Production Engineering Technician
Production Engineering Technician
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford UK with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US APAC and Europe.
Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science molecular biology and applications informatics engineering electronics manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing by anyone anywhere!
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our engineering team as a Production Engineering Technician work on the worlds first and only nanopore DNA sequencer. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about new technology.
The Details...
Reporting to the Associate Director of Production Engineering youll work with production external equipment suppliers and wider Engineering teams to ensure equipment and production processes are maintained to a high standard with minimal stoppages within production. Youll provide hands on Engineering technical support for product manufacturing lines and process fault finding where needed or contacting equipment suppliers troubleshooting equipment issues.
Duties include but not limited to:
- Undertaking planned maintenance and calibration of production manufacturing equipment following a monthly schedule of activities.
- Providing support to resolve technical issues ensuring all investigation work is documented with the aim to reduce cost and improve reliability while complying with current quality standards.
- Reacting quickly to production quality issues in an efficient manner user standard procedures.
- Support new product/ process implementation and qualification activities.
- Managing calibration and maintenance schedules for area.
- Monitoring of current processing performance.
What Were Looking For...
Well expect you to have relevant qualifications in a mechanical engineering or equivalent and hands on experience in equipment maintenance and calibration within an automated/ semi-automated environment. Alongside your strong technical background youll be a strong communicator with ability of discussing prioritising organising activities with wider team.
This role will suit someone who enjoys working collaboratively with others from multi-disciplinary teams likes to take a hands-on approach and is a proactive problem solver. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a cutting-edge high-tech industry in a fast-paced working environment on exciting projects where you can make an impact.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus generous pension contributions private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks water features and a lake all of which make for a wonderful working environment.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender marital status race religion colour age disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full-Time
