Technician

HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

About you:

Do you want to spend your working time making a positive difference to the world around you Are you passionate about supporting the medical and pharmaceutical industries and many more Do you care about keeping patients and people safe If so then a career with Steris AST as a Technician could be a great fit for you.

About Us:

At Steris AST we are the trusted experts intechnology-neutral sterilization services including radiation and gas modalities.

We offerelectron beam gamma X-ray ethylene oxide and vaporized hydrogen peroxide technologiesfor the purpose of product sterilization. Whether that product be a single use medicaldeviceconsumables in a hospital environment cosmetics and toiletries orindustrial products we make sureeverything that makes its way to an end user is safe for use or consumption.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Process Operator has responsibility for the operation of the processing facility allowing Customer supplied medical products to be received and processed in a timely manner at the STERIS Thorne facility. The Operations Dept should provide efficient and pro-active support to the site as part of a dedicated team and should embrace the brand values of STERIS AST. Process Operators are involved in the management of a process utilising hazardous materials (Ethylene Oxide) and the role includes several safety-critical tasks associated with the operation of safety-critical equipment.

• To ensure all pallets within the warehouse are suitably handled labelled and where applicable quarantined in line with site procedures
• To ensure that products that are found to have damage or deviate from site requirements are reported to the Quality Manager and are quarantined and clearly identified and investigated
• Ensure all Non-conformance forms are completed to the required standards.
• To alert the Operations Manager / Quality Manager to any process job related problems or discrepancies.
• Control product segregation standards.
• Ensure strict adherence to Site GMP Quality Standards.
• To assist in nonconformance and root cause analysis investigations and reporting.
• Ensure all damage is contained and reported using site procedures

• Ensure safety and site security standards are always maintained.

Duties - contd

• Ensure appropriate PPE and RPE is worn in designated areas of the facility.
• Ensure safety concerns are reported to the Site Management and escalated to the appropriate site safety representative with specific consideration made to concerns related to safety critical equipment.
• Participate in Health & Safety meetings/training as required.
• Undertake all tasks in accordance with the relevant work instruction to ensure safety standards are maintained.
• Ensure awareness of Major Accident Hazards associated with site and work activities and comply with all site expectations for the completion and management of safety-critical tasks.

Long Description

• Where required unloads Customer product is removed from delivery vehicles using the most appropriate MHE
• Assist in updating Plant SQDC board and attend daily PIT meetings
• To ensure customer product is built to the accepted sterilizer loads and load configuration documentation is completed.
• To make up biological indicators and insert into the customer product as per customer specification.
• Initiates pre-programmed sterilizer cycles having verified their correctness. Ensures monitoring equipment is always on-line and monitors cycle stages regularly to verify conformance to specification.
• Documents all stages of the process as per the standard operating procedures
• Retrieves biological indicators and any samples from the loads post processing. Verifies the number of biological indicators and/or samples retrieved and stores correctly.
• Process all Customers product in line with special instructions and processing parameters.
• Ensure the shift handover is completed every shift ensuring any relevant process safety quality or maintenance issue is correctly passed on to the next shift.
• Prepares processed loads for dispatch loads up fright containers and provides the driver with batch documentation associated with the load.

Duties contd

• Record and monitor consumable stock levels and request reorder when required.
• To ensure cleaning standards are maintained by following the cleaning procedure and associated cleaning forms are documented

• As part of the team constantly improve the Site 5S Standards.
• To ensure lean principles are maintained and continually reviewed/improved within the site.
• Complete standard work daily weekly and monthly.
• Assist in regular planned 5s Audits and action follow up.

Education Degree

Required Experience

Minimum of 1 years experience working in a manufacturing medical device or pharmaceutical environment.

Experience in similar operational role in a manufacturing business (production unit or plant)

Counterbalance FLT licence

Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Proficient with MS Office suite.

Perform all job duties consistent with the Code of Ethics and our Values and serve as a role model