Engineering Technical Expert

Catalent is a global, high growth, public company and leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of the new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion is essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

We are looking for an Engineering Technical Expert to join the team.  This role is to provide technical support lead improvements to resolve manufacturing issues. This role will aid the Engineering and Operations teams to deliver the manufacturing schedule in a compliant, reliable and efficient manner.  On time and right first time. 

Catalent Pharma Solutions Swindon is the home of the Zydis Technology. The Zydis® ODT (orally dissolving tablet) fast-dissolve formulation, is a unique, freeze-dried oral solid dosage form that disperses almost instantly in the mouth – no water required. With more than 20 products launched in 60 countries, it continues to be the world’s best-in-class ODT technology.

The Role                   

To investigate and improve technical engineering related issues

Assist the engineering operations team in resolving breakdowns and issues.

Carrying out root cause analysis of plant downtime; target improvement to increase Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) to improve Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) whilst embedding a robust improvement philosophy within  the Production Engineering team to create specific targeted training improvement plans.

Delivering a clear vision/ plans for the team and being agile to evolving business needs.

Driving a customer centric mindset and be the point of contact for the customer

Assist the engineering operations team in resolving breakdowns and issues.

Encouraging collaboration within and outside of the team.

Developing team’s overall capability & providing coaching to team members

Driving accountability via use of KPI

Drive a culture of Safety, Compliance, Continuous Improvement & Inclusion

Provide Opex budget forecarts and secure Capex funding.

Manage Opex and Capex spend.

The Candidate

Full time served engineering apprenticeship, or equivalent qualifications- Required

Electrical / Mechanical engineer with extensive post apprenticeship experience in an Engineering role.

Electrical Engineering experience - highly advantageous

Working knowledge of tooling techniques and machining capabilities

Technical breakdown expertise

Production Engineering experience

Experience with Continuous Improvements

GMP experience

Good team player

Positions Benefits

Salary

Pension

Holiday Entitlement

Shift pattern: Day Shift Monday to Friday

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by local law.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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