Maintenance Engineer

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join the business at professional level to support our IP sites.

Working Pattern
- 40 hours/week, 8-hour shifts, flexible schedule (7am-5pm).
- On-call support with potential night shift coverage (1 in 5 weekends).
- Based in Chesterfield, with travel to other Northern facilities as needed.

What is involved?
- Ensure all building plant services and machines are maintained and repaired.
- Fault find on engineering plant, including voltage systems, steam raising plant, building services controls, heating and ventilation, control systems, compressed air systems, lighting, fire detection, steam sterilizers, and instruments washers.
- Ensure effective and timely maintenance, test inspection, and repairs for all plant and equipment associated with facilities and the decontamination process.
- Provide technical support and leadership to oversee the work of all third-party contractors and service engineers.
- Perform weekly tests to maintain sterilizers/washers in accordance with HTM 01-01.
- Inform the Regional Engineering Manager of any changes in machine cycle profile and resulting maintenance.
- Ensure all machinery is serviced before quarterly and annual validation.
- Facilitate the scheduling of yearly maintenance/validation of all plant equipment.
- Ensure that all machinery and plant equipment meet the requirements of the Medical Devices Directive.
- Maintain all validation/calibration certification required for MDD registration.
- Maintain spare parts and tools store and advise the Regional Engineering Manager on stock level replenishment.
- Carry out any other PPM weekly maintenance/inspection as scheduled in the plant maintenance schedule supporting the quality management system.
- Work autonomously by utilising the works management system to allocate PPM and reactive requests.
- Plan and organise major planned works, service interruptions, and other maintenance activities.
- Participate on an on-call rota.
- Travel to other sites and locations within the Group.
- Participate as an integral member of the sterile processing team and actively contribute to suggestions of innovation, continuous improvement, and best practice.
- Actively participate in staff development and training initiatives.
- Actively participate in the Synergy Health Performance Management System.
- Undertake any other duties or tasks as reasonably required.

Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you passionate about helping our incredible national health service make a difference? Do you care about keeping vulnerable patients safe? If so, then a career with STERIS Instrument Processing (IP) could be a great fit for you., Must be apprentice trained engineer or equivalent
- Must have 2 years Engineering experience within Facilities or Manufacturing
- Mechanical or electrical trained/qualified
- Must have full UK Driving license, Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

At STERIS Instrument Processing (IP) we are the trusted experts in surgical instrument sterilisation. We offer on and offsite re-processing, alongside reliable instrument maintenance solutions. Our diverse and talented teams use cutting edge technology to ensure that the highest quality of infection prevention is delivered to our customers.