job description - Maintenance Artisan: Engineering
- 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
Requirements
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 Mechanical 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 Requirements
Background/experience
- Trade Tested Mechanical Artisan (Fitter/Fitter or Turner/Millwright) with 2 to 4 years’ post Apprenticeship experience as a trade tested artisan
- Pharmaceutical Technician Certificate will be an advantage
- Manufacturing experience
- Experience in operation and maintenance of Pharmaceutical manufacturing/ packaging systems Specific job skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards and compliance requirements
- Understanding of technical drawings / use of equipment manuals
- Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes and objectives
- Physically capable of lifting/ moving heavy equipment Competencies
- Interrogating Information
- Pragmatic Action
- Maintaining Accuracy Aspen fully subscribes to the principles of Employment Equity and will make decisions in line with this ethos.
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Aspen Pharma Group is a global specialty and branded pharmaceutical company, that improves the health of patients across the world through our high-quality and affordable medicines.