Maintenance Artisan

1 week ago


Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time
Job title : Maintenance Artisan (Contract) (Port Elizabeth)Job Location : Eastern Cape, Port ElizabethDeadline : April 21, 2025Quick Recommended Links
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Description

  • 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 safeguards 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 changeovers

Reporting and record-keeping

  • Provide standard record keeping and reporting functionality for area of work

Skills Required

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
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