Facilities Mechanical Technician

Repair & Maintenance work is focused on maintenance of building and grounds of an organization and the upkeep of equipment and supplies including:
Scheduling repairs renovations projects waste reduction improvements and safety inspections. Plans budgets and schedules facility modifications including estimates on equipment labor materials and other related costs.
Negotiating with outside vendors/contractors for supplies repairs and capital purchases
Overseeing services related to electric maintenance mechanics hydraulics carpentry and masonry substituting changing cleaning repairing and installing pieces components and equipment
Ensuring operating requirements building codes and safety regulations are met. Responsible for repairs adjustments and ongoing maintenance of facilities. Performs electrical painting and/or carpentry repairs of fixtures and equipment. Responsible for the design planning construction and maintenance of equipment machinery buildings and other facilities. Conducts periodic inspections to determine maintenance work required. Maintains all equipment necessary to perform work.

Requires broad knowledge of operational procedures and tools obtained through extensive work experience and may require vocational or technical education. May require the following proficiency: Works under limited supervision for routine situations. Provides assistance and training to lower level employees. Problems typically are not routine and require analysis to understand.

Position Overview:

• Responsible for all shift-based activities.
• Out of hours on-call and call out activities.
• Provide a broad base of engineering skills for effective technical support and maintenance of the facility.
• Ensure existing and new mechanical installations meet the site standards and specifications.
• Maintain the Deeside plant i.e. boilers AHUs control valves pumps chillers UPS Substations.
• Manage small to medium sized projects associated tasks and budgets.
• Lead or participate in Facilities Engineering and EHS activities and PM strategies and schedules.
• Follow legal corporate and site legislation and procedures.
• Identify justify and manage facilities and process improvement projects across the site to improve the performance of facilities-based equipment and deliver cost savings.
• Raise orders and check approve appropriate invoices via SAP.
• Understands principals of effective maintenance and is efficient at implementing the identified maintenance (PMs) to ensure compliance with engineering QA/QC GMP FDA Change Control EHS and FM standards.
• Provide support to site wide projects.
• Coordinating and overseeing contractors performing maintenance activities ensuring compliance with relevant regulations building codes and health and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Broad base of engineering skills for effective technical support and maintenance of equipment/processes and can develop appropriate skills in others by effective leadership.
• Ability to continuously improve own skill base through individual training assessment and education programmers and can develop appropriate skills in others by effective leadership
• Ability to analyze technical problems and develop appropriate solutions.
• Willingly embraces challenge and has a positive attitude to delivering results.
• Fosters the understanding of the client/customer needs and integrates engineering support in meeting their requirements.
• Understands the principles of effective maintenance and is effective at implementing the principles and maintaining the systems for full effectiveness.
• Judges the technical complexity of the task/project and matches appropriate resource to undertake accomplishment of that task/project.
• Identifies and implements continuous improvements to improve business efficiencies.
• Supports the effective integration of new machinery/technology and products/materials into Technical Operations.
• Ability to effectively communicate within the operations using tools and technologies available
• Ability to work to and set the highest standards in health and safety of self and colleagues. Capable of setting and maintaining the highest standards of housekeeping in all aspects of work.
• Understanding of a range of engineering machines/processes functions within manufacturing.
• Understanding and integration of customer needs to support business requirements.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in maintenance and installation of a broad range of services and facilities within a manufacturing / engineering environment.
• Experience of or capability to adapt to a multi-skilled flexible way of working with effective range of skills across mechanical electrical and other aspects.
• Experience of working with supervising and taking responsibility for external contractors and other service providers. Ability to support the effective operation of a Permit to Work system and other procedures and controls in support of this.
• Experience in working effectively within diverse cross functional team relationships
• Demonstrated ability to analyze technical problems and develop appropriate solutions
• Experience in developing successful new systems practices procedures within a Production/Maintenance Engineering technical operation
• Ability to judge the technical complexity of a task/activity and match appropriate resource to undertake successful accomplishment of that task/project.
• Experience of effective communication skills in verbal and written formats.
• Continuous and on-going development of skills and experience.
• Evidence of understanding and capability across mechanical electrical and control functions also basic building maintenance. Evidence of ability to communicate this knowledge to others.
• Ability to understand and interpret engineering drawings.
• Understanding of maintenance/technical support of diverse manufacturing processes. Thorough grasp of standards required to make this interface effective.

Qualifications/Education:

• A recognised qualification in mechanical engineering discipline or apprentice trained with relevant experience.

• An understanding of clean room or controlled environment controls i.e. HVAC Humidity and pressure Cascades etc.

• A working understanding of plant functions and maintenance.

• PC skills including Word Excel PowerPoint working towards MS Project and CAD.

• Previous experience in installation fault diagnosis testing and inspection of electrical systems.

• Demonstrate expertise in fault finding and problem solving.

• Demonstrated Project & Time Management skills including a track record of creating plans and meeting deadlines.

• Ability to balance multiple competing priorities.

• Experience completing site inductions Method Statements Risk Assessments and all site relevant permits

Working Conditions:

Site based role.

Manufacturing and packaging clean room plant room working area.

Monday Friday ; Double Day Shift (6am - 2pm // 1pm - 9pm).

On-call (rota based) for facilities based issues outside of core hours.

Special Factors

As part of the role you will be required to work out of hours and at weekends from time to time.

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About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch:

Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care Ostomy Care Continence Care and Infusion Care. With over 10000 colleagues we provide products and services in around 90 countries united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits from infection prevention treatment for hard to heal wounds at-risk skin and ulcerated tissue to supporting debilitating conditions improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatecs revenues in 2025 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit: .

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1