Title: Shift Engineer
Location: Basingstoke
Hours: Monday – Friday (6am – 2pm & 2pm-10pm weekly rotation)
Working as part of our Microbiology Division (MBD), within the Speciality Diagnostics Group, you’ll play an active part in helping us to achieve our mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The Microbiology Division discovers microbiological solutions for the diagnosis of infectious disease and detection of bacterial contamination. We serve public health, clinical laboratories, food companies, environmental screening and pharmaceutical laboratories with a portfolio of products that include culture media, antimicrobial susceptibility testing solutions and market-leading molecular solutions for food safety testing.
Responsible for providing ‘hands on’ engineering support to the Manufacturing, Facilities/Utilities and Lab functions whilst adhering to the site Safety and Quality procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support for purposes of repairs and maintenance.
- Undertake routine preventative maintenance requirements for manufacturing, facility and labs to improve plant uptime and equipment reliability.
- Development of preventative maintenance activities in conjunction with plant improvements and improved ways of working.
- Supporting where required specialised contractors carrying out routine and reactive maintenance tasks.
- Solving faults and failures in processing equipment including identification of corrective actions linked to unplanned engineering breakdowns impacting safety, service and product quality.
- Repair of faulty manufacturing, facilities and lab machinery and equipment throughout the site as required.
- Alignment to site spare parts and materials control, ensuring issuance is accurate.
- Full participation in safety reporting and site / department led safety initiatives and training.
- Understanding instrumentation calibration and adjustment across the facility, whilst maintaining validated specifications and limits.
- Support keeping the CMMS and other data sources accurate and current.
- Ensuring that all interactions and engagements are carried out with the highest ethical and professional standards and that all work is accomplished with quality and in accordance.
- Ensure the workplace is kept clean and tidy in line with 5Sprinciples, improving efficiency.
- Provide cover for all aspects of site support as defined within local procedures.
- Work on projects as defined by engineering management.
- Align with GMP requirements and company rules, policies, and procedures.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Post-secondary education and/or a technical trade certificate/apprenticeship/traineeship.
- Hands-on technical experience working in an engineering environment.
- Conversant with relevant standards and methods employed with calibration activities.
- Understanding of Quality Systems.
About Thermo Fisher:
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 110,000 colleagues delivers an unrivalled 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 .
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