Job Description

Astrea Bioseparations Ltd is a global bioseparations company specializing in the research, development and manufacture of advanced bioseparation products including chromatography adsorbents and columns. A wholly owned subsidiary of Gamma Biosciences, Astrea Bioseparations has R&D laboratories in Cambridge, UK and manufacturing facilities on the Isle of Man, British Isles and Stoughton, Massachusetts, making the company one of the largest volume affinity adsorbent manufacturers in the world.

Astrea Bioseparations is honored to support the biopharmaceutical industry with products and services that help bring lifesaving and improving medicines to market. Regardless of process scale, we are ready to build Purity by Design into each process to ensure quality and speed to market.

The company is now entering an exciting period of growth as we work towards enabling our customers to bring advanced therapies to market using state-of-the-art-purification nanofiber-based technology

Primary Function and Purpose:

• Using mechanical engineering, and extended electrical engineering skills.
• With minimal supervision set up and operate plant and equipment to enable production output to be met.
• Maintain and preserve the value of the Company\xe2\x80\x99s assets, fully contributing to planned preventative maintenance and calibration activities.
• Undertake installation and commissioning of plant and equipment associated with projects.
• Suggest and implement modifications to plant and equipment to improve performance and / or reliability.
• Ensure plant and equipment remains in a safe and proper condition at all times during both operating and maintenance periods.
• Attend to plant and equipment breakdowns and failures.

Principal responsibilities

Involvement in routine engineering activities to include:

• planning liaison and execution of planned preventative maintenance and calibration activities
• planning and execution of breakdown maintenance and repairs to meet the business needs of the Company;
• maximisation of plant and equipment uptime;
• preservation of the value of the Company\xe2\x80\x99s assets.

Provide an engineering resource to site wide projects, to include:

• Plant and equipment specification and design
• Project planning and contractor liaison
• Installation
• Commissioning

Adherence to statutory and corporate compliance requirements, to include;

• QA and production documentation and operational requirements
• Health and safety policies and procedures
• Assistance in workplace risk assessment exercises and remedial actions
• Environmental protection policies and procedures
• Participation in pollution prevention and waste minimisation initiatives

Ensure competency is maintained by;

• Identification of knowledge deficiencies along with remedial actions
• Maintenance of skills base through integration of craftsmen groups
• Provision of training during installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment

Provide a process control resource through the use of;

• Instrumentation and control including fault diagnosis, calibration techniques, interpretation of data
• PLC\'s including interrogation, ladder diagrams, programming skills
• Computer control systems including programming and manipulation
• Mechanical control systems including pneumatics, hydraulics and mechanical defect analysis

Qualifications and skills

• Min HNC (BTEC Level 4)/HND (BTEC Level 5) - Electrical & Electrical Control Engineering
• Apprenticeship Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical engineering/workshop experience

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