About the role
AI summarisedSupervises manufacturing equipment engineering team in a biopharmaceutical consumables environment, ensuring equipment uptime, reliability, and compliance with cGMP and safety standards. Leads troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, new product introduction, and continuous improvement projects while mentoring technicians and engineers.
BiotechFull-timeGeneral
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.
- Ensure PM activities and schedules across all shift are executed correctly and according to schedule.
- Develop solutions to restore and sustain optimal functionality of biopharmaceuticals manufacturing equipment and systems.
- Source for alternative replacement for obsoleted parts and execute changes through change control.
- Improvement work: Participate and lead a process improvement team across departments. Facilitate an organization's systems and processes relating to continuous improvement and coach team members toward continuous improvement. Analyse work practices beyond own scope of work for innovation and improvement opportunities. Formulate the work instructions of each equipment type.
- Incident investigation and reporting: Lead a cross functional investigation team 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
- Expert in understanding on Electrical / Electronics / Mechanical / Pneumatic diagrams.
- Ensure compliance with cGMP, Quality, work safety instructions & practices at all times
- 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.
- Possess a positive attitude and sense of urgency.
- Meticulous, keen attention to details and organized.
- Candidate (for Shift Supervisor) must be able to work 12 hours rotating shifts (Monthly rotations from day to night and vice versa).
- Be agreeable to work normal shift when required.
- Diploma or equivalent in Engineering.
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical or Mechatronics will have added advantage.
- 10+ years for Diploma or 6+ years for Bachelor's Degree of working experience in manufacturing/production environment.
- Experience in GMP + ISO 13485, ISO 9001 Standard trained.
- Thorough knowledge of processes.