Maintenance Artisan: Production

2 weeks ago

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

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.

**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 minimize machine downtime.
- Implement corrective actions to minimize 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 optimization and replacement.
- Assist production staff with change overs.

**Reporting and record keeping**
- Provide standard record keeping and reporting functionality for area of work.

**Skills Required**:
**Background/experience**
- Trade Tested Mechanical and/ or Electrical 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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