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Engineering Technician - 12 month fixed term opportunities

🏒 AstraZeneca β€’ πŸ“ Macclesfield, England β€’ πŸ•’ Sep 14, 2026
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Position Overview & Specifications

Engineering Technician - 12 month fixed term opportunities

Location: Macclesfield, UK

Competitive salary and benefits

Opening date: 20/02/2023

Closing date: 05/03/2023

Do you have a passion and expertise in Engineering? Would you like to apply this in a company that follows the science, and turns ideas into life changing medicines...... Then AstraZeneca might be the place!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being ambitious, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person!

We currently have 12 month fixed term Engineering Technician roles available at our Macclesfield campus - located across multiple aseptic manufacture assets at different lifecycle stages. Macclesfield campus supplies products for most of the AstraZeneca therapy areas, to global markets and thus has great development opportunities.

This position offers excellent challenges, and great rewards for the successful candidates. Who will gain training and experience in a fast paced, lean focused aseptic manufacture environment.

What you'll do:

Based at an existing manufacture facility which is growing, and looking to develop manufacture processes and improve plant standards and reliability through continuous improvement ensuring production output for the future.

The position will be shift-based (7 day pattern) and aligned to existing engineering technician teams with extensive knowledge and understanding in plant systems already embedded within the teams.

Responsibilities:

Working within a highly compliant and regulated industry you will ensure that GMP, and SHE regulations are adhered to at all times.

You'll be responsible for maintaining various pharmaceutical assets and processes located in controlled clean environments as part of the aseptic manufacture facility. This will be in accordance with maintenance strategies and schedules of work.

You will be expected to provide timely response to breakdowns, customer requests, fault-finding and problem solving using approved methods and managing improvement activities as part of our continuous improvement culture.

You will progress project commissioning and continuous improvement activities in line with asset plans and customer requirements ensuring they align with Operational Qualification parameters and statutory requirements.

Using lean and manufacturing tools (such as RCM, RCA and CBM) you will actively participate in and deliver continuous improvement activities and projects.

Essential Requirements:
  • Recognised Engineering Apprenticeship or equivalent
  • ONC/HNC or equivalent in a relevant engineering field
  • Experience in Electrical, Mechanical and Instrumentation subject areas (Maintenance and Fault Finding)

Desirable Requirements:
  • Experience of working with automated machinery
  • Operating knowledge of procedures and compliance with GMP & SHE requirements
  • Familiar with CMMS (SAP PM) Knowledge of IT systems where appropriate e.g. Drawing/Document Management Systems, Microsoft office, Building Management Systems, PCs, PLCs
  • Knowledge of Reliability Centred Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis and of Continuous Improvement
  • Knowledge of Project / Change management

This role is internally aligned to SA91 Grade 10

There are so fantastic employee benefits that AstraZeneca offer. AstraZeneca can offer you a competitive salary, private healthcare, a generous holiday allowance, phenomenal training and development opportunities, and much more.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

Interested? Come and join our journey.

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