Job Description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Job Profile Title: Engineer II, Manufacturing Engineering

Direct Report To: Manufacturing Engineer Manager

Band: 5

Career Track: Professional Position

Location: Loughborough

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Loughborough

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

Join our manufacturing engineering team and make a meaningful impact on advanced technology and processes. As an Engineer II in Manufacturing Engineering, you'll support continuous improvement, ensure quality standards, and optimize production processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Lead technical projects and provide manufacturing support to help deliver innovative solutions that enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

You will participate in new product introductions, process improvements, and equipment optimization initiatives. Using data-driven approaches and lean methodologies, you'll identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain the highest quality standards. Work closely with operations, quality, maintenance, R&D, and other teams to implement sustainable solutions that drive manufacturing excellence.

Our site:

At our sites in Loughborough, Thermo Fisher Scientific are forging partnerships that are transforming the industry.  We are pioneering solutions that are driven by client needs. To help enable us to strengthen and further develop the technical capability within our manufacturing suites, we are seeking Maintenance Engineers to join our growing site.

How you will make an impact:

In this role you will be participating a wide range of maintenance engineering activities throughout our production footprint. You will engage with colleagues at multiple levels and from several subject areas, to work together to ensure we deliver an exciting and robust production facility to our clients. You will take part and take accountability for maintenance activities (planned and unplanned), utilising operational excellence and continuous improvement activities. With the aim of improving equipment reliability and ensuring minimal equipment downtime.

What you’ll do

During maintenance incidents, you will effectively engage problem solving and lean manufacturing techniques. Identifying the true root cause of the issue – and implement the corrective actions. Wider, we will drive improvements across the maintenance team to improve efficiency, hold high standards of 5S, eliminating or reducing waste and/or non-value add activities. This gives you the opportunity to actively participating in upgrading and improving equipment or engaging in projects.

• The team will complete important documentation, including highlighting errors or bad practices and making suggestions for improvements. Leading the progression of documentation (e.g. Change Controls, Validation documents, etc) through to completion.
• Utilising external resource where appropriate, you will acquire services/components. Generating, completing (with approvals) the appropriate documentation (e.g. Purchase Orders, spares requests, quotations, etc).
• You will have awareness of, and control spares in an efficient manner.
• Holding accountability and responsibility for ensuring all personal activities are reliably closed on time, against agreed targets (e.g. PPM, Deviations, Change Controls, Training, etc). Where required, you will complete training to ensure a current aseptic license is kept up to date.
• You will write clear and accurate maintenance instructions. Where appropriate you will assist with the organising and delivering of training and / or instruction of engineering and non-engineering staff.
• On occasion, providing cover for team members, including Technical Specialists and Engineering Coordinators as defined (e.g., point of contact).
• For this role is it important to understand emergency procedures and follow safe systems of work. There is an expectation you will ensure compliance with EHS and security policies and procedures, rules, signage and instructions at all times. In addition, you will conduct timely report

What we need from you:

• We are searching for a multi-skilled engineer with a good understanding of electrical control and automated systems.
• A standard of technical skills of HND level or higher and the ability to demonstrate your expertise of working within a manufacturing environment.
• As a proactive and logical person, you can use problem solving, utilising the companies’ lean philosophies.
• Be available to support Manufacturing through the Engineering Call-Out process. You are compensated for this.
• The ability to work to critical timelines and effective interpersonal skills are key to high level performance in this position.
• As we work within a COMAH environment, alignment to these standards is critical.

The role requires site coverage between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm. While the standard working hours are 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, flexibility will be required during certain weeks to provide coverage until 6:00 pm when necessary.