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Job Description
Job Purpose:
The co-ordination and implementation of projects to support manufacturing requirements.
Person Profile:
Project Engineer
The candidate should have a degree (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline and 2-3 years' experience in a medium sized manufacturing environment, preferably in a project engineering or similar role.
General Duties and Responsibilities:
- To define a detailed project scope through meetings/discussions
- To co-ordinate all projects activities, including design, specification, sourcing, purchasing, installation, commissioning and validation activities
- To prepare Memos of Justification for capital expenditure approval
- To maintain and control project costs and schedule
- To liaise with the HSE Department and to pro-actively ensure all Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are carried out according to HSE Regulations and Plans.
- To design and develop equipment to meet and exceed production requirements
- To modify equipment for process upgrades
- To arrange the provision of facilities, including equipment and utilities for new products, processes or upgrades
- To identify areas where new technologies can be used to improve quality/efficiency/service
- To develop specifications for equipment or facility design/supply
- To arrange acceptance testing of equipment
- To provide technical support for projects from other departments
- To supervise technicians, contractors, and service personnel during installation and commissioning
Specific Experience Requirements:
- Use of Permit to Work System or other Safe Systems of Work to control engineering activities
- Ownership for preparation of capital expenditure request and cost estimates
- Ownership, management and reporting of part or complete project budget spend
Preparation of key project documents:
Project Scope, User Requirement Specification, Vendor Audit Reports
- Responsibility for direct supervision of vendor engineers and contractors during engineering works on single or multiple capital projects
Desirable Experience Requirements:
- Bulk Tabletting Manufacturing to include all process steps, i.e. Granulation, Mixing, Compaction, Coating.
- High speed tablet packaging to include all packaging elements i.e. Blistering, Sachetting, Cartoning, Labelling, Printing, Vision Systems and other associated technologies.
- Topicals cream manufacture to include all process steps i.e. Compounding, homogenisation, tube filling and cartoning
- Sterile fill finish of liquid into vials, ampoules to include all process elements, i.e. Compounding, sterile filtration, filter integrity testing and filling.
- Sterilisation i.e. Porous Load Autoclave, Terminal Sterilisation, Dry Heat Sterilisation
- Design and fabrication of process equipment for use in sterile manufacturing, i.e. vessels, filling parts etc.
- Small scale civil and construction/building works i.e. drains, excavations, site services, landscaping, renovations, alterations and decoration within a pharmaceutical facility.