Randox Laboratories continues to develop disruptive innovations in Diagnostics and Healthcare globally. We are proud to have been named the Number 1 company in Northern Ireland for the second consecutive year in the Belfast Telegraph Top 100 Companies List for 2024. Our staff are at the heart of everything we do and achieve. We have exciting new career opportunities for a Maintenance Technician within our Maintenance team.
What does the Maintenance team do?
The Maintenance Team are responsible for manufacturing equipment, ensuring downtime is kept to a minimum and productivity is high through reactive and preventative maintenance. They are also involved in conditional monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives.
This will include using fault finding skills to identify and rectify equipment faults in a timely fashion while recording details and identifying root cause. Also, supporting in new equipment installations (including validation), and various improvement projects. Identifying critical spares, ordering and maintaining stock.
The manufacturing equipment ranges from new state of the art Filling and Capping machines, Freeze Driers, Freezers, Robots, Printing and labelling, to bespoke lines and older equipment.
Location: Randox Site 4, Crumlin, Northern Ireland. All sites, N Ireland and Ireland
Contract Offered: Full-time, Permanent
Working Hours / Shifts: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday from 08.40 to 17.20.
What does the Maintenance Technician role involve?
This role is responsible for the response of machine breakdowns and to identify the root cause, create solutions, and carry out corrective action as appropriate. This is an extremely varied role that will require you to develop a varied skillset, including:
- Carry out planned preventive maintenance for all process machinery and equipment. Revise and update Preventative tasks and schedule as required.
- Assist with Validation on current / New equipment.
- Maintaining technical documentation e.g., specifications, design drawings, design calculations, reports, procedures, and documents required by the quality management system and Maintenance Manuals.
- Identify repeat failures and participate in continuous improvement projects to improve performance or cost effectiveness.
- Carry out Risk assessment / Method statements and ensure all work is carried out within H&S Regulations.
- Maintain and support tasks on High-Speed automated equipment including state of the art Filling, Capping Labelling equipment, leading in design and technology.
- Review and update critical spares.
- Training and mentoring of others as part of continuous improvement.
- On call rota done on rotation.
Full on the job training will be provided on our processes.
Who can apply?
This role would suit someone with a NVQ level 3 or equivalent with 5 + years manufacturing engineering experience.
Other Essential criteria:
- Current clean driving licence.
- Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, drawings, catalogues, reports, and manuals.
- Able to work flexible hours as required.
- Experience with motor control systems, process controls, pneumatics and PLC/ PC control system.
- Self-motivation with the ability to use their own initiative.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Computer literacy.
- Experience of working as a Maintenance Technician, carrying out electrical / mechanical machinery repairs, fault finding and problem solving within a manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge and experience of preventative maintenance practices.
Desirable:
- Experience of similar process machinery (Filling, Capping, Labelling and Printing)
- Experience In a CGMP environment.
- HNC OR higher in engineering.
How do I apply?
Simply click Apply on the site you are seeing this advert on they will submit your CV to Randox for review. This advert may be open for as long as 30 days although we may close the advert early if we receive sufficient applicants to fill the roles.
About Randox:
An international company operating in over 145 countries that continues to have unparalleled growth, Randox Laboratories has been the heartbeat of the UK's National COVID Testing Programme throughout the pandemic. In early 2020 Randox recognised the threat from COVID-19 and, based on over 40 years of diagnostic experience, quickly developed a test to accurately identify the virus. Testing at scale commenced within weeks to support the UK's National Testing Programme and private clients alike.
Additionally, as a world leader in diagnostics for clinical healthcare, toxicology and food security, our expertise and product portfolio have assisted laboratories across the world in improving health and saving lives. Our global success is a result of our pioneering products and the commitment & skill of our workforce, which continue to grow exponentially.
Central to the Randox ethos is our drive and determination to improve healthcare worldwide and every one of our talented staff play a role in this. In order to serve our growing international markets, we require high calibre applicants with scientific, engineering, software, and broader business skills - including sales, marketing, logistics, finance and many more. Join the Randox team and play your part in improving the health of millions.
Randox Laboratories Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer.