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Summary of the Facilities Maintenance Officer role

As the Facilities Maintenance Officer you will report directly to the Facilities Manager. You will be based at our Deeside facility in North Wales and work Monday-Friday 35 hours per week.

As the Facilities Maintenance Officer you will be responsible for facilities vendor management and maintenance scheduling with an emphasis on the administration of the current maintenance scheduling system and any upgrades to the system as they are introduced.

This is an administrative based facilities maintenance role but candidates with an engineering background with an electrical bias would be highly desirable.

Who Are We?

We are a fast-growing global pharmaceutical CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation), with more than 50 years’ experience in developing and manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). We are a proven and trusted partner to some of the world’s most innovative biotechs and leading pharmaceutical companies and are widely recognised for our expertise in complex and hazardous chemistry.

We are a dynamic business, employing more than 1300 talented and passionate people in the UK, US and Europe who together support our customers in bringing new medicines to market, improving and saving the lives of patients. We support our customers through the full product lifecycle from pre-clinical development right up to full scale commercial manufacturing and today we are proud to have built a culture of excellence in science and unrivalled service.

Your responsibilities

• Preparing permit to work (PTW) – collation of vendor insurances, risk assessments and methods statements.
• Planning, scheduling and coordinating service and equipment maintenance schedules.
• Acting as point of contact for visiting vendors, performing site inductions and completing permits to work following current site EHS guidelines.
• Costing, quoting and negotiating with vendors and subsequent purchase requisition preparation.
• Monitoring the department budget with regards to contract, maintenance and utilities spending.
• First line supervision for cleaning staff whether contracted or vendor supplied.
• Maintaining and calibrating work order preparation and making amendments as required to the works scheduler and tracking software.
• Producing and amending maintenance tasks, SOPs and associated supporting documentation in compliance with the current GMP Quality system.
• Being an active member of the work safety committee providing and implementing safety actions.
• Maintaining equipment history with the use of equipment files for the recording of any maintenance, calibrations and supplier documentation.
• Preparing monthly KPIs and delegate when required on behalf of the Engineering and Facilities Department at Quality review meetings.
• Deputising for the Facilities/Engineering Manager as required for purchasing and document approvals.
• Embodying our company values; Be Transparent, Be Willing, Be Reliable and Be Caring.

Why Consider Us?

Our collaborative and empowering culture is unique to us and is what really sets us apart as a business and this is built upon our four core values: Be Transparent, Be Reliable, Be Willing and Be Caring. We also run a variety of programmes across our sites to promote health, wellbeing and work life balance, in addition to supporting causes and charities close to our employees’ hearts, encouraging volunteering within the communities we are part of and even arranging socials, through our global social committees, to encourage team building and reward our team’s hard work.

At Sterling we promote mutual trust and respect regardless of your nationality, background, feelings, beliefs, gender or age. Our workforce, much like life, is made up of many different people with many different backgrounds, needs and perspectives. This is something we celebrate at Sterling, as it makes Sterling a better place to work and encourages innovation and collaboration.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including bonus, pension scheme, private healthcare, Engagement Hub, cycle to work scheme, death in service coverage, on-site health and wellbeing support including medical consultations and physiotherapy, 24/7 employee assistance programme, employee referral scheme, sports and social club as well as opportunity for training and further career development.
Be caring. Be transparent. Be willing. Be reliable.