Operations Technician - Mechanical

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Position Description:
To provide support for the running of the POP/DEN production facility.
A member of the team responsible for the manufacture of products in a manner that allows
business objectives to be met.

This involves working without supervision and being responsible
for plant operation and all associated documentation.
Be responsible for the operation, sharing knowledge, coaching other team members.

Functions, Duties, Tasks
EH&S:


* Ensure activities of self and other team members are such as to meet all health, safety and environmental requirements.

Incidents must be reported, and where appropriate, investigated and acted upon immediately.


* Complete all housekeeping activities necessary to ensure a safe, clean working environment compliant with site health and safety, environmental and occupational hygiene requirements.


* Write and execute Permits to Work to ensure that both colleagues and contractors comply with requirements of the permits whilst carrying out identified activities.


* Attend EH & S and other safety related meetings.

Carry out environmental monitoring and recording as required.

Process/Equipment Operation:


* Perform day-to-day operation of manufacturing plant through computer controlled and manual operations meeting cGMP requirements and optimising schedule performance


* Identify any potential deviations and determine/take appropriate actions.


* Focus on the economy of operations, their efficiency and effectiveness such that yield, utilisation, losses, and expenses achieve or improve on targets.

Maintenance:


* Perform day-to-day repairs and fault finding.

Carry out PM tasks, breakdown repairs and condition monitoring as required.

This includes identifying any associated deviations and determining/taking the appropriate corrective actions.

Assist in the identification of optimum time scales for PMs, the execution of PM procedures and completion of any required documentation and/or computer system data entry.


* Review and utilise historical data on equipment from sources in archives...