Electro Mechanical Technician

Uniphar – Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialized services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions : Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Pharma – On Demand

The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties .

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Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.

Maintenance and repair of automated equipment and systems :

• Complete preventive maintenance on equipment
• Review and improve maintenance routines
• Carry out repairs to equipment when failures occur.
• Typical equipment will include the following;
• Automatic storage and retrieval system
• Printing and Labelling equipment
• Conveying systems
• Mechanical lifting / de-stacking machines
• Fridge and freezers
• Building services and facilities, including a HVAC systems
• Co-ordinate the electro-mechanical repairs to high-speed, PLC-controlled plant, handling and packaging equipment, also pneumatic control systems
• Co-ordinate the scheduling and performance of PM routines
• Support Production Team in achieving targets
• Update and Use of Handover procedure. Complete handover sheet and relay contents to Eng Mgr and incoming shift.
• Closely monitor line and machine performance and intervene on line as soon as any deterioration in performance occurs
• Work with equipment suppliers on new equipment and installations and modifications
• To be observant & work off your own initiative when a fault is detected & to take action based on your best judgment on whether to effect immediate repair or not
• Co-operate and participate fully in training and development in cross-skilling and other job-related competencies
• Update the maintenance management system &records of all changes, stores transactions made and work carried out
• Troubleshooting using PLC Programs
• Responsible for completion of planned work, shifts daily input of all works, parts booked out of stores and control of breakdowns
• Any other task within capability as determined by the Company
• Meet matrix targets and KPI’s determined by Internal customer
• Safety : Carry out regular safety audits of the equipment and systems in all sections of the plant, using whatever resources are necessary to effect corrections. Ensure that proper authorisations are obtained for all outside contract works and materials. Ensure that the Health and Safety regulations and policies are adhered to at all times and report any infringements of these regulations immediately.
• New Equipment install and commissioning : Complete installation and commissioning of new equipment. Support Validation team to complete equipment validation. Specify and recommend new equipment for install or replacement.
• Maintenance of facility systems and equipment : Support the facilities team in preventive maintenance and repair on mechanical / electrical equipment associated with a semi-automated warehouse
• Standard Operating Procedures : Write up engineering procedures for the equipment for which he / she is responsible.
• Quality : Execute all work in compliance with the relevant quality systems.
• Other responsibilities may be added as deemed necessary for the effective operation of the engineering team.

Job Types : Full-time, Permanent

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