Multiskilled Laboratory Site Engineer – White City (London)

Site Based

Summary:

• The Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for maintaining specialist laboratory, analytical equipment, and facility installations to support our Research & Development, Process Development and Translational team.
• They will be primarily responsible for equipment breakdown repairs & on-going maintenance work of laboratory & analytical equipment and associated utility systems.
• They will plan and complete a range of reactive & planned maintenance works associated within lab as well as supporting assessment, identification, ordering and maintaining critical spares.
• The role will predominantly be Monday to Friday, with a requirement to be part of an on call
• rota to cover out of hours emergencies & occasional weekend activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complete a daily health check of equipment and monitoring systems and ensure non- compliances are reported and dealt with.
• To provide responding, diagnostics repair & improving equipment, and handing back the equipment in a safe, reliable and compliant state
• To maintain the asset care plan up to date, and ensure suppliers and contractors are booked in advance to attend site to maintain, calibrate, repair equipment.
• Planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance.
• Using manuals and failure history to develop preventative tasks.
• Maintaining and recording reactive and planned maintenance records on to the CMMS and engineering library
• Providing operator training as necessary.
• To manage contractors on site, monitor, manage and review activities and subsequent paperwork and reports an archive accordingly into the engineering library.
• Provide liaison with engineering & building management team to ensure activities are performed effectively & safely and to address equipment and facility issues that impact operations.
• To own, manage and admin assigned engineering systems.
• Provide engineering support for wider project activities within the teams.
• Provide in house cleaning, calibration, and maintenance activities for equipment (e.g flow cytometers, plate washers, incubators, fridges, freezers, pipettes, etc).
• Support engineering team in implementation and maintenance and upkeep up CMMS system.
• Operate ERP system to raise POs, req, deal with invoices when work is complete in a timely manner.
• Own identification, risk assessment and plan implementation of control measures surrounding hazardous tasks related to laboratory activities.
• Own creation, implementation and training of emergency and on-call procedures to be followed on environmental monitoring systems & LN2 generation
• Support identification and storage of required spares, consumables, and tools for activities in the laboratories
• Managing stocks of critical engineering spares and equipment.
• Provide status and look ahead reports related to laboratories and equipment as needed
• Write, review and update maintenance SOPs and one point lessons for equipment and monitoring and utility systems
• Work within the GLP requirements
• Support site projects as assigned
• Providing support to Facilities, lab operations and Capital Project Engineering as required.
• Prepare chemicals & reagents for equipment as needed.
• Other activities as assigned.

Demonstrated Skill / Competencies:

• Knowledge and expertise working with laboratory and analytical equipment in a GLP environment
• Knowledge of current standards, procedures, and controls for GxP facilities and equipment
• Experience in GLP standard quality management systems
• Knowledge and expertise in utility systems from HVAC to medical gasses etc.
• Experience of managing and performing planned preventive maintenance
• Ability to provide diagnostics and first fix capabilities on a range of equipment system
• Ability to complete FMEA, create detailed SOPs and training end users on operations of daily upkeep of laboratory equipment
• Computer literate
• CMMS experience

Experience:

• Demonstrable successful track record of 3 or more years working in biologics, GxP laboratory or other highly regulate regulated environment.
• Working in a Pharmaceutical or other heavily regulated industry.
• HVAC, compressed gases, and integrated control systems knowledge
• Operating within the requirements of a Quality Management system
• Project management experience.
• Equipment lifecycle knowledge.
• Electrical, Instrumentation and Control system experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of engineering or Relevant engineering degree or HNC/D with relevant experience

Skills/Specialist knowledge:

• Working with small/medium scale analytical equipment
• Pharmaceutical utility systems and controls
• BMS and EMS
• Lab operations
• Excellent communication & presentation skills, written and oral
• Computer literate - Microsoft Office suite