At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCEAbout you:
Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries? Do you care about keeping patients and people safe? If so, then a career with Steris AST could be a great fit for you.
About Us:
At Steris AST we are the trusted experts in neutral sterilization offering includes radiation and gas technologies.
We offer electron beam, gamma, X-ray, ethylene oxide and vaporized hydrogen peroxide technologies for the purpose of product sterilization. Whether that product be a single use medical instrument, a hospital environment, cosmetics and toiletries, or food products, we make sure that everything that makes its way to an end user is safe for use or consumption.
We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join the business at a skilled professional level and help us maintain and build on the excellent qualityWhat is involved
Maintenance
Conduct routine maintenance work, following GMP documentation standards
Respond to plant breakdown, completing all relevant records and documentation to required standards – both outside and during normal business hours, as and when these may occur.
Facilitate management of programmable logic control (PLC) and SCADA systems, in alignment with external support service provider and local maintenance management
Carry out PPM as per the schedule and ensure reactive maintenance tickets are closed out timeously, with accurate data captured.
Support plant breakdowns both outside, and during, normal business hours. Participating in on call where needed.
Actively participate in the review and development of the planned maintenance schedule and TPM
Review, trend and present plant failure modes, highlighting required investment areas
Continuous review and maintenance of stock levels of critical spares
Oversee and carry out installation and maintenance of general plant machinery and equipment in and around the factory premises, including fork lift trucks, compressors and ancillary equipment
Maintain plant ancillary item stocks in line with local service level agreements
Update site related risk assessments for maintenance tasks and conduct annual reviews
Fully utilise the CMMS systems, ensuring accurate data input, used to coordinate planned activities and fully log all maintenance issues and works updates
Fully utilise the CMMS systems, ensuring accurate data input, used to coordinate planned activities and fully log all maintenance issues and works updates.
Behavioural
Be a team player supporting the wider site functions
Have a can do, proactive mindset
‘Customer First’ mindset
Actively participates in ‘One Team One Goal’ STERIS philosophy Facilities
Co-ordinate the contractor management program on site, ensuring permits to work, method statements and risk assessments are completed, presented and managed during the planning and duration of engineering projects.
Conduct internal auditing of systems and processes in line with planned preventative maintenance programme
Develop and maintain processes and procedures for both maintenance and facilities, improving the training documentation and visual management systems related to engineering, in alignment with management
Ensure that reactive tasks throughout the building are completed and be proactive in highlighting areas where improvements can be made Quality
Conduct calibration activities, as directed
Operate to GMP documentation standards
Assist with defect investigations as and when required
Attend and contribute to annual maintenance review meeting
Leads annual maintenance review meeting.
Safety and Security
Ensure that everybody on site follows safe practices, in accordance with Company policy at all
times
Immediately report any near misses, accidents or incidents to management in the prescribed
format.
Ensure that all external contractors follow site safety rules (RAMS and Permits to work) as
appropriate
Assist with handling of radiation sources, under direct supervision of the Lead Engineer and/or
Isotope engineering tea (site specific)
Trained to Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS) level
Act as a classified worker (Environmental safety agency)
Perform weekly fire alarm tests and quarterly drills
Ensure the facility is continuously secure and a safe environment for employees to work from.
Continuous improvement
Improve and maintain workshop and plantroom 5s standards, focusing on health and safety
enhancements and visual Management
Support KAIZEN and 5S events
Bring forward ideas in which efficiencies and improvements can be made to enhance the plant or facility.
Perform regular Gemba walks alongside site management to identify areas of opportunity and
always having eyes on the area of incident to make well informed decision making.
Projects
Actively engage in the site sustainability program
Actively participate in engineering enhancement projects, as directed
Other
Carry out any other reasonable tasks as directed by the management teamRequired Experience
Vocational/Technical
High School Diploma , GED , HNC , HND
You will have first class communication skills, be a team player and have the ability to prioritise your daily activities and solve problems quickly and accurately. Knowledge and/or experience of continuous improvement programs and the medical industry would be a distinct advantage
Knowledge of the below duties; • Lighting • Emergency light testing • Power distribution • Electrical fault-finding • Small works - new sockets, new lights, new circuits • PAT Testing • Control Panel maintenance • Fire alarms • Sprinkler systems • Water treatment/Legionella • Pumps • Motors • Compressors • Hydraulics • General building services
Welding and fabrication experience
Knowledge of 5s and lean initiatives
Knowledge of drives and conveyors
Hydraulics and pneumatics
Basic electrical drawings and design
Basic mechanical drawing and designEqual Opportunity
STERIS plc provides employment and advancement opportunities without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender), sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic as defined by UK employment law. The Company bases all employment decisions on merit, qualifications, skills, and abilities with the intention that the best candidate is selected for each position. STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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