Senior Technician

**Senior Technician (Production Maintenance)**

The Senior Technician is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting and repairing of product contact equipment to meet HSE, quality and productivity standards that is aligned with the Alcon guidelines for the execution of an effective equipment maintenance program. The Senior Technician will also be responsible for electro-mechanical knowledge upskilling of their peers.

Major Accountabilities
- Perform maintenance work in accordance to SOPs and Job Plans generated from the preventative and corrective maintenance management system.
- Ensure that all PM plans are executed without any overdue maintenance.
- Application of Maintenance Reliability principles for continuous improvement of the PM process vs. area of expertise (minimum expectation of x1 area; Compounding, Filling or Packaging).
- Carry out unscheduled trouble-shooting of critical Compounding, Filling and Packaging equipment within a GMP, high volume aseptic manufacturing environment. A minimum expectation of x1 area of primary expertise will be required as a Senior Technician.
- Ownership on the spare part requirements for the primary equipment(s) of expertise will be required. On-going assessment will be required using the bathtub curve of reliability principle and assessment of current stock holdings and part requirements.
- Aid in the sharing of electro-mechanical knowledge to other team members, while continuing to utilize other Mechanic, Engineers, Leads, etc. in addition to vendors to further develop oneself electrical, mechanical, trouble shooting and process knowledge for the Compound, Filling and Packaging area.
- Perform basic TT (temperature) and PT (pressure) calibrations for Compounding reactors, mix tank and Filling transfer lines and equipment.
- Supporting of daily Production activities (bottle/ carton format changes, etc.), using SMED best practices, to satisfy both product quality and output requirements.
- Strict adherence to cGMP and GDP (SOPs, PMs, CMs, etc.). Reporting any discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Provide verbal guidance in document correct trend (DCT), non-conformance investigations (NCI) and CAPA efforts as required with cross-functional team members.
- Strict adherence to all site safety requirements and focus on opportunities for improvement.
- Coordinate and supervise contractors / vendors in the execution of their duties to ensure maintenance services or equipment improvement projects (Installation and modification) are successfully carried out.
- Participation in 5S (& maintain), equipment and/ or process continuous improvement (CI) projects, with the use of system trend analysis where applicable.
- Ability to work and share overtime requirements as necessary within the Maintenance group to support PM, CM and Production efforts. The role will also require a rotating three-shift pattern.
- Maintain interface with all stakeholders (e.g. Fill & Pack and HSE) to ensure quality maintenance services are provided to support manufacturing operations.
- Shift reporting documentation and initiate / update / improvement of all job aids and one-point lessons of all Process and Packaging equipment's.
- Ensure medium and low risk level controlled supply item (CSI) incoming inspection, review of Material certificates/ COCs/COAs and the use at GMP environment upon SQA approval.
- Support plant equipment commissioning activities for any new installation as required.
- Any other tasks as and when assigned by Supervisor.

Education

Higher NiTEC/Master NiTEC or Diploma in related Technical Engineering

Experience