Maintenance Technician

At Convatec, we're transforming our business for the better. Better products. Better ways of working. And better ways of delivering for our customers and each other. We're aiming for nothing short of excellence. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Collections Analyst and you'll do the same. Your Key Responsibilities will include the following :

• Adhere to all company Health & Safety policies and practice.
• Perform reactive and proactive maintenance on a variety of packaging and process equipment.
• Carry out regular maintenance, PPMs and reactive, where directed.
• Troubleshoot breakdowns across a range of equipment to provide minimal downtime.
• Support Line Leaders and Production to facilitate production efficiency.
• Maintain documentation to provide historical records of breakdowns and PPMs.
• Ensure all required paperwork is kept maintained and up to date throughout the department.
• Identify spares requirements and maintain stock levels as needed.
• Operate in a safe manner, always ensuring, any risk to self and others, is kept to a minimum.
• Work with production to facilitate optimum running time of lines.
• Communicate technical & operational issues, quickly & effectively to relevant departments.
• Attend maintenance handover meetings. Update Maintenance Information boards, communicate all information regarding work completed, lessons learned and handover requirements.
• Lead projects and improvements and meet due dates.
• Identify and implement productivity and continuous improvements to enhance machine/process performance, and to improve business efficiencies.
  
  Time Served Apprentice
• Mechanical and electrical skills
• ONC/HNC/NVQ Level 3 Engineering and Maintenance
• Experience of processing, packaging machines
• PLC and inspection camera system knowledge
• 18th Edition wiring regulations
• Production or Process Maintenance Engineering experience in a complex manufacturing organization within fast-paced manufacturing environments
• Ability to diagnose and rectify PLC and controls issues throughout the business.
• Experience of inverter, servo, DC drives
• Worked with circuits from 415 to 24VDC power & control.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse technical problems, develop appropriate solutions and implement those solutions through effective business plans.
• Understanding of mechanical and electrical aspects of engineering
• Broad knowledge and understanding of production and engineering challenge to the MedTech or Pharmaceutical industry and associate regulations.
• Must be flexible with the ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Must demonstrate a sense of urgency.
• Proficiency in standard software applications used within ConvaTec i.e., Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint), SAP
• Ability to work to engineering drawings but also have the ability to fault find and diagnose faults without using engineering drawings., Craft technician qualifications i.e., NVQ 4, specified PLC qualification, C&G, ONC/HNC, BTEC in an appropriate Engineering Discipline, or equivalent.
  
  Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec's revenues in 2023 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com