Commissioning Engineer – Pharma Industry

Role Overview:

This role will have three main accountabilities and involves extensive travel:

• To conduct customer FAT’S by installing and validating Electrical and Mechanical products on our testing machines to ensure fit and functionality of tooling to machine and customer specification.
• To provide customer on-site project implementation for Site Acceptance Testing (SAT’s) of Electrical and Mechanical products. International travel will be a requirement of this role.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Commission’s new machinery as and when required and gets them fully operational within a minimal period of time;
• Conducts customer FAT’S to validate tooling to project specification as per the FAT schedule and works cross-departmentally to troubleshoot and resolve fit and functionality issues to meet project deadlines;
• Installs, configures and commissions new or modified products at customer’s facility (SAT) to ensure full functionality according to specifications when required;
• Provides customer on-site project implementation by troubleshooting, training, and customer support services and validates our product functionality and performance against the project deliverables;
• Coordinates problem resolution with customer and also company personnel to expedite repairs as and when required;
• Provides a communication link between the customer and company to help ensure that effective commissioning service is provided to the customer and ensures that company is alerted of all exceptions and/or events that might affect project deliverables.

Key Skills

• Excellent Customer facing skills.
• Strong organisational skills
• Strong engineering, electrical and programing skills
• Project management experience
• Excellent technical problem solving and fault finding skills.
• Ability to understand electrical and mechanical drawings
• Ability to work independently, with minimum direction and in pressure situations
• Ability to self-direct and self-motivate
• Strong communication skills through generation of reports
• The post will require a high level of flexibility to ensure the delivery of an effective and efficient service

Key Personal Attributes

• Personable
• Ability to work under own initiative
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexibility
• Understanding of mechanical and electrical systems.
• Attention to detail
• Proficiency in English language

Experience

• Diploma in mechanical and/or electrical engineering, with electrical proficiency or comparable degree
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience with packaging line equipment, preferably in pharmaceutical industry
• Experience with electro/mechanical control equipment.
• Understanding and troubleshooting machine related PLC programmes.