Maintenance Artisan

1 week ago

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**Overview**:

- 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.

**Responsibilities**:
**Planning and Operational Support**
- 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.

**Engineering**
- Maintain calibration of machines according to SOPs and manuals, ensure machine safegu ards are inplace.
- 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.

**Accountability and Decision Rights**:
**Responsible for**
- Independently resolve issues and complex matters
- Escalate highly complex matters

**Decisions Relating To**
- Prioritisation and execution of own responsibilities within established policies, practices and guidelines, as well as established quality and safety checks
- Correction and/ or containment of errors of significant impact

**Deliverables**:

- Availability, reliability and functioning of production systems maintained
- Production downtime minimised and maintained at target levels
- Planned preventative maintenance carried out according to schedule, job cards and SOP at 98%
- Machines/ equipment repaired and maintained according to job cards and SOP
- Cause of machine/ equipment failures identified and CAPA plans implemented to address defects and quality deficiencies
- Defective machines/ equipment removed to minimise downtime
- Work requisitions completed, updated and maintained to SOPs
- Machines/ equipment validated for operation
- Workshop tools and assets maintained to standard
- Change-overs and asset change-over capability is to standard
- Assets operate at design utility consumption
- Changes implemented to improve utility consumption
- Documentation updated, maintained and filed according to SOP, and retrievable to support query resolution
- Cost savings and continuous improvements achieved

**Innovation, Creativity and Problem
- Solving**:

- Demonstrate initiative, creativity, problem-solving skills and reliability
- Work requires some problem resolution to non-standard and unique technical, operational and business challenges
- Demonstrate original and resourceful approaches to work situations including the resolution of complex challenges
- Independently resolve most issues and complex matters, escalating highly complex matters

**Requirements**:
**Background / Experience**
- Trade Tested Millwright, Electrician, Automation/Instrumentation Artisan with 3 to 5 years’ post

apprenticeship experience as Artisan/Technician.
- Pharmaceutical Technician experience will be an advantage.
- Manufacturing/FMCG experience essential.
- Experience in operation and maintenance of pharmaceutical manufacturing/ packaging systems will be advantageous.
- Experience working on highly automated lines.

**Specific job skills**
- Comprehensive knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards, and compliance requirements.
- Understanding of technical drawings / use of equipment manuals, P&ID, and Flow Charts
- Strong ability for fault-finding and root cause analysis.
- Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes, and objectives.
- Physically capable of lifting/ moving heavy equipment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of PLC and control systems.
- Able to do report writing.

**Competencies**
- Interrogating

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