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 safe guards are in  place
• 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 change-overs

Reporting and record-keeping

• Provide standard record keeping and reporting functionality for area of work
• Accountability & 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 & 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/Certificate 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.