPs and manuals, ensure machine safegu ards are inplace.
• Identify and correct equipment deviations to avoid quality deficiencies; Reduce outsourced spending of repairs.
• Inspect service equipment and report status to Team Leader
• Rectify operational problems according to SOP.
• Communicate process and equipment deviations to management.
• Provide input into asset life cycle optimisation and replacement.
• Assist production staff with changeovers.
• Reporting and Record -Keeping 
• Provide standard record keeping and reporting functionality for area of work.
• Accountability and Decision Rights:
• Responsible for
• Apply advanced competencies and skills, comprehensive knowledge of technical, quality and regulatory standards
• Independently resolve issues and complex matters
• Escalate highly complex matters
• Decisions Relating To
• Prioritisation and execution of own responsibilities within established policies, practices and guidelines, as well as established quality and safety checks
• Correction and/ or containment of errors of significant impact
• Deliverables: 
• Availability, reliability and functioning of production systems maintained
• Production downtime minimised and maintained at target levels
• Planned preventative maintenance carried out according to schedule, job cards and SOP at 98%
• Machines/ equipment repaired and maintained according to job cards and SOP
• Cause of machine/ equipment failures identified and CAPA plans implemented to address defects and quality deficiencies
• Defective machines/ equipment removed to minimise downtime
• Work requisitions completed, updated and maintained to SOPs
• Machines/ equipment validated for operation
• Workshop tools and assets maintained to standard
• Change-overs and asset change-over capability is to standard
• Assets operate at design utility consumption
• Changes implemented to improve utility consumption
• Documentation updated, maintained and filed according to SOP, and retrievable to support query resolution
• Cost savings and continuous improvements achieved
• Innovation, Creativity and Problem- Solving:
• Demonstrate initiative, creativity, problem-solving skills and reliability
• Work requires some problem resolution to non-standard and unique technical, operational and business challenges
• Demonstrate original and resourceful approaches to work situations including the resolution of complex challenges
• Independently resolve most issues and complex matters, escalating highly complex matters

Requirements: 

Background / Experience

• Trade Tested Millwright, Electrician, Automation/Instrumentation Artisan with 3 to 5 years’ post apprenticeship experience as Artisan/Technician.
• Pharmaceutical Technician experience will be an advantage.
• Manufacturing/FMCG experience essential.
• Experience in operation and maintenance of pharmaceutical manufacturing/ packaging systems will be advantageous.
• Experience working on highly automated lines.

Specific job skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards, and compliance requirements.
• Understanding of technical drawings / use of equipment manuals, P&ID, and Flow Charts
• Strong ability for fault-finding and root cause analysis.
• Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes, and objectives.
• Physically capable of lifting/ moving heavy equipment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of PLC and control systems.
• Able to do report writing.

Competencies

• Interrogating Information
• Pragmatic Action
• Maintaining Accuracy
• Be able to work in a controlled environment for long period of time.