Multiskilled Technician

Job Objective

As an engineering multiskilled technician you will carry out diagnostics, repair or replace malfunctioning electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, hydraulic components of equipment and carry out planned preventative maintenance in accordance with the preventative maintenance plan thus ensuring the plant is maintained to the highest standard . Be proactive by routinely inspecting equipment, cabling panels, to ensure they are up to standard.

Duties and Responsibilities

Unit Performance

• Carry out diagnostics, repair, or replace malfunctioning electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, and hydraulic components of equipment.
• Organise safe maintenance principles for regulating and scheduling breakdowns.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance according to the preventative maintenance plan, thus ensuring the plant is maintained to the highest standard.
• Assisting with equipment upgrades from external contractors and Management to ensure all new equipment is commissioned to the agreed time frame.
• Be proactive by routinely inspecting equipment, cabling panels to ensure they are up to standard.
• Perform effective troubleshooting and corrective actions to identify hazards or malfunctions and repair or substitute damaged units.
• Ability to prioritise reactive tasks in order of urgency and impact to business.
• Proactive in familiarising themselves with new machinery/equipment.
• Completion and adherence to current and future engineering systems.
• Problem solving, root cause analyses ensuring a solution for all required tasks promptly.
• Assist and manage contractors’ roles for electrical/mechanical duties.
• Ensure that electrical/mechanical activity in the production areas conforms to GMP standards and promotes a safe and healthy work environment through the continuous improvement of safety standards.
• Flexible working hours to cover the engineering, production, and project requirements.
• Support the Process engineer and your team in driving Lean/Optimisation initiatives using lean tools and implement initiatives across your area equipment and process in order to maximise reliability, utilising Problem-Solving tools including the 5 whys as a means to addressing the root cause of equipment problems.
• Ensure that equipment productivity (as measured by efficiency) is maximised through the continuous monitoring and trending of improvements and equipment availability (downtime reduction & increased uptime).
• Ensure that all activity in the unit areas conforms to GMP standards and promotes a safe and healthy work environment through the continuous improvement of safety standards.
• Day-to-day work is to be controlled and managed through CMMS.