About the role
AI summarisedA Senior Manufacturing Equipment Engineer provides technical leadership in smart manufacturing systems within a high-volume consumables environment. Responsibilities include troubleshooting and maintaining optical, mechanical, electrical, and fluidics systems, driving improvements in equipment uptime and reliability, leading NPI and equipment performance enhancement initiatives, and mentoring technicians and engineers. The role requires working in rotating shifts in a manufacturing environment with compliance to cGMP, quality, and safety standards.
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Key Responsibilities
- Complete required training (e.g. cGMP, safety and work instructions, etc.) within a stipulated time frame
- Execute tasks strictly following cGMP, Quality, Safety and Work instruction requirements
- Ensure employees follow safety, quality requirement, and all applicable company policies at all times
- Ensure proper housekeeping and maintain cleanliness (6S) of the working area
- Timely report/ escalate any concerns (work-related or personal)
- Meet daily production schedule and performance expectation
- Able to take on additional tasks or responsibilities when required
- Competent to guide technician in performing maintenance activities
- Develop solutions to restore and sustain optimal functionality of manufacturing equipment and systems
- Demonstrates the ability to identify and qualify alternative replacements for equipment parts, executing required changes through established change control processes
- Participate and lead improvement initiatives across areas under broad direction. Facilitate an organization's systems and processes relating to continuous improvement (e.g. 6S) and coach team members toward continuous improvement. Analyse work practices beyond own scope of work for innovation and improvement opportunities with broad supervision. Develop work instructions for each type of equipment
- Lead a cross-functional investigation team and able to submit a formal report under broad supervision. Mentor team members on good investigation & reporting skills. Adapt different techniques and concepts in technical writing for effective engagement with individuals and/or teams
Requirements
- Advanced understanding on Electrical / Electronics / Mechanical / Pneumatic
- Ensure compliance with cGMP, Quality, work safety instructions & practices at all times
- Good project management skills
- Experience in working on automatic control systems
- Experience in troubleshooting PLC (e.g. Beckhoff or Allen Bradley PLC) and HMI process control automation system
- Experience working on Server/Client and Infrastructure will be an added advantage
- Ability to draft engineering drawings
- Complete tasks in a safe and efficient manner
- High level of discipline and integrity
- Able to undertake multiple tasks
- Able to undergo job rotation/ cross training
- Able to work in noisy environment with appropriate personal protection equipment (PPE)
- Able to work in chemical environment with appropriate personal protection equipment (PPE)
- Must be able to identify different colors for work purposes. In Illumina, we handle components/chemicals with different colors, and it is necessary to be able to differentiate and identify the correct components/chemicals (using visual) during operation
- Possess a positive attitude and sense of urgency
- Meticulous, keen attention to details and organized
- Be agreeable to work 12 hours (from 0800 to 2015 for the day shift and from 20